Queer Caucus for Art Newsletter
May 2005
NEW PUBLICATIONS (continued)

Smithson, Robert. Robert Smithson. Organized by Eugenie Tsai with Cornelia Butler; additional essay by Thomas Crow; texts by Alexander Alberro, Suzaan Boettger, Mark Linder, Ann Reynolds, Jennifer L. Roberts, Richard Sieburth and Robert A. Sobieszek; interview with Robert Smithson by Moira Roth. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, in association with University of California Press, 2004. 280 p. ISBN 0-520-24408-7 ISBN 0-520-24409-5 (pbk) Catalog of exhibition at MOCA, Dallas Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art; includes illustrations of but no text on his homoerotic collages

Stinson, Susan, “Hidden powers,” Lambda book report, v. 13, no. 04/05 (Nov./Dec. 2004), p. 36. Review of Life mask by Emma Donoghue (Harcourt)

Straub, Drew B., “Stage sets for loneliness: Peter Hujar’s photographic landscapes contained the seeds of their own mortality,” Gay city news (NYC), Jan. 17-Feb. 2, 2005, p. 17. On “Peter Hujar: Night” at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

Straube, Trenton, “Black and tight: photographer and stylist Rick Castro brings bondage, hustlers and furries to the masses,” HX, issue 707 (Mar. 25, 2005), p. 44-47, with cover and additional ill. by Castro

Stretch, Bonnie Barrett, “A scandalous life,” Art news, v. 104, no. 5 (May 2005), p. 100. Review of Eakins revealed: the secret life of an American artist by Henry Adams (Oxford University Press), but apparently not the revelation we had hoped for in this book

Strong, Lester, “Notes on InterseXions,” CLAGS news, v. 15, no. 1 (winter 2005), p. 10

Strong, Lester, “Robert Irwin: photographer of the season,” The gay & lesbian review, v. 12, no. 2 (Mar.-Apr. 2005), p. 30

Sullivan, Edward J., and Nelly Perazzo. Emilio Pettoruti (1892-1971). With a text by Mario H. Gradowczyk, chronology by Patricia Artundo. Buenos Aires: Fundación Pettoruti, Asociación Amigos del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Marca Editoria; distributed by Asuntoimpreso, 2004. 255 p. ISBN 95-8890908

Tallmer, Jerry, “A pioneering lesbian photo-journalist: before an early death, Annemarie Schwarzenbach captured the pre-World War II era,” Gay city news (NYC), Mar. 17-23, 2005, p. 38. On the show and symposium at Queens College

Taylor, Sue, “A new Catholic iconography: [review of] Postmodern heretics: the Catholic imagination in contemporary art, by Eleanor Heartney, New York, Midmarch Press, 2004, 192 p., $24 paper,” Art in America, Feb. 2005, p. 39, 41

Tress, Arthur. Facing up. Boston: Top Choice Press, 2005. ISBN 0-9761396-7-7 ($1,250) Signed and numbered limited reprint edition of 1980 publication, with 2 silver prints

Turnbaugh, Douglas, “Oui! Oui! Waugh!” The archive: the journal of the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, no. 15 (winter 2005), p. 10. Review of Out/lines: underground gay graphics from before Stonewall (2002) and Lust unearthed: vintage gay graphics from the DuBek collection (2004), both by Thomas Waugh and published by Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver

Twombly, Cy. Cy Twombly, fifty years of work on paper. Curated by Julie Sylvester, with essays by Sidney Schama and Roland Barthes. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2005. ISBN 0874271460 (pbk) ISBN 1933045035 (hardcover by Schirmer/Mosel) Revised ed. of Cy Twombly at the Hermitage

Wados, Walter, “Hello, big guy,” Lambda book report, v. 13, no. 04/05 (Nov./Dec. 2004), p. 46-47. Review of Il gigante: Michelangelo, Florence, and the David 1492-1504 by Anton Gil (Thomas Dunne Books) and I, Michelangelo by Georgia Illetschko (Prestel)

Walton, Pam, “Nan Golub: the last forty years,” The archive: the journal of the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, no. 15 (winter 2005), p. 11-12

Warman, Jonathan, “From bois to men,” HX magazine, issue 701 (Feb. 11, 2005), p. 26-30 and cover illus. On “Asian & masculine” photos by Troy Phillips, at National Arts Club, New York

Wei, Lilly, “‘East Village USA’ [at] New Museum of Contemporary Art, through March 19,” Art news, v. 104, no. 2 (Feb. 2005), p. 132

Wei, Lilly, “The eternal joy of an attentive mind,” Art in America, Mar. 2005, p. 102-107. Agnes Martin and the 2004-2005 shows at PaceWildenstein and Dia:Beacon

Weinstein, Steve, “Rough trade paperback,” New York blade, Apr. 29, 2005, p. 23. On Rough gods by Michael Alago

West, Gabriella, “Of strength and survival,” Lambda book report, v. 13, no. 06-08 (Jan./Feb./Mar. 2005), p. 35-36. Review of Death in reverse: a love story by Ruth L. Schwartz (Michigan State University Press) and The summer of her baldness by Catherine Lord (University of Texas Press)

Wigley, Mark, “A man for four seasons,” Artforum, v. 43, no. 9 (May 2005), p. 35-36. On Philip Johnson

Wilcox, T. J., “Personal affects: T.J. Wilcox curates,” Artforum, v. 43, no. 8 (Apr. 2005), p. 164-171. Wilcox selects 27 works, with curatorial quotes by Wilcox and short essay by Scott Rothkopf

Wilson, Ann, “A tribute to Agnes Martin, 1912-2004,” Art fairs international, v. 1, %3/4 (2005), p. 44

Wilson, Michael, “Jesper Just [at] Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York,” Artforum, v. 43, no. 7 (Mar. 2005), p. 237

Wise, Michael Z., “An architect with ‘silken antennae’,” Art news, v. 104, no. 3 (Mar. 2005), p. 50. Memorial essay on Philip Johnson

Woodward, Richard B., “A mind often at war with itself,” Art news, v. 104, no. 3 (Mar. 2005), p. 52. Essay on Susan Songag, illustrated with portrait by Peter Hujar

Young, Alison. Judging the image: art, value, law. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. 186 p. (Transformations: thinking through feminism) ISBN 0-415-30183-1 (hbk) ISBN 0-415-30184-X (pbk : $27.95) Includes text on works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ron Athey, Robert Mapplethorpe, and other relevant topics

Note about book reviews and listings:

If you are interested in reviewing any of the books or websites listed above, please contact the editors. Photocopies of many of the articles listed here are available from the editors for a month or two after the date of this issue. Send your request for a photocopy, with street mailing address, to Sherman Clarke at the address in the listing of officers on page two.


Queer Caucus for Art newsletter, May 2005
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