May #10

Conceived as a collective space in which to develop thoughts and confront positions on artistic production, May magazine examines, quaterly, contemporary art practice and theory in direct engagement with the issues, contexts and strategies that construct these two fields. An approach that could be summed up as critique at work – or as critique actively performed in text and art forms alike.

Featuring essays, interviews, art works and reviews by artists, writers and diverse practitioners of the arts, the magazine also intends to address the economy of the production of knowledge – the starting point of this reflection being the space of indistinction between information and advertisment typical of our time. This implies a dialogue with forms of critique produced in other fields.

IN THIS ISSUE:

Preface
— MAY
How to Do the History of French Theory in the Visual Arts: A New York Story
— JOHN RAJCHMAN
From Time to Space: When Critical Theory Turns Global
— FRANÇOIS CUSSET
Meeting Jean-François Chevrier
— PAUL SZTULMAN
54, boulevard Raspail
— STEFAN GERMER

REVIEWS
“Biarritz by Georges Ancely
Photographs 1880–1895”
— NICOLAS CECCALDI
“Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language”
— TOM MCDONOUGH
“Because Thought is Dark!”
— CLARA SCHULMANN
Peripheral Passages.
On John Knight’s Curb Appeal
— ANDRÉ ROTTMANN
Matisse Rebooted
— CLÉMENT AURIEL