Blau International #2 (pink)

On the cover: a 30 pages special honoring the late, visionary Michel Majerus with contributions by – among others – Christopher Wool and Takashi Murakami.

Also in this issue: a conversation with Betye Saar, Nobel-Prize-Winner Peter Handke on Nicolas Poussin, Christina Quarles reconfiguring the body politics of painting, the world premiere of John Baldessari’s last works with an essay by his former student David Salle, Bruno Bischofberger showing and talking alpine farmer’s armoires, Ian Buruma on the the kinky encounter of Hans Bellmer and Butoh mastermind Tatsumi Hijikata, Andy Hall meeting fellow super collector Tom Hill, François Halard breaking into Michelangelo Antonioni’s and Monica Vitti’s doomed Love nest on Sardinia, Yayoi Kusama’s lost performance, Sterling Ruby on the crucifixes of Lucio Fontana, Siri Hustved on Munch’s “Puberty“ and the eternal mysteries of Pieter Saendramen’s church interiors.