Features

Poster Child for a New Generation
At sixty-three, Allen Ruppersberg is finally getting his due
by Merrily Kerr 

Tongue in Radical Chic
The guilty pleasures of looking at Matthew Brannon's slyly subversive work
by Megan Ratner

An Architect's Artist
Kate Shepherd's stripped-down formalism gives value to the hand-drawn line within an otherwise architectonic landscape
by Bridget Goodbody

Beyond Drawing
L.A. artists honor the legacy of Vija Celmins, on the occasion of a drawings retrospective
by Leslie Jones, with contributions by Edgar Arceneaux, Joe Biel, Andrea Bowers, Russell Crotty, Tomory Dodge, Karl Haendel, Terri Phillips, and Fran Siegel 

Columns

The Gego Effect
Why the death of Latin American art is good for art
by Lyle Rexer 

Breathing Light into Architecture
Luisa Lambri's photographs give new life to modernist icons
by Jean Dykstra

Paperback for the People
Spain explores the future of DIY artist publishing
by Sarah Valdez

The Dancing Camel
Urs Fischer explains how he transformed a cigarette pack into a mesmerizing kinetic sculpture
by Reena Jana