September ArtReview now online

Ryan Trecartin

His manic hyperreality TV soap operas have made him one of America’s most talked-about young artists; but are we looking at the real world or another planet? By Jonathan T.D. Neil

Machine Project

Bringing speed-metal recitals, free haircuts and slumber parties to their city’s art museums, Los Angeles collective Machine Project is developing a new, affirmative approach to institutional critique. By Holly Myers

Ragnar Kjartansson

Painting the same model for months on end, singing a single romantic song for hours or assembling music from parts played by solo musicians stranded on mountains, Ragnar Kjartansson makes art that’s as au fait with endurance as any first-generation performance artist, and several times more fun. But there’s more to his mischievous exaggeration of creative obsession than meets the eye. By Laura McLean-Ferris

Beijing

Nothing stays still in Beijing. Traditional buildings get torn down, and artists priced out of studio spaces are forever in search of new ones. It’s a disorienting situation. So what better response than a vastly expensive lavatory and a room full of fog? By Charles Darwent

Ryan Trecartin, Lizzy Fitch and Soda Pop run amok in I-Be Area (2007), plus, in HD, Trecartin’s Sibling Topics (section a), K-CorealNC.K (section a) and P.opular S.ky (section ish) (all 2009). Montage of black-and-white photographs of Ragnar Kjartansson’s The End – Venezia (2009), plus a clip from Kjartansson’s New York performance in Schumann Machine (2008) and
an excerpt from The Man (2010)

Football + art = the extra beautiful game. Yesssss! – highlights from ArtReview: The Cup,
a five-a-side football tournament produced in collaboration with Nike: see Juergen Teller save penalties, Idris Khan jink, Hurvin Anderson pass, Ori Gersht run, Mike Nelson dribble and Michael Landy keeping it real in a film produced by Chino Moya and Tom Haines.