Spring 2024 Issue
MACK recently published Sofia Coppola: Archive 1999–2023, the first publication to chronicle Coppola’s entire body of work in cinema. Comprised of the filmmaker’s personal photographs, developmental materials, drafted and annotated scripts, collages, and unseen behind-the-scenes photography from all of her films, the monograph offers readers an intimate look into the process behind these films.
Kirsten Dunst on the set of The Virgin Suicides (1999), directed by Sofia Coppola. Photo: Sofia Coppola, from Archive (MACK, 2023)
Kirsten Dunst on the set of The Virgin Suicides (1999), directed by Sofia Coppola. Photo: Sofia Coppola, from Archive (MACK, 2023)
Art making, and in Sofia’s case specifically film making, exists largely outside the realm of words. The work she creates comes into being by harnessing a kind of visual intuition with a rhythm and form that is mysterious and undulating, even tidal.
The set of The Bling Ring (2013), directed by Sofia Coppola. Photo: Sofia Coppola, from Archive (MACK, 2023)
Sofia Coppola on the set of Marie Antoinette (2006) directed by Sofia Coppola. Photo: Sofia Coppola, from Archive (MACK, 2023)
Scarlett Johansson on the set of Lost in Translation (2003), directed by Sofia Coppola. Photo: Andrew Durham, from Archive (MACK, 2023)
With each film, she conjures a magical world that is both complex and quiet. In the process, she finds her own language that is separate from the dominant strain, in harmony with the imagery.
Bill Murray on the set of Lost in Translation (2003), directed by Sofia Coppola. Photo: Sofia Coppola, from Archive (MACK, 2023)
Elle Fanning on the set of The Beguiled (2017), directed by Sofia Coppola. Photo: Andrew Durham, from Archive (MACK, 2023)
This book is a peek into Sofia’s instrument at work.
—Rainer Judd
Photos: courtesy the artist and MACK
The “Gagosian & Film” supplement also includes: “Adaptability,” “Not Running, Just Going,” “Whit Stillman,” “On Frederick Wiseman”, and “You Don’t Buy Poetry at the Airport: John Klacsmann and Raymond Foye”
Sofia Coppola, Sofia Coppola: Archive 1999–2023 (MACK, 2023)
David Cronenberg’s film The Shrouds made its debut at the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in France. Film writer Miriam Bale reports on the motifs and questions that make up this latest addition to the auteur’s singular body of work.
The mind behind some of the most legendary pop stars of the 1980s and ’90s, including Grace Jones, Pet Shop Boys, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Yes, and the Buggles, produced one of the music industry’s most unexpected and enjoyable recent memoirs: Trevor Horn: Adventures in Modern Recording. From ABC to ZTT. Young Kim reports on the elements that make the book, and Horn’s life, such a treasure to engage with.
Louise Gray on the life and work of Éliane Radigue, pioneering electronic musician, composer, and initiator of the monumental OCCAM series.
Tracing the history of white noise, from the 1970s to the present day, from the synthesized origins of Chicago house to the AI-powered software of the future.
Ariana Reines caught a plane to Barcelona earlier this year to see A Sea of Music 1492–1880, a concert conducted by the Spanish viola da gambist Jordi Savall. Here, she meditates on the power of this musical pilgrimage and the humanity of Savall’s work in the dissemination of early music.
Dan Fox travels into the crypts of his mind, tracking his experiences with goth music in an attempt to understand the genre’s enduring cultural influence and resonance.
Charlie Fox takes a whirlwind trip through the Jim Shaw universe, traveling along the letters of the alphabet.
On the heels of finishing a new novel, Scaffolding, that revolves around a Lacanian analyst, Lauren Elkin traveled to Metz, France, to take in Lacan, the exhibition. When art meets psychoanalysis at the Centre Pompidou satellite in that city. Here she reckons with the scale and intellectual rigor of the exhibition, teasing out the connections between the art on view and the philosophy of Jacques Lacan.
Dieter Roelstraete, curator at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago and coeditor of a recent monograph on Rick Lowe, writes on Lowe’s journey from painting to community-based projects and back again in this essay from the publication. At the Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, during the 60th Biennale di Venezia, Lowe will exhibit new paintings that develop his recent motifs to further explore the arch in architecture.
Essence Harden, curator at Los Angeles’s California African American Museum and cocurator of next year’s Made in LA exhibition at the Hammer Museum, visited Lauren Halsey in her LA studio as the artist prepared for an exhibition in Paris and the premiere of her installation at the 60th Biennale di Venezia this summer.
Michael Cary explores the history behind, and power within, Nan Goldin’s video triptych Sisters, Saints, Sibyls. The work will be on view at the former Welsh chapel at 83 Charing Cross Road, London, as part of Gagosian Open, from May 30 to June 23, 2024.
Published in March, Cynthia Carr’s latest biography recounts the life and work of the Warhol superstar and transgender trailblazer Candy Darling. Combining scholarship, compassion, and a rich understanding of the world Darling inhabited, Carr’s follow-up to her biography of the artist David Wojnarowicz elucidates the incredible struggles that Darling faced in the course of her determined journey toward a more glamorous, more honest, and more tender world. Here, Carr tells Josh Zajdman about the origins of the book, her process, and what she hopes readers glean from the story.