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Books
Experimental magazines, absurdist writing and new fiction, the publishing highlights of 2011
Music
From retro to repro, and beyond
Design
A survey of modern living in California, biennials in Asia and a new generation of design studios
Film
The best movies and artists’ films of 2011
Artist’s Block
What can artists learn from writers?
The Power of One
The strange allure of amulets
Remains of the Day
What a show in New York says about artistic freedom in Lebanon
Get ’em Whilst They’re Hot! They’re Lovely!
As the savage frosts of recession threaten the gilded lilies of art, frieze speaks to a new wave of young, dynamic gallerists about their hopes and dreams ...
Architecture
From housing design in Japan to urban interventions in Caracas, architecture in 2011 was characterized by a rethinking of public and private space
The Way They Looked at Each Other
What two photographs taken by a Spanish judge in Baghdad reveal about the impossibility of untangling a moment in the past
Radical Bleak
Art’s conflicted relationship with the Arab Spring
Chris Dercon: Interview
Jennifer Higgie and Sam Thorne talk to the new director of Tate Modern about the museum’s plans for the future
And Then?
A year of unrest in the UK
Useful Art
Kathy Noble talks to Tania Bruguera about the artist’s long-term project in New York, Immigrant Movement International, and what it means not to ‘represent politics but to create political situations’
La Comédie Humaine
A golden age of television
The Long Nineties
Revisiting art’s social turn and the 1990s – the decade that has yet to end
Words & Deeds
The factors behind the mayor of Berlin’s controversial decision to fund the exhibition ‘Made in Berlin'
Top Secrets
Advocate or Informer? Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
Going Dutch
Reasons and responses: the cuts to arts funding in the Netherlands
Ten Years
Remembering 9/11: how exhibitions in New York and Berlin commemorated the tenth anniversary of the attacks
Pacific Standard Time
Stretching across 70 museums and galleries, ‘Pacific Standard Time’ is an unprecedented collaboration that traces different histories of Southern Californian art between 1945 and 1980
Painthing on the Möve: Chicago Imagists 1966–1973
Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
By Morgan Quaintance
Fourth Moscow Biennale
Various venues, Moscow, Russia
By Valentin Diaconov
Francis Upritchard
Kate MacGarry, London, UK
By Zoe Pilger
James Richards
Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
By George Barber
Alessandro Pessoli
Collezione Maramotti , Reggio Emilia, Italy
By Marinella Paderni and Translated by Rosalind Furnes
Andrea Romano
Gasconade, Milan, Italy
By Vincenzo Latronico
Moyra Davey
greengrassi , London, UK
By Paul Teasdale
Duncan Campbell
Hotel, London, UK
By Max Andrews
Nina Beier
Kunsthal Charlottenborg , Copenhagen, Denmark
By Jacob Lillemose
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990
Victoria & Albert Museum London, London, UK
By Owen Hatherley
Melanchotopia
Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
By Esperanza Rosales
Vincent Vulsma
Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, Netherlands
By Nick Aikens
Donna Huddleston
Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam, Netherlands
By Tom Morton
Jikken Kobo
Bétonsalon, Paris, France
By Sam Thorne
Public Folklore
Grazer Kunstverein , Graz, Austria
By Bettina Brunner
John Armleder
Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland
By Quinn Latimer
Paweł Althamer
Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
By Mark Prince
Laura Owens
Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
By Mark Prince
Third Thessaloniki Biennale
Various venues , Thessaloniki, Greece
By Tom Morton
Camulodunum
Firstsite, Colchester, UK
By James Cahill
Nicholas Hatfull
Peles Empire, London, UK
By Isobel Harbison
Videobrasil
Various venues, Sao Paulo, Brazil
By Dan Fox
Living as Form
Essex Street Market, New York, USA
By Jens Hoffman
La Carte d’Après Nature
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
By David Reisman
Nicola Tyson
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
By Agnieszka Gratza
Alexandra Bircken and Doreen McPherson
Studio Voltaire, London, UK
By Kathy Noble
Steve Bishop & Dan Shaw-Town
Christopher Crescent, London, UK
By Martin Herbert
Raoul De Keyser
David Zwirner, New York, USA
By Eugenia Bell
Sadie Benning
Participant Inc., New York, USA
By Kristin M. Jones
Asco: Elite of the Obscure
LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
By Gabriela J
John M. Miller
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
By Annette Leddy
Mel Bochner
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, USA
By Carmen Winant
Mika Tajima
Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
By Lara Wisniewsk
Dan Gunn
Monique Meloche Gallery , Chicago, USA
By Jason Foumberg
Mao Tongqiang
China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China
By Angie Baecke
Juan Davila
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
By Nicola Har
Annika Eriksson
NON, Istanbul, Turkey
By Joseph Redwood-Martinez
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