Architecture
Looking Back
From housing design in Japan to urban interventions in Caracas, 2011 has been a year for re-thinking public space by Niklas Maak and Joseph Grima
The Long Nineties
Revisiting art's social turn and the 1990s – the decade that has yet to end by Lars Bang Larsen
Books
Looking Back
Experimental magazines, absurdist writing and new fiction, David Senior and Emily Stokes list their publishing highlights of 2011
Useful Art
Kathy Noble talks to Tania Bruguera about the artist's long-term project, Immigrant Movement International
Interview: Chris Dercon
Jennifer Higgie and Sam Thorne talk to the new director of Tate Modern about the museum's plans for the future
Design
Looking Back
Modern living in California, biennials in Asia and a new generation of design studios, Eugenia Bell and Beatrice Galilee consider the best of the past year
The Way They Looked at Each Other
Artist Project
Artist Mario Garcia Torres considers the impossibility of untangling a moment in the past
Island Nation
After the tsunami: the role of disaster in Japan's artistic psyche by Philip Brophy and Kyoji Maeda
Pacific Standard Time
Stretching across 70 museums and galleries, an unprecedented survey of Southern Californian art between 1945 and 1980 by Sam Thorne and Stacey Allan
Third Thessaloniki Biennale
Review
Tom Morton considers the third iteration of the biennial: 'Old Intersections - Make it New'
Remains of the Day
What a show in New York says about artistic freedom in Lebanon by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
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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 ...
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
Thomas Dane Gallery
Painthing on the Möve: Chicago Imagists 1966–1973
Various venues
Fourth Moscow Biennale
Kate MacGarry
Francis Upritchard
Chisenhale Gallery
James Richards
Collezione Maramotti
Alessandro Pessoli
Gasconade
Andrea Romano
greengrassi
Moyra Davey
Hotel
Duncan Campbell
Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Nina Beier
Victoria & Albert Museum London
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990
Witte de With
Melanchotopia
Stedelijk Museum Bureau
Vincent Vulsma
Galerie Juliètte Jongma
Donna Huddleston
Bétonsalon
Jikken Kobo
Grazer Kunstverein
Public Folklore
Galerie Andrea Caratsch
John Armleder
Deutsche Guggenheim
Paweł Althamer
Kunstmuseum
Laura Owens
Various venues
Third Thessaloniki Biennale
Firstsite
Camulodunum
Peles Empire
Nicholas Hatfull
Various venues
Videobrasil
Blog
Postcard from Cairo: “Cairo Documenta 2”
The debut of Cairo Documenta in December 2010 garnered much attention from the city’s intimate art scene, with the show’s rough exhibition space in an…
Current Shows
Lalit Kala Akademi
Vivan Sundaram by Hemant Sareen
Ludwig Muzeum
Yona Friedman by Robert Barry
Cobra Museum of Modern Art
Nathaniel Mellors by Irene de Craen
FRAC Centre
Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea by Charles Reeve
Centre d'art contemporain
Les Marques Aveugles by Robert Barry
migros museum für gegenwartskunst
Florian Germann by Aoife Rosenmeyer
Galerie Jocelyn Wolff
Franz Erhard Walther by Caroline Soyez-Petithomme
P/////AKT – platform for contemporary art
Christian Friedrich by Irene de Craen
Museo Marino Marini
João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva by Barbara Casavecchia
ShanghART Gallery
MadeIn Company by Colin Chinnery
Signal Center for Contemporary Art
Kostis Velonis by Matthew Rana
Today Art Museum
Jannis Kounellis by Iona Whittaker
Galerija Gregor Podnar
Antic Measures by Mark Prince
Frieze Magazine
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival London, 21-30 March http://t.co/WwB4oA6w 19 Films Address Economic Inequality & Consequences Worldwide
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'Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.' Marcel Duchamp
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La Cité Radieuse, the housing estate in Marseille built by Le Corbusier, has been damaged by fire. http://t.co/T8bj1LKi
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frieze archive: Guy Debord & the connections between terrorist strategies, the networked 21st century & the avant-garde http://t.co/HZb5Zo2c
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David Shrigley's app. Is he channeling Martin Creed? http://t.co/bxwbRwuX
From the Archives
From September 2007
Hanne Darboven
With her solo show on until 18 March at Camden Arts Centre, London, a review of Hanne Darboven's Wunschkonzerte, Opera 17A & B and 18A & B from issue 109, Sept 2007.
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