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
Current Issue
January-February
Architecture
From housing design in Japan to urban interventions in Caracas, architecture in 2011 was characterized by a rethinking of public and private space
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
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
Essex Street Market
Living as Form
Matthew Marks Gallery
La Carte d’Après Nature
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
Nicola Tyson
Studio Voltaire
Alexandra Bircken and Doreen McPherson
Christopher Crescent
Steve Bishop & Dan Shaw-Town
David Zwirner
Raoul De Keyser
Participant Inc.
Sadie Benning
LACMA
Asco: Elite of the Obscure
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 1995
Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam
With his major survey opening tomorrow at the Hayward Gallery, London, Michael Bracewell on David Shrigley from issue 25, Nov-Dec 1995.
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