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Sofía Córdova, Green is A Solace,
A Promise of Peace (where small birds hide and dodge and lift their plaintive rallying cries) (detail), 2022, taxidermied doves, parakeets, and canaries, hair dye, brass, birch wood,
dimensions variable.

EDITOR’S LETTER

By Tina Rivers Ryan

Cover of RESIST COLONIAL POWER BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY (PTP, 2024).

By DeForrest Brown, Jr.

Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor, No Other Land, 2024, 4K video, color, sound, 96 minutes.

Very Delta, 2022–, still from a video podcast on YouTube. Episode 38, “Are You Coco for Peru Like Me?” Delta Work.

By Bradford Nordeen

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Appropriate, 2023. Rehearsal view, Hayes Theater, New York, November 28, 2023. Toni (Sarah Paulson). Photo: Joan Marcus.

PERFORMING ARTS

Populous, Sphere, 2024, Las Vegas, February 1, 2024. Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images.

Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader, InEx, 2024, two-channel animated 4K video, color, sound, 6 minutes.

By Jerome Byron

Lookbook page for Sophie Gontard’s 2024 “I find men’s clothing Funny” Institut Français de la Mode graduate collection. Photos: Sophie Gontard.

By Matthew Linde

An AlphaFold predicted protein structure, 2023.

By Sarah Meyohas

Raven Chacon, For Four (Caldera), 2024, four-channel 4K video, color, sound, 6 minutes 8 seconds.

THE ARTISTS’ ARTISTS

By Jes Fan, Ryan Gander, Petrit Halilaj, Joan Jonas, Mataaho Collective, Archie Moore, Jordan Nassar, Adam Pendleton, Asad Raza, Marianna Simnett, Rose B. Simpson, Cameron Spratley, Carmen Winant, Leyla Yenirce, Yuan Goang-Ming

Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) on the set of Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Culver Studios, Culver City, CA, 1989. Photo: Brian D. McLaughlin/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images.

THE CRITICS’ CRITICS

By Edna Bonhomme, Caroline Busta, Thomas Crow, Jason Farago, Kaya Genç, Joan Kee, Charlotte Kent, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Jeremy Lybarger, Andrew Maerkle, Meera Menezes, Ara Osterweil, Robyn Schiff, Jason Stopa, Percy Zvomuya

Frank Stella in his studio, New York, 1998. Photo: Gérard Rondeau/Agence VU/Redux.

Year in Review 2024

FAREWELL, CLOSED WORLD

On a Copernican Revolution in the Art World

By Barry Schwabsky

Andy Dixon, Vincent’s Birthday, 2023, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 42 × 49".

Year in Review 2024

BEAUTY TREATMENT

On the New Historicism

By Rachel Wetzler

Mohammed Al-Hawajri, Above the City—Marc Chagall (1924), 2010–13, digital C-print, 24 3⁄8 × 47 1⁄4". From the series “Guernica-Gaza,” 2010–13.

Year in Review 2024

PAINTING IN THE RUBBLE

On the art of Mohammed Al-Hawajri

By Pablo Larios

Coralie Fargeat, The Substance, 2024, 4K video, color, sound, 140 minutes.

Ten art professionals look at the year in art

Cady Noland, Untitled (Flag), 1992, silkscreen ink on honeycomb aluminum. Installation view, Maison d’Art, Los Angeles, 2024. Photo: Lee Thompson.

By Helen Molesworth

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, A Knave Made Manifest, 2024, oil on linen. Installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art. Photo: Jason Lowrie/BFA.

By Franklin Sirmans

lex Tatarsky, Sad Boys in Harpy Land, 2023. Rehearsal view, Playwrights Horizons, New York, November 1, 2023. Alexandra Tatarsky. Photo: Chelcie Parry.

By Claire Bishop

Uche Okeke, Ana Mmuo (Land of the Dead), 1961, oil on board, 36 1⁄4 × 48".

Tatewaki Nio, Neo-andina #102, 2016, ink-jet print, 31 1⁄2 × 39 3⁄8". Freddy Mamani architecture.

By Raphael Fonseca

Alice Neel, Richard Gibbs, 1968, oil on canvas, 64 × 50". © The Estate of Alice Neel.

By Jack Bankowsky

View of “Hew Locke: what have we here?,” 2024–25, British Museum, London. Photo: Simon Ackerman/WireImage.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Solarium, 2023, glass, two-channel HD video projection (color, sound, 19 minutes 32 seconds). Installation view, Baan Mae Ma School, Chiang Rai, Thailand.

By Andrea Lissoni

Joan Jonas, Reanimation, 2010/2012/2013, mixed media with four video projections (color, sound and silent, various durations) and two video sculpture boxes (color, sound and silent, various durations). Installation view, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2024. Photo: Jonathan Dorado

By Karen Archey

Lêna Bùi, Clean Land n.1 (detail), 2024, watercolor and ink on silk and paper, 49 1⁄4 × 33 1⁄2".

Cover of Jean-Claude Forest’s Barbarella (Le Terrain Vague, 1964). © Succession Jean-Claude.

“COMICS , 1964–2024”

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Leonilson, Leo não consegue mudar o mundo (Leo Can’t Change the World), 1989, acrylic and metallic paint on canvas, 6 13⁄8 × 37 3⁄8".

Museu de Arte de São Paulo

By Mateus Nunes

View of “Nikita Gale: NOSEBLEED,” 2024, Petzel, New York. Photo: Jason Mandella.

Petzel, New York

By Ellen Y. Tani

Harrison Pearce

15th Gwangju Biennale

By Andrew V. Uroskie

Peter Fischli and David Weiss.

Peter Fischli and David Weiss

Matthew Marks Gallery

By Barry Schwabsky

Francis Picabia

Michael Werner | New York

By Jonathan Odden

Deborah Remington

By Julia Ribeiro

Jacques Villeglé

By Harmon Siegel

Manoucher Yektai

Karma | 549 West 26th Street

By Megan Kincaid

Martos Gallery | New York

By Donald Kuspit

Hannah Whitaker

By Gabriel H. Sanchez

“Three Sides Enclosed, the Fourth Open to a Wash of the Weather”

By Michael Corris

Jessica Diamond.

Jessica Diamond

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

By Barry Schwabsky

Alice Tippit.

By Jeremy Lybarger

By Michelle Grabner

Carl Cheng.

The Contemporary Austin | Jones Center

By Natilee Harren

Beverly Fishman.

Beverly Fishman

Jessica Silverman

By Richard Speer

Elisheva Biernoff

Fraenkel Gallery

By Maria Porges

By Glen Helfand

Alice Neel.

“At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World”

David Zwirner | Los Angeles

By Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer

Larry Johnson and Hedi El Kholti

Gaga & Reena Spaulings Los Angeles

By Andrew Berardini

By Rotem Rozental

Josephine Halvorson

Megumi Yuasa.

By Mateus Nunes

Cristina Canale.

Cristina Canale

Casa Roberto Marinho

By Felipe Scovino

Oleksandr Bohomazov.

“In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s”

Royal Academy | Burlington Gardens

“Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520–1920”

By James Cahill

Ibrahim Mahama.

By Meara Sharma

Salvatore Emblema.

Salvatore Emblema

White Cube | Paris

By Mara Hoberman

Karlos Martínez Bordoy.

Karlos Martínez Bordoy

Galería FORMATOCOMODO

Barbara Bloom.

Zweigstelle Capitain VI – Palazzo Degas

By Cornelia Lauf

Loretta Fahrenholz.

Biel, Switzerland

Loretta Fahrenholz

Kunsthaus Biel Centre d’art Bienne

Tapta.

Susch, Switzerland

By Vojin Saša Vukadinović

Oliver Bak.

Sprüth Magers | Berlin

By Jens Asthoff

Isaac Chong Wai

Zilberman | Berlin – Schlüterstraße 45

By Hili Perlson

Itziar Barrio.

Nalini Malani.

The Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation (JNAF)

By Rattanamol Singh Johal

Steph Huang.

Hong Foundation

By Robin Peckham

Sujin Lee.

By Shinyoung Chung

Wang Dongling.

iPRECIATION | Singapore

Margaret Dawson.

“Duty of Care”

Griffith University Art Museum

Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

Sofía Córdova, Green is A Solace,
A Promise of Peace (where small birds hide and dodge and lift their plaintive rallying cries) (detail), 2022, taxidermied doves, parakeets, and canaries, hair dye, brass, birch wood,
dimensions variable. — Sofía Córdova, Green is A Solace, A Promise of Peace (where small birds hide and dodge and lift their plaintive rallying cries) (detail), 2022, taxidermied doves, parakeets, and canaries, hair dye, brass, birch wood. Installation view, JOAN, Los Angeles, 2024. Photo: Evan Walsh.

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