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Helen Frankenthaler

By Anne M. Wagner

Illustration from Persian poet Nizami’s “Haft Paykar” (Seven Beauties) (Shiraz, Persia, 1410–11).

Hans Belting’s Florence and Baghdad

By David Roxburgh

Cristián Jiménez, Bonsái, 2011, still from a color film in 35 mm, 95 minutes. Julio (Diego Noguera).

Cristián Jiménez’s Bonsái

By Melissa Anderson

Aerial view of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, New York, 2011. Photo: Joe Woolhead.

absence as memorial

By Graham Bader

DOME, London, 1981. From left: Bruce Gilbert, Graham Lewis. Photo: The Douglas Brothers.

DOME and Groovy Records

Cheryl Dunye, Mommy Is Coming, 2012, still from a color video, 65 minutes. Hans Eberhardt (Wieland Speck) and Helen Eberhardt (Maggie Tapert).

Cheryl Dunye’s Mommy Is Coming

By Julia Bryan-Wilson

Ron Gilad, Platform + Border = Fruit Bowl (Part 1), 2000, wood, brass, 3 1/2 x 11 x 11".

By Steven Watson

April 2012

Hank Willis Thomas

By Hank Willis Thomas

Josephine Pryde, Scale XVI, 2012, color photograph, 41 3/4 x 31 7/8".

TEST SUBJECTS: THE ART OF JOSEPHINE PRYDE

Stan Douglas, A Luta Continua, 1974, 2012, color photograph, 47 1/2 x 71 1/4". From the eight-part suite Disco Angola, 2012.

CLOSE-UP: REBEL MOVEMENT

Rachel Kushner on Stan Douglas’s Disco Angola

By Rachel Kushner

Jean-Luc Moulène, untitled, 1992, color photograph, 47 1/4 x 61". All works from the suite M. Chaudun’s Garden, 1991–2006, from the series “Fénautrigues,” 1991–2006.

ARTIST’S PORTFOLIO: M. CHAUDUN’S GARDEN

By Jean-Luc Moulène

Digital rendering of a projection from Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway’s Black Shoals Stock Market Planetarium, 2001/2004.

ART AFTER NATURE: THE POST-NATURAL CONDITION

Institute of Critical Zoologists, Winner, 2009, 2011, color photograph, 47 5/8 x 33". From the series “The Great Pretenders,” 2011.

OPENINGS: ZHAO RENHUI

By Jeffrey Kastner

Paul Chan, Sade for Sade’s Sake, 2009, video projection, 345 minutes. Installation view.

“Before the Law”

By Diedrich Diederichsen

Sid Grossman, Coney Island, ca. 1947, black-and-white photograph, 9 3/8 x 7 7/8".

“The Radical Camera”

Decolonizing Architecture/Art Residency, Common Assembly, 2011–12, plywood, steel, aluminum, nylon cable, video. Installation view.

“Decolonizing Architecture/Art Residency”

Anne Truitt, Untitled, 1986, acrylic on paper, 30 1/4 x 23".

Matthew Marks Gallery

By Robert Pincus-Witten

Yinka Shonibare, MBE

James Cohan | 48 Walker St

By David Frankel

Hauser & Wirth | West 18th Street

By Frances Richard

Team Gallery | Grand Street

Peter Blum Gallery

By Suzanne Hudson

Gavin Brown's enterprise | 620 Greenwich Street

Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

By Lauren O’Neill-Butler

Sean Kelly Gallery

By Joshua Decter

Reena Spaulings Fine Art | New York

By Alexander Scrimgeour

Newman Popiashvili

By Barry Schwabsky

Spanierman Gallery

By Donald Kuspit

“Looking Back: The 6th White Columns Annual”

By Michael Wilson

Jesús Rafael Soto

Grey Art Gallery

By Daniel Quiles

“Peripheral Visions: Italian Photography, 1950s–Present”

The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College

By Brian Sholis

Zoe Strauss, Billboard 9: “Matt Tune,” Morgan City, LA, 2009, installed on Lindbergh Boulevard, Philadelphia, 2012.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

By Nell McClister

Balázs Kicsiny, Killing Time (detail), 2012, mixed media, dimensions variable.

Balázs Kicsiny

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Sandy Skoglund, Pink Sink, 1977, ink-jet print, 16 x 16".

Rule Gallery | Denver

By Kyle MacMillan

Dusty Madsen, Member’s Only, 2012, 1 Shot enamel on metal, 8 x 24". From “An American Language.”

“An American Language”

Guerrero Gallery

Los Angeles Free Music Society

Cherry and Martin

By Travis Diehl

Liz Glynn, Kreutzberg Hoard, 2011, shopping cart armature, produce, gold leaf, acrylic, 36 x 12 x 10".

Pitzer College Art Galleries

By Catherine Taft

Renee So, Drunken Bellarmine, 2012, wool, acrylic, oak-tray frame, 68 1/2 x 48 7/8 x 2 3/8".

By Gilda Williams

By Steven Cairns

View of “Bill Bollinger,” 2011–12. Foreground: Pipe Piece, 1968–69. Background: Cyclone Fence, 1968/2011.

By Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith

View of “Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz,” 2011–12.

Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz

By Marek Bartelik

Joachim Koester, Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes, 2011, wood, black-and-white 16-mm film projection, 8 minutes 15 seconds. Installation view.

Villeurbanne, France

Joachim Koester

Institut d'Art Contemporain

By Guitemie Maldonado

Matthew Ronay, Double Cloak of Stars, 2009, cotton, nylon-waxed cord, fiber rush, plastic, walnut, papier-mâché, paint, plaster, cotton, gold leaf, 8' 5" x 12' x 10". From “Secret Societies.”

“Secret Societies”

CAPC musée d'art contemporain

By Sinziana Ravini

Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys, Das Loch (The Hole), 2010, still from a color video, 26 minutes.

Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys

Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie

Simon Cantemir Hausì

Galerie Barbara Thumm

By Jurriaan Benschop

Chris Martin, Homage to Alfred and Bill #5, 1982–96, oil and felt on canvas, 15 x 12 1/4".

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

View of “Annette Kelm and Michaela Meise,” 2011–12. From left: Michaela Meise, Observatory Crest, 2004; Annette Kelm, Magnolia #1, 2001; Michaela Meise, Iris, 2010.

Annette Kelm and Michaela Meise

Bonner Kunstverein

By Noemi Smolik

Silvie Defraoui, La Diva del Pueblo Nuevo, 2009, color photograph, 12 1/2 x 15 1/2".

Silvie Defraoui

Galerie Susanna Kulli

By Hans Rudolf Reust

Tomory Dodge, Sleepless, 2011, diptych, oil on canvas, overall 72 x 110 1/4".

Monica De Cardenas | Zuoz

By Hans Rudolf Reust

Luca Vitone, Natura morta con “Punt e Mes” (Still Life with Punt e Mes), 2012, plastic food, cloth, glasses, plates, Punt e Mes, water. Installation view. From “D’après Giorgio.”

“D’après Giorgio”

Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico

By Mario Codognato

Mads Gamdrup, Noise, 2012, ink-jet print mounted on Diasec, 86 5/8 x 70 7/8". From the series “Noise,” 2008–.

By Julie Cirelli

Martin Erik Andersen, Scaffolding (from a Corruptible to an Incorruptible Crown—Civilization of Discontent), 2011, mixed media, 16' 5" x 28' x 19' 8".

Martin Erik Andersen

Galleri Susanne Ottesen

By Lars Bang Larsen

Ann Cathrin November Høibo, Untitled, 2012, shelf, Velcro, shoe-lace, four framed tapestries, 59 1/2 x 35 3/8 x 31 1/2".

Ann Cathrin November Høibo

STANDARD (OSLO) | Hegdehaugsveien

By Johanne Nordby Wernø

Rob Birza, Shifting Systems III, 2011, egg tempera on canvas, 70 7/8 x 78 3/4".

Willem Baars Projects

By Hans den Hartog Jager

Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Azor, 2012, compacted yacht, 15' 5" x 14' 9" x 6' 2 3/4".

Fernando Sánchez Castillo

Matadero Madrid

By Javier Hontoria

Pravdoliub Ivanov, Just Because, 2011, acrylic and lacquer on cardboard, 39 3/8 x 27 1/2".

Pravdoliub Ivanov

Le Guern Gallery

By Sylwia Serafinowicz

Hong Hao, As It Is—The Writings of a Hundred I, 2011, pencil on found paper mounted on aluminum, framed with wood and acrylic, 47 1/4 x 76 3/4 x 2 3/4".

Beijing Commune 北京公社

By Angie Baecker

Cover: Josephine Pryde, Scale I (detail), 2012, color photograph, 41 3/4 x 31 7/8". From the series “Scale,” 2012. — Cover: Josephine Pryde, Scale I (detail), 2012, color photograph, 41 3/4 x 31 7/8". From the series “Scale,” 2012.

April 2012

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