COLUMNS
PASSAGES
Claes Oldenburg, Paul Kaiser, and Robert Whitman on Robert Breer
BOOKS
Malcolm Bull on Jacques Derrida’s The Beast & The Sovereign
FILM
James Quandt on Steve McQueen’s Shame
Amy Taubin on Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Tony Pipolo on Jean-Marie Straub
VAULT
Martin Kemp on Leonardo da Vinci’s The Virgin of the Rocks
SLANT
Nasser Rabbat on the new Islamic art galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saskia Sassen and Hans Haacke on the spaces of occupation
Annie Ochmanek on Christopher D’Arcangelo
TOP TEN
Uri Aran
PREVIEWS
Focus Preview
WINTER 2012 EXHIBITIONS: 45 shows worldwide
Julia Robinson on “Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties”
FEATURES
DARK MATTER: THE ART OF LIU WEI
Pauline J. Yao
JUST WHAT WAS IT . . . ?: THE ART OF RICHARD HAMILTON
Hal Foster
SURFACE ACTIVATION: THE AMIR BUILDING AT THE TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART
Sylvia Lavin
CLOSE-UP: MOVEMENT RESEARCH
Michael Ned Holte on Sharon Lockhart’s Five Dances and Nine Wall Carpets by Noa Eshkol
FLUID DYNAMICS: THE ART OF ADRIANA VAREJÃO
Carol Armstrong
OPENINGS: CHRISTODOULOS PANAYIOTOU
Aram Moshayedi
REVIEWS
Hal Foster on “September 11”
Francesco Bonami on Maurizio Cattelan
Elizabeth Schambelan on “Postmodernism”
Daniel Marcus on Printemps de Septembre
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