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Preface
— May

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Trisha Erin
— Cecilia Pavón

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Freestyle Rap
— Cecilia Pavón

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A Perfect Day
— Cecilia Pavón

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Morality Crisis: On the Legitimate Acquisition of Tons of Sex
— Elise Duryee-Browner

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The Onset of Automation
— Georgie Nettell

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Out of the Box, on The Square (dir. Ruben Östlund)
— Jason Simon

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On “Seismography of Struggles, Toward a Global History of Critical and Cultural Journals” at INHA, Paris
— Morad Montazami

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Doors of Deflection, on Sam Pulitzer at Francesca Pia, Zürich
— Daniel Horn

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Paradiso, on Richard Maxwell at Greene Naftali, New York
— Nick Irvin

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Munch’s Flu, on Edvard Munch at MET Breuer, New York
— Clément Rodzielski

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Why Do Jaguar, on Georgia Sagri at Kunstverein Braunschweig
— Anke Dyes

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On “Gianni Versace Retrospective” at Kronprinzenpalais, Berlin
— Karl Holmqvist

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Preface
— MAY

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“A Live Center of Information”: The Paris Connection, or, Of What Was Beaubourg the End?
— Kim West

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1977
— Yann Chateigné

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London, London
— Richard Parry

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An Image that Can Be Inhabited
— Lotte Arndt

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The Hiking Trail Around the Airport
— Peter Fischli

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Clifton Clifton
— Jeanne Graff

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On Juliana Huxtable, A Split During Laughter at the Rally, at Reena Spaulings, New York
— Christian Haye

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Supreme, On Till Megerle at Christian Andersen, Copenhagen
— Anke Dyes

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On Tobias Kaspar at kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga
— Oleg Frolov

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On Show Me Your Archive and I Will Tell You Who is in Power, at Kiosque, Ghent
— Giovanna Zapperi

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Company Man, On Thinking of readymades belong to everyone® at Greene Naftali, New York
— Liam Considine

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On Charges (The Supplicants) by Elfriede Jelinek
— Camilla Wills

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Preface
— May

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American Goodness
— Elise Duryee-Browner

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If our Lives are Black. On Angela Davis and Gina Dent’s conference at La Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris
— Claire Fontaine

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Interview with Ilaria Bussoni. On the symposium “Sensible Commons” at GNAM, Rome
— May

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Weather Report
— none

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αντιanti
— -

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Villa Noailles (2)
— Jeanne Graff

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Dynamis, 2016–2017 Athens and Kassel simultaneously and in continuum
— Georgia Sagri

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On Soulèvements by Georges Didi-Huberman at Jeu de Paume, Paris
— Giovanna Zapperi

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On the film Two A.M. by Loretta Fahrenholz at Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
— Tobias Madison

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On Amelie von Wulffen at Barbara Weiss, Berlin
— Jay Chung

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On Yuki Kimura at CCA Wattis, San Francisco
— J. Gordon Faylor

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(ENG) Behind Enemy Lines: Black Power & Taboo. On The Color Line: African-American Artists and Segregation at Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
— Kari Rittenbach

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On Morag Keil at Eden Eden, Berlin
— Nicholas Tammens

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On Greg Parma Smith at MAMCO, Geneva
— Enzo Shalom

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Francis Picabia seen from Switzerland and America. On Francis Picabia’s retrospectives at Kunsthaus Zurich and at MoMA, New York
— Carole Boulbès

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Preface
— May

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Weed and the practice of freedom
— Claire Fontaine

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The paradox of self-abolition: a mapping exercice
— Marina Vishmidt

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Presence and absence
— Melissa Gordon

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Narrative without end
— Anna De Filippi

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An exercice in the practice of affidamento
— Alex Martinis Roe

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Marinella Pirelli films
— Lucia Aspesi

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Human strike between foreignness and responsibility
— Claire Fontaine

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Introduction to double-bind
— Rhea Anastas

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Citadelle. On Marie Angeletti, “Citadelle” at Édouard Montassut, Paris
— Jacob Stewart-Halevy

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On Mathieu K. Abonnenc, Lotte Arndt, Catalina Lozano (eds), Crawling Doubles. Colonial Collecting and Affect
— Emmanuelle Chérel

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A world exactly like this one. On Credits by Hannah Black
— Jack Gross

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Get some rest Pam, or Jason Bourne comes to age. On Paul Greengrass’ film, Jason Bourne
— Maija Timonen

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Aggregation or mere dislocation. On the 9th Berlin Biennale and “Painting 2.0: expression in the information age,” mumok, Vienna
— Kari Rittenbach

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Visual Insert
— LGG$B

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Villa Noailles (1)
— jeanne Graff

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Preface
— May

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Crisis Fashion
— Daniel Horn

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DIS and That
— Mikael Brkic

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Vetements – Fall / Winter 2016. Panel Discussion
— Lou Stoppard & Sahil Babbar, Aude Fellay, Aya Noel, Priyesh Patel, Vilde Sorum

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The Modern Naked King
— Taque Hirakawa

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Interview with Women’s History Museum
— Ada O’Higgins

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Maison Artists Space. Interview with Stefan Kalmár
— May

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Roundtable
— BLESS & Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, Heinz Peter Knes

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THE STREET
— Tobias Kaspar & Tobi Maier

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Jesus as Readymade. Interview with Kaspar Müller
— Peter Fischli

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Reviews

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La mode retrouvée. On the Wardrobe of the Countess Greffulhe at Palais Galliera, Paris
— Hannah Adkins

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Post-Hummannerism. On “Inhuman” at Fridericianum Museum, Kassel
— Jakob Schillinger

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Magma
— Eric Bell

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Finely Crafted Stool. On Mathieu Malouf at Jenny’s, Los Angeles
— George Egerton-Waburton

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Wolfpack. On the film “The Wolfpack” by Crystal Moselle
— Julia Moritz

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Preface
— May

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Some Partial Views: Sigmar Polke’s Reception in the United States and Germany in the 1980s
— Magnus Schaefer

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Interview with Magnus Schaefer
— Catherine Chevalier

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Interview with Guy Tosatto
— May

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On Some Models of Artist/Gallery Relations
— Table ronde avec Marie Angeletti, Camille Blatrix, Hélène Fauquet, Renaud Jerez, Mélanie Matranga, modérée par Catherine Chevalier & Edouard Montassut

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Visual Insert
— Ellie de Verdier

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The Desaturation of Graffiti. On Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho at Mathew, Georgie Nettell at Lars Friedrich, Berlin and Dave Miko, Ned Vena and Antek Walczak at Algus Greenspon, New York
— Tanja Widmann

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Paris de Noche. On “Paris Noche” at Night Gallery, Los Angeles
— Jay Chung

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Dengled Up in Blue. On Verena Dengler at Meyer Kainer in Vienna
— Lili Reynaud Dewar

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Eternal Return. On “Call and Response” at Gavin Brown and “Forever Now” at the MoMA, New York
— Kari Rittenbach

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Between the Archer and the Target. On Daniel Pommereulle at the musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes
— Hélène Fauquet

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Rain Over Water. On Hans Christian Lotz at David Lewis, New York
— Sam Pulitzer

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Preface
— May

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καταστροφή: the End and the Beginning
— Déborah Danowski

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Man in the Anthropocene (as portrayed by the film Gravity)
— Stephanie Wakefield

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Politics in the Anthropocene: A Conversation between Stephanie Wakefield and Antek Walczak
— May

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DIY or DIE: A Pastoral Selfie
— Jenna Bliss, Elise Duryee-Browner, Damon Sfetsios

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Two Tales
— Alejandra Riera

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Insert: Dustin
— Valentin Bouré & Mélanie Matranga

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Mirror, Mirror On Da Wall… On the exhibition of Stewart Uoo, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
— Daniel Horn

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Grafted Garden. On the exhibition “Your Portrait: A Tetsumi Kudo Retrospective” at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
— John Beeson

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Kiss me, kiss me, cover my body in Love
— Karl Holmqvist

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True Romance. On Camille Blatrix’s exhibition “A Ticket for the Sequel” at the galerie Balice Hertling, Paris
— Édouard Montassut

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The Apersonal Affect. On Anne Imhof’s exhibition at the galerie Deborah Schamoni, Münich
— Kerstin Stakemeier

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On Dorothy Iannone’s exhibition “This Sweetness Outside of Time” at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartkunst, Zürich
— Karl Holmqvist

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“Sorts of Notes.” On the book Dubuffet typographe by Pierre Leguillon
— Mica Gherghescu

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On the exhibition “Charles James: Beyond Fashion” at the MET, New York
— Jason Simon

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Preface
— May

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The Spoiled Children of Art
— Georges Rey

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Afterword
— Florence Bonnefous

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Black Box
— Éric Troncy

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“Project Unité” in Firminy.
Interview with Yves Aupetitallot
— May

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Editorial (catalog of “L’Hiver de l’amour”)
— Elein Fleiss, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Bernard Joisten, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Olivier Zahm

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Traffic: Space-times of the Exchange
— Nicolas Bourriaud

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The Stranger and the Margin. Interview with Roy Genty
— May

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On Loretta Fahrenholz, Ditch Plains at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
— Annie Godfrey Larmon

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On “Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade 1500-1800” at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and “Decorum: Carpets and Tapestries by Artists” at Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris
— Nick Mauss

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Trois petits chats. On “Pierre Huyghe” at Centre Pompidou, Paris
— Neil Beloufa

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Mobile Brand Development. On Carissa Rodriguez, “La Collectionneuse” at Front Desk Apparatus, New York
— Jacob King

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To the Planetarium. On “The Whole Earth. California and the Disappearance of the Outside”, at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
— Vincent Normand

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Painting Inside Yourself. On Antek Walczak, “New Transbohemian States” at Real Fine Arts, New York
— Damon Sfetsios, Elise Duryee-Browner

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Preface
— May

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An Introduction to a Juridical Legal Analysis of Contemporary Art
— Judith Ickowicz

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The Reappearances of Cady Noland and the Theatre of Law
— Judith Ickowicz, Elvan Zabunyan, David Perreau

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A Revolution “First-Hand”: Seth Siegelaub’s Journey to Portugal in May 1975
— Sara Martinetti

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Zero Dark Thirty: The Aesthetics of Narcissism
— Maija Timonen

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Friend of the Devil. On Michael Krebber, “The ridiculized snails” at CAPC, Bordeaux
— Mark von Schlegell

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On Martin Kippenberger, “Sehr Gut | Very Good” at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
— Jay Chung

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Life, like networking, is a group show. On Tanja Widmann, “eine von euch” at Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Saprophyt, Vienne, tranzitdisplay, Prague
— Tonio Kröner

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Another image, a different song. On Mathias Poledna at Secession, Vienna
— Benjamin Hirte

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Get Rid of Capitalism. On Bernadette Corporation, “2000 Wasted Years” at ICA, London
— Josefine Wikström

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Participation, Penetration, and Phoniness. On Tobias Kaspar, “Life and Lies” at Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris
— Andrea Legiehn

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On “The Issues of Our Time” at Castillo/Corrales, Paris
— Seyoung Yoon

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“Living in Your Head”. On “When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013” at Prada Foundation, Venice
— Elvan Zabunyan

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Preface
— May

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How to Do the History of French Theory in the Visual Arts: A New York Story
— John Rajchman

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From Time to Space: When Critical Theory Turns Global
— François Cusset

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Meeting Jean-François Chevrier
— Paul Sztulman

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54, boulevard Raspail
— Stefan Germer

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Biarritz by Georges Ancely – Photographs 1880–1895
— Nicolas Ceccaldi

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“Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language”
— Tom McDonough

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“Because Thought is Dark!”
— Clara Schulmann

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Peripheral Passages.
On John Knight’s Curb Appeal
— André Rottmann

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Matisse Rebooted
— Clément Auriel

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Preface
— May

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Arab Uprisings and Impersonal Images
— Dork Zabunyan

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The Language of Negation: From Montage to Détournement in the Situationist International
— Tom McDonough

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“Malaise.” The Displacements of a Word
— Mica Gherghescu

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Our Weirdness is Free
— Gabriella Coleman

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Shit Happens: The Incredible Chronicle of OWS Yet Hardly Have Ye Begun to Fight
— Antek Walczak

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This Way to the Cupcake Party
— Caroline Busta & Amy Yao

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On Alex Bag and Patterson Beckwith’s, “Cash from Chaos/Unicorns & Rainbows”
— Robert McKenzie

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On “Pacific Standard Time, Art in Los Angeles, 1950 – 1980”
— Karl Holmqvist

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On Judith Hopf’s, “end rhymes and openings”
— Melanie Ohnemus

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On Isa Genzken’s, “Die kleine Bushaltestelle”
— Karl Holmqvist

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On David Douard’s, “Innerspace: Jean Comandon/David Douard”
— Benjamin Thorel

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On Uncreative Writing by Kenneth Goldsmith
— Marwan Makki

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Preface
— May

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The Threat of the Provincial
— Ken Okiishi

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Detroit
— Jay Chung

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Radical Localism. Report From Mexicali
— Chris Kraus

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There is no Provincialism Solution
— Rex Butler – A. D. S. Donaldson

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Questions about 4 Taxis
— Thomas Lawson

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Visual Insert
— Henry Wessel

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Neon Vernacular. On “Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980”
— Alex Kitnick

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Unearthing the Campesino. On “MEX/LA: Mexican Modernism(s) in Los Angeles 1930-1985”
— Kappy Mintie

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Archives With and Without Forms. On “Anarchisme without adjectives: On the Work of Christopher D’Archangelo (1975-1979)” and “The Experimental Impulse”
— Catherine Chevalier

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The Land Farms the Farmer and the Mind. On Peter Nadin’s “First Mark”
— Mathieu Malouf

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Short Sighted Illusions. On Adriana Lara’s “Modern (lasser) Painting”
— Miguel Calderón

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Preface
— May

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“I think it’s time to break off…”
— Olivier Zahm

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Preface (Documents sur l’art, no 2, 1993)
— Hervé Legros

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Interview with Olivier Zahm
— May

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Wishing to be in Paris, glad to be in Berlin or different ways to escape the 1990s
— Stephan Geene

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Visual insert
— Axel Huber

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Looking the part – The Empty Plan by Anja Kirschner and David Panos
— Maija Timonen

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Gerard Byrne, “In San Francisco they say, “Flash on it””
— Clara Schulmann

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Ken Okiishi, (Goodbye to) Manhattan
— Karl Holmqvist

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Richard Prince, “American Prayer”
— François Aubart

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Emily Sundblad, “Que Barbaro”
— Rob McKenzie

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Henrik Olesen, The Maculate Conception
— Elisabeth Lebovici

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Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lung Neaws Visits His Neighbours
— Karl Holmqvist

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Kœnraad Dedobbeleer, The Duplication of Dedobbeleer
— Vincent Romagny

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Christopher d’Archangelo, Contrary to Intuition, Let’s Begin with an Image
— Scott Portnoy

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Preface
— May

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Paul Thek, A Fish Out of Water
— Paul Sztulman

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“I don’t want to give myself to trash…”
— Marietta Franke

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Povera Today
— Antek Walczak

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You are Invited to be the Last Tiny Creature
— Chris Kraus

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Jana Euler, “Form Follows Information Exchange”
— Nicolas Ceccaldi

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new york report
— David Lieske

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Preface
— May

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Learning to Breathe Protest
— none

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The Self, the Group and the Pimp : Two Sides of an Institution
— Salong

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The Possibility of a World
— Alexandre Costanzo

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From the A to the K
— Karl Holmqvist

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“ Look at it for a moment. Then turn the page. ”
— Camille Pageard

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“Please cremate my body. Loathing.”
— Robert McKenzie

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(FR) Le Complot de l’ornement
— Gallien Déjean

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Sphinx
— Kim West

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Moyra Davey, “Speaker Receiver”
— Elisabeth Lebovici

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Preface
— May

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Entrée en matière
— Fulvia Carnevale

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Sexual Difference: A Theory of Social Symbolic Practice (Chapter One)
— The Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective

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Nudity
— Antonella Nappi

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Autonomy and the Need for Love, Carla Lonzi, Vai Pure
— Lea Melandri

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The Ongoing Practice
— Lea Melandri

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Let’s Spit on Hegel
— Carla Lonzi

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Sturtevant, “The Razzle Dazzle of Thinking”
— David Lewis

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Why working together with an inner Voice
— Josef Strau

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Improvisation, Power, Cultural History-bending
— Tony Conrad

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In Fashion. On Josephine Pryde
— Alex Kitnick

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(FR) Conversation avec Mathieu K. Abonnenc
— Thomas Boutoux, François Piron et Benjamin Thorel

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D5 and the Gesture of Withdrawal
— Jay Chung

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“Nothing rings a bell?”, Brice Dellsperger, Body Double 22
— Clara Schulmann

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The spherical space of James Benning
— Leonor Antunes

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Preface
— May

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Grève humaine (interrompue)
— Fulvia Carnevale – John Kelsey

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“Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture”
— Caroline Busta

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Fellini – La Grande Parade/The Great Parade
— Dork Zabunyan

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What Is a Bad Exhibition ?
— Paul Sztulman

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The Complete Poem
— Chris Kraus

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Lessons from Éric Rohmer
— Julien Mahon

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CityCat, deflected in response to a system built up from under-examined details. 2 December, 2006 and 9 May, 2009, Brisbane River
— Dave Hullfish Bailey

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Shaping, Structuring, and Editing the Past
— Interview with Richard Hertz by Catherine Chevalier

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Preface
— May

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Riding out of the Sunset, or: How to Cover the Sunrise with a Thumb in Guantánamo Bay
— Magali Arriola

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“Event/Non Event” Merlin Carpenter at Gallery Dépendance
— Catherine Chevalier

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Heterotopias: Pragmatics
— Dork Zabunyan

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(FR) Installation et intervention
— Juliane Rebentisch

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“Do you work hard? Do you try hard? You don’t.Chicago, now!”
— Anthony Elms

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(FR) « Effleurer des zones dangereuses rend réel l’intevalle entre évasion et attraction.»
« Les objets dangereux sont des lieux séduisants à vivre. »
— Gallien Dejean

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Teen Image
— Seth Price

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(FR) Retour en terrain inconnu
— Thomas Boutoux, Catherine Chevalier, Benjamin Thorel et Patricia Falguières, Elisabeth Lebovici, Natasa Petresin-Bachelez

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“TARZAN, or Rousseau among the Waziri” Quai Branly
— Lili Reynaud Dewar

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Une Semaine de Bonté, or Introduction to the Reading of Hegel
— David Lewis

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Without “hers”. Or, some remarks on the exhibition of women artists at the Centre Pompidou
— Elvan Zabunyan

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“Paper Trail: Do You Love Me?” at Kunstverein Munich
— Jay Chung

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Danh Vo at Kunsthalle Basel
— Karl Holmqvist

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Preface
— May

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for him
— Jay Chung

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The Emancipated Reader
— Fulvia Carnevale

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Critique X
— Catherine Chevalier

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Haacke, Broodthaers, Beuys
— Stefan Germer

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René Magrittes’s Période Vache at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt
— Michael Krebber

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The impossible on display according to JLG – Stories of exhibitions at the Pompidou Center
— Anne Marquez

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Constructing You Persona in a Private Media Space
— Antek Walczak, Eva Svennung

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On the edge of things—Clément Rodzielski: pictures, panels and mirrors
— Benjamin Thorel

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Josef Strau at Malmö Konsthall
— Karl Holmqvist

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As of Pierre Leguillon presents Diane Arbus: a printed retrospective (1960-1971)
— Vincent Romagny

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Let’s hold back our tears
— Jean-Pierre Rehm

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