
the Year in “Re-”
A reckoning is in order. Given the extraordinary number of returns, revisits, and repetitions of all kinds this past year, including the extensive refabrications of postwar art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition “Gutai: Splendid Playground” and the astonishing reboot in Venice of Harald Szeemann’s 1969 show “Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form”not to mention the steadily increasing interest in repeating historic works of performance art over the last decadewe offer here a provisional taxonomy of contemporary art-world keywords dangling from the prefix re. The