PASSAGES

Paul Griffiths on Milton Babbitt

MUSIC

Cory Arcangel on Euro-trance

SLANT

Okwui Enwezor on Ai Weiwei and Sharjah Biennial 10

SLANT

Carol Armstrong on Paul Cézanne

NEWS

Catherine Wood on the Manchester International Festival

FILM

Amy Taubin on Cristi Puiu’s Aurora

FILM

Steven Watson on Wynn Chamberlain’s Brand X

ARCHITECTURE

Owen Hatherley on Renzo Piano’s Shard

top ten

Leilah Weinraub

ACTING OUT: THE AB-EX EFFECT

Introduction, Michelle Kuo

SPATTER AND DAUB: THE CONTRADICTIONS OF ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

Harry Cooper

AB-EX AND DISCO BALLS: IN DEFENSE OF ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM II

Amy Sillman

CLOSE-UP:

Carroll Dunham on William Baziotes’s Dwarf

DEPTH CHARGE

TERRY WINTERS TALKS WITH JOHN ELDERFIELD ABOUT WILLEM DE KOONING

CLOSE-UP:

Jordan Kantor on Albert Oehlen’s “Fingermalerei”

LANDMARKS PRESERVATION: CONSERVING THE MONOCHROME

Carol Mancusi-Ungaro

CLOSE-UP:

Ann Temkin on Cy Twombly’s Academy

EMPTIED GESTURE: ROY LICHTENSTEIN’S “BRUSHSTROKES”

Graham Bader

CLOSE-UP:

Molly Warnock on Georges Mathieu’s Battle of the Bouvines

SIGNAL PROCESSING: ABSTRACTION THEN AND NOW

David Joselit

CLOSE-UP:

Mark Godfrey on Christopher Wool’s new Venice works

EYES IN THE HEAT: JEAN DUBUFFET, CATHY WILKES, AND JOSH SMITH

Daniel Marcus

ARTISTS ON AB-EX:

Rodney Graham, Ei Arakawa, Richard Prince, Jennifer West, Richard Jackson, Katharina Grosse, Jon Pestoni, Liang Yuanwei, Jacqueline Humphries, Katy Moran, Scott Lyall, Julian Schnabel, Lesley Vance, Nicole Eisenman

PLAYING THE FIELD: COMPUTATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AND ABSTRACT PAINTING

Sean Keller

1000 WORDS: HEIMO ZOBERNIG

Achim Hochdörfer

OPENINGS: MATHEUS ROCHA PITTA

Irene V. Small

James Meyer on Glenn Ligon

Ina Blom on Jutta Koether

Liz Kotz on Richard Hawkins

Devin Fore on “The Worker-Photography Movement”

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Sharjah Biennial 10

New York

• David Frankel on Rachel Whiteread

• Suzanne Hudson on “Unpainted Paintings”

• Robert Pincus-Witten on Kenneth Noland

• Johanna Burton on Joan Semmel

• Annie Ochmanek on James Siena

• Lisa Turvey on Sonia Delaunay

• Donald Kuspit on Thornton Dial

• Eva Díaz on Drawn from Photography

• Frances Richard on Alvin Baltrop

• Ida Panicelli on Betty Woodman

• Brian Sholis on Max Kozloff

• Michael Wilson on Talia Chetrit

• Lauren O’Neill-Butler on Benjamin Patterson

• Lauren O’Neill-Butler on Hope Ginsburg

• Lloyd Wise on Mario Garcia Torres

Philadelphia

• Michelle Grabner on Sheila Hicks

Chicago

• Jennifer King on John Sparagana

Austin, TX

• Daniel Quiles on “Recovering Beauty: The 1990s in Buenos Aires”

Denver

• Kyle MacMillan on Dale Chisman

San Francisco

• Franklin Melendez on Pablo Guardiola

Los Angeles

• Sarah Lehrer-Graiwe on Geoffrey Farmer

• Matthew Biro on Robert Heinecken

• Catherine Taft on Pablo Sigg

Montreal

• Barry Schwabsky on Valérie Blass

Vancouver

• Gareth James on Ken Lum

London

• Barry Schwabsky on Hans Hartung

• Gilda Williams on Alice Channer

• Zehra Jumabhoy on Sheela Gowda

• Melanie Gilligan on “Reproductive Labour”

Glasgow

• Lauren Dyer Amazeen on Christine Borland

Belfast

• Maeve Connolly on Dougal McKenzie

Paris

• Jian-Xing Too on General Idea

• Lillian Davies on Thu Van Tran

Berlin

• Michèle Faguet on Per Billgren and Leigh Ledare

Hamburg

• Jens Asthoff on Ellen Gronemeyer

Munich

• Daniela Stöppel on Perverted Minimalism Nr. 2

GENEVA

• Quinn Latimer on Kim Seob Boninsegni

Lausanne, Switzerland

• Quinn Latimer on Emil Michael Klein and Kaspar Müller

Turin

• Giorgio Verzotti on John McCracken

Milan

• Giorgio Verzotti on Gabriele Di Matteo

• Margarita Tupitsyn on Andrei Molodkin

Salzburg, Austria

• Daniela Stöppel on Marzena Nowak

Barcelona

• Javier Hontoria on “Are You Ready for TV?”

Seoul

• Shinyoung Chung on Suh Yongsun

Singapore

• Robin Peckham on Singapore Biennale 2011