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$Cover: 1. Christopher Wool, Untitled (D438), 2008, silk-screen ink on paper, 72 x 551⁄4“. 2. Duncan Campbell, Bernadette, 2008, still from a black-and-white video, 37 minutes. 3. Oscar Bony, La familia obrera, 1968/1999, black-and-white photograph, 783⁄4 x 707⁄8”. 4. Ziad Antar, La Marche Turque (Turkish March), 2007, still from a black-and-white video, 3 minutes. 5. Michael Asher, no title, 2008. Installation view, Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA. Photo: Grant Mudford. 6. Klara Liden, Elda för kråkorna (Heating the Crows) (detail), 2008, mixed media. Installation view, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York. 7. Masaki Kobayashi, The Human Condition Part One: No Greater Love, 1959, still from a black-and-white film in 35 mm, 208 minutes. Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai) and Michiko (Michiyo Aratama). 8. Louise Lawler, Spoils (the lightest, sweetest, and most profitable) Joshua Holland, “Bush’s Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq’s Oil,” Alternet, www.alternet.org/story/43045, 2004/2008, Fujiflex mounted on museum box, 47 1⁄2 x 59“. 9. William Wegman, Selections from Spit Sandwich, 1970–73, still from a black-and-white video, 18 minutes. From “California Video,” 2008, Getty Center, Los Angeles. 10. Interior of The Box, Los Angeles, 2008. 11. OHO group, Mt. Triglav, 1968. Performance view, Zvezda Park, Ljubljana, Slovenia, December 30, 1968. From left: David Nez, Milenko Matanovic, and Drago Dellabernardina. From “As Soon As I Open My Eyes,” 2008, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw. 12. Michael Clark, I Do, 2007. Performance view, Rose Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, June 5, 2008. Photo: Stephanie Berger. 13. Gustave Courbet, The Trout, 1872, oil on canvas, 205⁄8 x 341⁄4”. 14. Seth Price, Untitled, 2008, two parts, enamel on Dibond, overall, 68 x 42“. 15. Monika Sosnowska, Rubble, 2006/2008, wood, emulsion paint. Installation view, Schaulager, Basel, 2008. Photo: Tom Bisig. 16. Urs Fischer, You, 2008, mixed media. Installation view, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York. 17. Guyton\Walker, untitled (detail), 2008, mixed media. Installation view, LAXART, Los Angeles. Photo: Joshua White. 18. Paul Sietsema, Figure 3, 2008, still from a black-and-white film in 16 mm, 16 minutes. 19. Damien Hirst, Memories of/Moments With You (detail), 2008, diptych, gold-plated steel, glass, manufactured diamonds, each 355⁄6 x 54 x 4”. 20. Jeff Koons, New Hoover Convertibles Green, Green, Red, New Hoover Deluxe Shampoo Polishers, New Shelton Wet/Dry 5-Gallon, Displaced Tripledecker, 1981–87, three Hoover vacuum cleaners, four Hoover Deluxe Shampoo Polishers, Shelton Wet/Dry 5-Gallon, Plexiglas, fluorescent lights. Installation view, Château de Versailles, France, 2008. Photo: Laurent Lecat/Éditions Xavier Barral. 21. Steve McQueen, Hunger, 2008, still from a color film in 35 mm, 96 minutes. Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender). 22. View of “John Armleder and Olivier Mosset,” 2008, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. 23. Jim Lambie, Forever Changes (detail), 2008, vinyl tape, chairs, gloss paint, acrylic paint, concrete, leather jackets, fabric, handbags, mirror, handbag straps, sneakers, spray cans, gold leaf, wooden doors, metal gate. Installation view, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow. 24. Dan Walsh Antique Black, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 70 x 70“. 25. Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait (Fright Wig) (detail), 1986, color polaroid photograph 41⁄4 x 45⁄8”. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. 26. Fireworks at Ai Weiwei’s Chinese New Year’s party, Beijing, 2008. Photo: Ai Weiwei. 27. Jérôme Bel, Shirtology, 1997. Performance view, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, February 22, 2007. Frédéric Seguette. Photo: Herman Sorgeloos. 28. Yves Saint Laurent, “Raspail” canvas tote bag, 2008, leather, thread, paint on canvas, 14 x 15 x 6“. 29. Mark Rothko, Untitled, Mural for End Wall, 1959, mixed media on canvas, 1041⁄2 x 1131⁄2”. 30. Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, Old Person’s Home (detail), 2007, thirteen statues of elderly people, thirteen electric chairs, dimensions variable. 31. Mark Flores, Mr. Monotony (detail), 2008, triptych, colored pencil on paper, each 155⁄8 x 19“. 32. Derek Jarman, The Last of England, 1987, still from a color film in Super 8 mm, 87 minutes. Tilda Swinton. From Isaac Julien’s Derek, 2008. 33. Merce Cunningham, XOVER, 2007. Performance view, Barbican Centre, London, October 4, 2008. Daniel Madoff and Julie Cunningham. Costumes and decor: Robert Rauschenberg. Photo: Kawakahi Amina. 34. View of “Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms,” 2008, The Hayward, London. Photo: Marcus Leith. 35. Amelia Toledo, Glu-Glu (detail), 1968, blown glass, water, foaming agent, 113⁄4 x 7”. 36. Bridget Riley, Tabriz, 1984, acrylic on linen, 857⁄16 x 711⁄4“. 37. Philippe Parreno, Fraught Times: For Eleven Months of the Year It’s an Artwork and in December It’s Christmas (October), 2008, cast aluminum, paint, musical score, 1071⁄12 x 7213⁄16 x 7213⁄16”. 38. Sejima + Nishizawa/SANAA, New Museum, 2007, New York. 39. Sarah Morris, Beijing, 2008, still from a color film in 35 mm. © Parallax. 40. Monika Baer, Untitled, 2008, watercolor, acrylic, oil, thread on canvas, 401⁄4 x 32“. 41. View of “Trisha Donnelly,” 2008, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. From left: Study for Danang, 2005; Untitled, 1998–99, and The Slowness, 2004. 42. Runa Islam, Empty the pond to get the fish, 2008, still from a color film in 35 mm, 12 minutes 8 seconds. 43. Babette Mangolte, (Now) or Maintenant Entre Parentheses, 1976, still from a color film in 16 mm transferred to video, 10 minutes. 44. Dancers during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing, August 8, 2008. Photo: Thomas Kienzle/Associated Press. 45. Lisandro Alonso, Liverpool, 2008, still from a color film in 35 mm, 84 minutes. Farrel (Juan Fernández). 46. Illustration from Solution 9: The Great Pyramid, ed. Ingo Niermann and Jens Thiel (Sternberg Press, 2008). 47. Cildo Meireles, Through, 1983–89/2008, cellophane, aquarium, chicken wire, fishing net, voile, glass, iron, 19' 81⁄4” x 49' 21⁄2“ x 49' 21⁄2”. 48. Gus Van Sant, Milk, 2008, still from a color film in 35 mm, 128 minutes. 49. Barack Obama during the Democratic National Convention, Invesco Field, Denver, August 28, 2008. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. 50. Frank Gehry, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, 2008, London. 51. Andrea Fraser, Projection, 2008, two-channel color video. Installation view, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin. 52. Peter Doig, Bomb Island, 1991, oil on canvas, 783⁄4 x 1181⁄8". 53. View of Jorge Pardo’s reinstallation of Latin American art galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008. 54. Wolfgang Tillmans, Peas, 2003, still from color video, 2 minutes 42 seconds.$

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