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Cover: 1. View of “Lutz Bacher: Black Beauty,” 2013, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Foreground: Black Beauty (detail), 2012. Background: Puck, 2012. Photo: Mark Blower. 2. Ron Nagle, Unabana, 2013, mixed media, 3 x 61⁄4 x 21⁄2“. From “Grapevine~,” 2013. 3. Laura Owens, Untitled (detail), 2013, acrylic, oil, and Flashe paint on canvas, 11' 5 1/2” x 10'. 4. Llyn Foulkes, The Last Outpost (detail), 1983, mixed media assemblage, 81 x 108 x 5“. 5. Pádraig Timoney, Consider the Lillies of the Field, 2009, lamp, sweater, 51 1/8 x 19 3/4”. 6. Nobuaki Kojima, Untitled (Body), 1964–66, lacquer on polyester. Installation view, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2013. From “Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde.” Photo: Thomas Griesel. 7. Detail of a bison carving from Zaraysk, Russia, ca. 18,000 BC, mammoth ivory, approx. 1 5/8 x approx. 6 3/4“. From “Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind.” 8. Jay DeFeo, Untitled (detail), 1977, synthetic polymer, charcoal, ink, grease pencil, and graphite on paper, 15 x 20”. From the series “Water Goggles,” 1977. © The Jay DeFeo Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. 9. Harmony Korine, Spring Breakers, 2012, 35 mm, color, sound, 92 minutes. From left: Brit (Ashley Benson), Alien (James Franco), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens). 10. View of “Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos,” 2012–13, New Museum, New York. From left: Replace Me, 2011; Untitled, 2012. © Rosemarie Trockel/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Benoit Pailley. 11. Mike Brodie, #0915 (detail), 2006–2009, C-print. From the series “A Period of Juvenile Prosperity,” 2006–2009. 12. Steve McQueen, Charlotte, 2004, 16 mm, color, silent, 5 minutes 42 seconds. 13. Paul McCarthy, WS, 2013, production still from the seven-hour, color, four-channel, digital-video component of a mixed-media installation staged at Park Avenue Armory, New York. Photo: Joshua White. 14. Jack Goldstein, The Jump, 1978, 16 mm, color, silent, 26 seconds. 15. Jason Rhoades, The Creation Myth, 1998, mixed media. Installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania. Photo: Aaron Igler. 16. Zanele Muholi, Ntobza Mkhwanazi, BB Section, Umlazi Township, Durban (detail), 2012, gelatin silver print, 30 x 20“. 17. Hilma af Klint, Sjustjärnan (The Seven Pointed Stars), No. 2, Group V (detail), 1908, tempera, gouache, and graphite on paper mounted on canvas, 29 3/4 x 24 3/8”. From the series “WUS/Sjustjärnan,” 1908. 18. Meschac Gaba, Game Room (detail), 1997–2002, acrylic, bicycle wheel, wooden roulette wheel, game tables, puzzles, chess board, dimensions variable. From the work Museum of Contemporary African Art, 1997–2002, mixed media, dimensions variable. 19. Sister Corita Kent, mary does laugh (detail), 1964, silk screen on paper, 29 x 39“. From “Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault,” 2013. 20. Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin, Not yet titled (detail), 2013, four-channel HD video projection, color, sound, mixed media. Installation view, Arsenale, Venice. From the 55th Venice Biennale. Photo: Kate Lacey. 21. Balthus, The Cat of La Méditerranée (detail), 1949, oil on canvas, 50 x 72 7/8”. 22. View of the 2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. From left: Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2013; Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2013; Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2013. Photo: Tom Little. 23. Beauford Delaney, Portrait of a Young Musician (detail), n.d., acrylic on canvas, 51 x 38“. From “Blues for Smoke.” 24. Robert Irwin, Scrim Veil–Black Rectangle–Natural Light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (detail), 1977, cloth, metal, wood. Installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2013. © Robert Irwin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Philipp Scholz Rittermann. 25. Sharon Lockhart, Five Dances and Nine Wall Carpets by Noa Eshkol, 2011, five-channel video installation, color, sound, continuous loop. Production still. 26. View of “David Bowie Is,” 2013, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 27. Ken Price, Untitled Cup (Geometric Cube Cup and Object), 1974, painted and glazed ceramic, cup: 4 x 6 1/2 x 4 1/2”; object: 2 x 3 1/4 x 1 1/2“. 28. View of “Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp,” 2012–13, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2013. Photo: Constance Mensch. 29. Moe Satt, F n’ F (Face and Fingers) (detail), 2009, eight gelatin silver prints, text, each 15 3/4 x 15 3/4”. From “A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, Ghosts, Rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong Story.” 30. Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors, 2012, nine-channel HD video projection, color, sound, 64 minutes.

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In this issue

John Waters

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

T. J. Clark

Sarah Nicole Prickett