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Tsai Ming-liang’s Rizi (Days), 2020, 4K video, color, sound, 127 minutes. Kang (Lee Kang-sheng).

TIME IS THE BEST AUTHOR

Erika Balsom on Tsai Ming-liang’s Days

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Herman Howard, Untitled, 1965, gelatin silver print, 11 × 14". © Herman Howard/The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY.

ANOTHER COUNTRY

Emmanuel Iduma on the Kamoinge Workshop

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Photograph from one of Empress Elisabeth of Austria’s photo albums, ca. 1862.

Christina Catherine Martinez on “Sisi in Private”

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Alexandro Segade.

Alexandro Segade’s Fall of the Death Cult

Jasper Johns, Flag Study, 1959, watercolor and graphite on found paper envelope, 4 1/8 × 9 1/2". © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

Michael Lobel on art and the United States Postal Service

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Graphic from Vinctum’s YouTube video “Future Proves Past&#—Project Looking Glass,” 2020.

A WORLD OF PURE IMAGINATION

Paige K. Bradley on QAnon

By Paige K. Bradley

Marwa Arsanios, Have you ever killed a bear? or Becoming Jamila, 2013–14, HD video, color, sound, 25 minutes. From “Nine Lives,” 2020, Renaissance Society, Chicago.

Lauren O’Neill-Butler on the Feminist Art Coalition

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Ari Up performing with the Slits at the Coliseum, London, March 11, 1977. Photo: Ian Dickson/Shutterstock.

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Park McArthur, Ramps, 2010-2014, 20 access ramps from various art institutions, 5 aluminum signs, vinyl wall text, dimensions variable, detail

[An artwork in the form of a web address rendered in black adhesive vinyl lettering adhered to a white wall spelling out: h t t p s colon forward slash forward slash e n dot wikipedia dot org forward slash wiki forward slash capital m marta underscore capital r russell.]

Colby Chamberlain on the art of Park McArthur

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Luciano Perna, April 22 2020 6:46 pm Schlumbergera, 2020, ink-jet print, 17 × 22".

PANDEMIC FLOWERS

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh on the art of Luciano Perna

By Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

Sirine Fattouh, Fida Bizri, and Sylvie Ballyot’s children’s art workshop, Beirut, August 19, 2020. Photo: Sirine Fattouh.

ON THE GROUND: BEIRUT

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Beirut after the blast

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October/November 2020

PROJECTS: ART OF THE POSSIBLE

Sue Coe, Stamped Out, 2020, linocut with hand-coloring on paper, 10 3/8 × 8 1/2".

PROJECT: SUE COE

Lauren O’Neill-Butler on Sue Coe’s ominous rallying cries

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Jennifer Bolande, twelve diptychs from the series and film “The Composition of Decomposition,” 2016–18.

PROJECT: JENNIFER BOLANDE

Judith Bernstein, Gasligting, 2019, acrylic and oil on canvas, 89 1/2 × 88 1/2".

PROJECT: JUDITH BERNSTEIN

Tala Madani, Situation Room, 2020, oil on linen, 16 × 23".

PROJECT: TALA MADANI

October/November 2020

PROJECT: RENÉE GREEN

October/November 2020

PROJECT: KENNY SCHARF

Taryn Simon, Black Square XXIV, Former Vice President Joe Biden, 2020, ink-jet print, 31 3/4 × 31 3/4". From the series “Black Square,” 2006–.

PROJECT: TARYN SIMON

Tomashi Jackson, Time and Space (Blue), 2020, Pentelic marble dust on election ephemera, acrylic, paper bags, canvas, 81 1/2 × 76 1/2".

PROJECT: TOMASHI JACKSON

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Ken Okiishi, Vital Behaviors, 2019, HD video, color, sound, 64 minutes. Brian Altemus.

CLOSE-UP: THIRST TRAP

Laura McLean-Ferris on Ken Okiishi’s Vital Behaviors, 2019

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Garrett Bradley, America, 2019, three-channel 35 mm transferred to 4K video projection, black-and-white,
sound, 23 minutes 55 seconds. Production still.

CLOSE-UP: LOST AND FOUND

Amy Taubin on Garrett Bradley’s Time, 2020, and America, 2019

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Lantian Xie, When I Move, You Move, 2020, wearable motors, cloth bands, battery case, tablet, vinyl vests, packaged food, packaged drinks, cigarette boxes, light box, urethane foam, HD video (color, sound, 5 minutes 24 seconds). Installation view. Photo: Keita Otsuka.

Yokohama Triennale 2020

Yokohama Museum of Art and PLOT 48

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Feliciano Centurión, Tigres (Tigers), 1993, acrylic on blanket, 70 7/8 × 72 3/4".

Feliciano Centurión

Americas Society

By American Artist

Whitney Museum of American Art

By Jane and Louise Wilson

By Lisa Alvarado

Bridget Donahue

By Giorgio Griffa

By Congo and Jackson Pollock

By Serena Stevens

By Karine Laval

Laval Studio/SOCO Gallery

By Michelangelo Lovelace

Fort Gansevoort

By Jessica Wilson

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Hernan Bas, The Revelation in the Rambles, 2020, acrylic on linen, 72 × 60". From “The Circus Has Been Cancelled.”

“The Circus Has Been Cancelled”

Harper's East Hampton

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Clotilde Jiménez, The Family Tradition, 2020, charcoal, fabric, and wallpaper on paper, 20 × 20 1/2".

Clotilde Jiménez

Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

By “Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago”

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA Chicago)

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Joe Light, Joe Light, 1986, house paint on plywood, 22 × 13 1/4".

Institute 193 | Lexington

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Carmen Argote, Digesting Scroll&#—Feb, March, April, 2020, protein-bar oil, chocolate, and crayon on paper, 22' × 4' 2".

Commonwealth and Council

By J. Parker Valentine

By Jamison Carter

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Adriana Lestido, Untitled, 1992, gelatin silver print on fiber paper, 9 1/2 × 14 5/8". From the series “Mujeres presas” (Imprisoned Women), 1991–93. From “Pensar todo de nuevo” (Rethink Everything).

“Pensar todo de nuevo”

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Hanne Darboven, Ein Jahrhundert.1b (A Century. 1b) (detail), 1971–74, offset print, typewriter, ink on graph paper, 100 sheets, each 11 3/4 × 8 1/4", in 25 frames.

Hanne Darboven and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt

Sprüth Magers | London

By Gordon Parks

By Khadija Saye

236 Westbourne Grove

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Niele Toroni, Empreintes de pinceau N°50 à intervalles réguliers de 30 cm (Brush Impressions No. 50 at Regular Intervals of 30 cm), 2020, collage and acrylic on foam board, 25 5/8 × 19 3/4".

Marian Goodman Gallery | Paris

Galerie Jocelyn Wolff

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Tomoo Gokita, Regina #2, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 76 3/8 × 63 3/4".

MASSIMODECARLO | Milan/Lombardia

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Radenko Milak, Drone delivers aid to people amid the lockdown measures to halt the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Catapilco, Valparaiso Region, Chile, April, 2020, watercolor on paper, 13 3/4 × 9 3/4".

KOENIG2 by_robbygreif

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Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller, Das neunte Jahresportrait (The Ninth Year Portrait) (detail), 2012–13, 314 gelatin silver prints, 13 C-prints mounted on eleven cardboard plates, each 16 × 19 3/4". From the series “Jahresportraits” (Year Portraits), ca. 1972–.

Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller

Museum der Moderne Salzburg | Mönchsberg

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Monika Baer, untitled, 2020, paper, acrylic, ink-jet print, saw-blade fragment, and screws on cardboard, 7 × 11 3/4 × 2 1/2".

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)

Efremidis Gallery

Henrik Olesen, intestine, black, red, horizontal, 2020, oil and mixed media on canvas, 15 3/4 × 19 3/4".

Galerie Buchholz | Cologne

Luca Frei, Model for a Pedagogical Vehicle, 2018, powder-coated steel, fabric, digital prints on PVC, paper objects. Installation view, 2020.

Malmö Konsthall

Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, Promised Lands, 2015–18, video, color, sound, 20 minutes. From “El sauce ve de cabeza la imagen de la garza” (The Willow Sees the Heron’s Image Upside Down).

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

“El sauce ve de cabeza la imagen de la garza”

TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes

Jasmina Metwaly, Anbar (Badrawi’s atelier), 2019, 2K video, color, sound, 19 minutes 10 seconds. Installation view, 2020.

Jasmina Metwaly

Arsenal Gallery

Mehmet Sinan Kuran, Le pain quotidien (Daily Bread), 2020, ink on found photograph, 14 3/8 × 10 3/8".

Mehmet Sinan Kuran

ANNA LAUDEL Istanbul

N. N. Rimzon, The Round Ocean and the Living Death, 2019–20, fiberglass, granite dust, plywood. Installation view, 2020.

Talwar Gallery | New Delhi

Guan Xiao, Messenger, 2020, pigmented bronze, lacquered porcelain, bicycle parts, dried flowers, 72 7/8 × 43 1/4 × 16 1/8".

Antenna Space 天线空间

Alex Cuffe, When the anaesthetic wore off the lights were so bright . . . the only thing they could offer was this washcloth . . . I woke up screaming . . . all they could offer was this washcloth . . . the first words I remember were addressed to a body of a different gender . . . I held the nurses hand smiling while my first words were to correct her . . . and all I have left is a washcloth that will never be clean, 2019, cotton cloth, hair dye, 17 3/4 × 13 3/4".

Adam Pendleton, US/U.S., 2020, spray paint on paper. — Adam Pendleton, US/U.S., 2020, spray paint on paper.

October/November 2020

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