Front & back cover: Lordy Rodriquez, Road Trip, (detail), 2007
Marker on paper
20.5 x 14.5 inches
Courtesy the artist

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Mapping the Republic of Contemporary Art

(Notes from the Panamerican Highway)

- Pablo Helguera -

It was August 16, 2006, and I was in Cúcuta, a town on the Colombian border with Venezuela…

Selections from the Phantom Traveling Trenchcoat, 2007

- Ali Fitzgerald -

Now That We Can Do Anything, What Do We Do?

- Gean Moreno & Daniel Martinez -

As his contribution to the last Cairo Biennial (December 12, 2006–January 31, 2007), Los Angeles-based artist Daniel Joseph Martinez exhibited The Fully Enlightened Earth Radiates Disaster Triumphant, an animatronic double of himself that burst into sudden apoplectic attacks...

Projecting ARTL!ES Into the Void

- Chris Taylor -

Public Address

Preliminary Thoughts on Alternative Systems of Distribution

- Kelly Baum -

or many years now, I have been interested in the relationship between art and the public—specifically, I am curious to understand how art addresses (and, in so doing, actually creates) its audience...

Francis Al˙s: Walking Distance from My Studio

Urbanism of the Imagination

- Cuauhtémoc Medina -

An artist is neither defined by the accidental nature of his passport’s nationality nor by the tradition of a discipline...

A Cunning Plan

- Basim Magdy -

Return

A Project by Michael Rakowitz

- Regine Basha -

A few months ago, I began a project tracking the musical life of Iraqi Jews, from legendary performances on Baghdad Radio in the 1940s to worldwide house parties and jam sessions by those left alive in the diaspora...

Agadez Chronicle

Post-colonial Politics of Space and Mobility in the Sahara

- Ursula Biemann -

he significance of the Sahara lies in its strategic qualities and almost unimaginable expanse. It never harbored great economic potential for colonialists...