In This Issue
Katy Siegel, Reconstruction, 5
Centennial Essay
Krista Thompson, A Sidelong Glance: The Practice of African Diaspora Art History in the United States, 6
Forum: Performance, Live or Dead
Amelia Jones, Introduction, 32
Ron Athey, Getting It Right . . . Zooming Closer, 38
Sven Lutticken, Performing Time, 41
Sharon Hayes, The Not-Event, 45
Sophia Yadong Hao, Memory Is Not Transparent, 46
Branislav Jakovljević, On Performance Forensics: The Political Economy of Reenactments, 50
William Pope.L, Canary in the Coal Mine, 55
Helen Reckitt, To Make Time Appear, 58
Features
Miwako Tezuka, Experimentation and Tradition: The Avant-Garde Play Pierrot Lunaire by Jikken Kōbō and Takechi Tetsuji, 64
Sarah Kanouse, Take It to the Air: Radio as Public Art, 86
Reviews
Lisa Florman on Kenneth Silver, ed., Classicism and Chaos: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936, and the exhibition Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and Bilbao, 2010–11; Robert Slifkin on Elisabeth Sussman and Lynn Zelavanksy, eds., Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective, and the exhibition Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2010–11, and Harald Falckenberg and Peter Weibel, eds., Paul Thek: Artist’s Artist; Jaleh Mansoor on Rosalyn Deutsche, Hiroshima after Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War; Lara Weibgen on Victor Tupitsyn, The Museological Unconscious: Communal (Post)Modernism in Russia, Boris Groys, History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism, and Matthew Jesse Jackson, The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes