Issue 112, Exhibition Practices, include Jesse Birch, A Sea of Contingencies: Durational Projects, on Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber’s A Sign for the City and Cate Rimmer’s curatorial project, The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea; Philip Monk, Some Like it Haute, on the General Idea Retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario; Caroline Seck Langill, Me Calling Him — Him Calling Me, on Tom Sherman’s recent video work; Denise Frimer, Paris/Ojibwa, an interview with Robert Houle; and Tatiana Mellema, New Experiments in Communal Living, looking at projects including the La Commune.

Exhibition reviews include Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, at the Tate Modern; Art Ex 2011, in Grand Falls-Windsor, NFLD; Pavillon levé (dix jours à vaincre les mortes-eaux), at Circa Gallery, Montreal; The Normal Condition of Any Communication, at TPW in Toronto; Gwen MacGregor and Sandra Rechico: Backtrack, at A trans Pavilion, Berlin; The Art of Eating, at CX Catalunya Caixa Obra Social, La Pedrera, Barcelona; Louise Bourgeois: El Retorno de lo Reprimido, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires; Haven’t We Been Here Before?, at Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, Winnipeg; New Photography 2011, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Carl Beam: The Poetics of Being, at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Also included in issue 112 are book reviews and an artist project by Alex Wolfson.

First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A “gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture,” Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons and illuminate the author’s ideas on creating and experiencing architecture.

Orienting himself firmly in the media-present, New York artist Jonathan Horowitz replays the recent past in the incarnations of our times. This reprisal occurs particularly in video works such as “Maxell,” in which the name of the now obsolete videotape company is worn down to a VHS blur, and “The Soul of Tammi Terrell,” in which 1960s footage of the eponymous pop star singing “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” is juxtaposed with Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon’s rendition of the song in the 1998 film Stepmom. Horowitz himself makes no overt political critique, but always ensures that the work’s underlying edge is laid plainly before the viewer. Queer and ecological themes also abound, as does sly humor and a Warholian detachment. This is the first thorough survey of Horowitz’s work.

SMOKE (gets in your eyes) is the first major artist’s book by the influential yet elusive conceptual artist Lutz Bacher.

SMOKE (gets in your eyes) was assembled by Ms. Bacher as a companion to the two exhibitions SPILL (Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, September 12, 2008 — January 4, 2009) and MY SECRET LIFE (P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Winter 2009).