An integrated account of today’s contemporary art world that features original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators, and artists, introducing varied perspectives on the most important debates and discussions happening around the world. An engaging account of today s contemporary art world that features original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators, and artists, introducing varied perspectives on the most important debates and discussions happening around the world. 1. IntroductionAlexander Dumbadze and Suzanne Hudson, “Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present”2. The Contemporary and GlobalizationTim Griffin, “Worlds Apart: Contemporary Art, Globalization, and the Rise of Biennials”Terry Smith, “'Our’ Contemporaneity?”Jean-Philippe Antoine, “The Historicity of the Contemporary is Now!”3. Art After Modernism and PostmodernismJulian Stallabrass, “Elite Art in an Age of Populism”Monica Amor, “’Of Adversity we Live!’”Pauline Yao, “Making it Work: Artists and Contemporary Art in China”4. FormalismJan Verwoert, “Form Struggles”Anne Ellegood, “Formalism Redefined”Joan Kee, “The World in Plain View: Form in the Service of the Global”5. Medium SpecificitySabeth Buchmann, “The (Re)Animation of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Art”Irene Small, “Medium Aspecificity”Richard Shiff, “Specificity”6. Art and TechnologyMichelle Kuo, “Test Sites: Fabrication”Ina Blom, “Inhabiting the Technosphere: Art and Technology Beyond Technical Invention”David Joselit, “Conceptual Art 2.0”7. BiennialMassimiliano Gioni, “In Defense of Biennials”Geeta Kapur, “Curating in Heterogeneous Worlds”Caroline Jones, “Biennial Culture and the Aesthetics of Experience”8. ParticipationLiam Gillick and Maria Lind, “Participation”Johanna Burton, “The Ripple Effect: ‘Participation’ as an Expanded Field”Sofia Hernández Chong Cuy, “Publicity and Complicity in Contemporary Art”9. ActivismAndrea Giunta, “Activism”Julia Bryan-Wilson, “Knit Dissent”Raqs Media Collective, “Light From a Distant Star: A Meditation on Art, Agency, and Politics”10. AgencyJuliane Rebentisch, “Participation in Art: 10 Theses”Tirdad Zolghadr, “Fusions of Power: Four Models of Agency in the Field of Contemporary Art, Ranked Unapologetically in Order of Preference”T.J. Demos, “Life Full of Holes: Contemporary Art and Bare Life”11. The Rise of FundamentalismSven Lütticken, “Monotheism à la Mode”Terri Weissmann, “Freedom’s Just Another Word”Atteqa Ali, “On the Frontline: The Politics of Terrorism in Contemporary Pakistani Art”12. JudgmentJoao Ribas, “Judgment’s Troubled Objects”Frank Smigiel, “A Producer’s Journal, or Judgement A Go-Go,”Lane Relyea, “After Criticism”13. MarketsOlav Velthuis, “Globalization and Commercialization of the Art Market”Mihai Pop, Sylvia Kouvali, and Andrea Rosen, “Three Perspectives on The Market”Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, “Untitled”14. Art SchoolsKaty Siegel, “Lifelong Learning”Anton Vidokle, “Art without Institutions”Pi Li, “Will the academy become a monster?”15. ScholarshipOur Literal Speed, “Our Literal Speed”Chika Okeke-Agulu, “Globalization, Art History, and the Specter of Difference”Carrie Lambert-Beatty, “The Academic Condition of Contemporary Art”