Index the Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation November 4 - December 13, 2009 The artist duo Goldin+Senneby works collaboratively since 2004; staging actions and discussions as a mode of investigating juridical, financial and spatial constructs. In the project Headless, which began in 2007 with the investigation of the offshore company Headless Ltd located in the Bahamas, the artists make use of varying theatrical gestures to expose strategies of withdrawal used by the financial offshore industry.

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ArtAsiaPacific Whether performance artists operate in the placid white cubes of exhibition spaces or the bustle of city streets, and whether they continue to voice political discontent, encourage intellectual debate or revel in absurdist humor, their works engage with audiences in ways that surpass the limitations of the traditional art object. ArtAsiaPacific's November/December issue delves into the visceral, comical, morbid, staged and transient character of performative works by a diverse range of artists.

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Real Art Ways November 14 - March 14, 2010 Real Art Ways presents some of the most challenging, recent work by artists from the Anglophone Caribbean and the diaspora in Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art, curated by Kristina Newman-Scott and Yona Backer.

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The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest November 19, 2009 - February 14, 2010 The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest presents the first survey exhibition of paintings by Adrian Ghenie (born 1977), the well-known Romanian artist who lives and works in Cluj and Berlin. The exhibition underscores the way in which Ghenie has been developing a consistent engagement with issues such as memory and history, by subjecting his artistic practice to a process of continuous renewal and experimentation.

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WUK - Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna October 28 - November 20, 2009 The exhibition And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out is the second part of the trilogy that explores the relation between narrative structures and the notion of the 'immemorable' and which began with the exhibition Stalking with Stories: The Pioneers of the Immemorable at Apexart, New York, 2007. In the book Idea of Prose G. Agamben defines the 'immemorable' as that which 'skips from memory to memory without itself ever coming to mind [and which] is, properly speaking, the unforgettable.'

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HALLE FÜR KUNST Lüneburg eV November 7th - December 20th 2009 Halle für Kunst is pleased to present a new constellation of works by British artist Tris Vonna-Michell for the exhibition Capstans. Text fragments, slides and objects are woven to new narrations in performances and installed mises-en-scène, in a repeatedly altered and intertwining fashion.

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Piet Zwart Institute This autumn and winter the curatorial platform If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution presents a series of screenings and lectures by Francesco Bernardelli (art critic and curator), Lars Bang Larsen (freelance writer and curator), Dominic Eichler (artist and writer) and Yann Chateigné Tytelman (curator and writer) in the frame of the current edition focusing on the notion of the masquerade.

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Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami December 1, 2009 - February 14, 2010 The Reach of Realism brings together an international group of artists exploring the artistic traditions of Realism in an age of digital manipulation and staged reality. The artists in the exhibition use various strategies to address the increasing fusion between daily life and popular media. From 19th century painters who depicted everyday life during the industrial revolution, to the 1980s "pictures generation" of artists who criticized the media's growing influence on society, artists have used realism as a political strategy. Today, it is widely understood that while images are effective means of communicating ideas, they have lost some impact in communicating truths because of increased manipulation and outright fabrication.

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The Kitchen November 18, 2009 Also introducing exclusive limited edition Create necklaces and key chains by jewelry designer Karen Karch to benefit The Kitchen and its artists.

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Frac Des Pays De La Loire November 6, 2009 - January 31, 2010 Depending on the project, other artist can join the group's "hard core". Some themes are determined beforehand, but the contributions of the new arrivals are always incorporated into the production, as long as they enrich the project. In this respect, Ha Za Vu Zu does not focus merely on their initial project but also on activities that can energize the group.

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e-flux journal What does the democratization of image production really accomplish beyond opening channels of communication? Ironically, the liberation of the voice as a means of announcing oneself and one's views can be seen as a way of absorbing the brunt of more pressing questions concerning the distribution of actual material resources, as an escape from the pursuit of more equitable relationships with regard not just to representation, but also to the distribution of property and knowledge—the power to determine one's own circumstances. At stake is really a way of liberating the means to decide one's own way of living, of being at home or making a home in the world.

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e v+ a the exhibition of visual+ art 13 March - 23 May 2010 The Curator for the 34th annual exhibition, e v+ a 2010, will, as usual, exercise sole responsibility for adjudicating the open submissions, extending invitations to internationally prominent artists of her choice, selecting all the artworks and venues, designing the exhibition's installation in city centre Limerick, assigning production budget allocations, determining the OPEN e v+ a awards and contributing an essay to the catalogue.

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Kröller-Müller Museum October 30 2009 - February 21 2010 At the moment the Kröller-Müller Museum presents a retrospective of the Dutch artist Christiaan Bastiaans (Amsterdam, 1951). Club Mama Gemütlich is not only a retrospective of Bastiaans' oeuvre of the past twenty years, but also a total work of art. The exhibition runs until February 21 2010.

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MUMOK Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna 13 November 2009 - 14 February 2010 "Gender Check" is the first comprehensive exhibition featuring art from Eastern Europe since the 1960s based on the theme of gender roles. 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the curator Bojana Pejić, along with a team of experts from 24 different countries, has put together a selection of over 400 works including paintings, sculpture, installations, photography, posters, films and videos. With over 200 artists, the exhibition paints an exceptionally diverse picture of a chapter in art history that until recently had been largely unknown and that could also act as an important addition to contemporary gender discourse.

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden November 5, 2009 - May 31, 2010 Gerrard uses Realtime 3-D, a customized game-design software, in conjunction with on-site photography, animating the stills into a seamless cinematic panning shot to capture a 360-degree view of his subjects. The result is imagery that hovers between fact and fiction. Each work tracks around a scene and unfolds in real time so that patient viewers can experience the day's progression from morning until night.

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Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC November 2 - 24, 2009 As its fall focus, the Austrian Cultural Forum presents the video-based exhibition 1989: The End of History or the Beginning of the Future? Featuring 14 films from international artists, the show will also include two panel discussions pertaining to aspects of repression and revolution, politics of memory, the fall of the Iron Curtain and the hopes and delusions connected to the alleged end of history.

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"Gegen jede Vernunft. Surrealismus Paris – Prag" ("Against all Reason. Surrealism Paris – Prague") November 14, 2009 - February 14, 2010 With over 300 works, this large-scale exhibition takes a fresh look at Surrealism as an international art movement involving major contributions from eastern Central Europe. The organisers, the City of Ludwigshafen and BASF SE, are not only showcasing major works at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum by Surrealist artists such as Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Max Ernst, André Masson and Meret Oppenheim, but also numerous works by artists such as Giorgio de Chirico, Hans Bellmer, Leonor Fini and Victor Brauner.

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Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst 2010 In recent years, Ergin Çavuşoğlu's architectural video installations, sculptures and drawings caught a lot of attention. In 2003 he represented Turkey at the Venice Biennial.

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Blanton Museum of Art November 1, 2009 - January 3, 2010 The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin is pleased to present Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape, a survey of new and recent works by this internationally acclaimed artist. The exhibition is organized by and premiered at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum (USFCAM) and was curated by David Louis Norr, chief curator, USF Institute for Research in Art, in close collaboration with the artist.

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Performa 09 "They are the DNA of experimental music!" said Elliot Sharp when he had a chance to play one of the first 'noise intoners' commissioned by Performa for Performa 09, in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the launch of Futurism. Music For 16 Futurist Noise Intoners will be an extraordinary historic evening in itself; all sixteen instruments that Luigi Russolo built and performed with fellow Futurists only once at the home of F.T. Marinetti in 1913, will be together on stage for an evening-length concert of original scores and compositions by the most significant and adventurous of contemporary experimental composers.

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University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive A rare solo performance by composer and pianist Terry Riley, an installation by Ellen Fullman that turns the museum itself into a gigantic stringed instrument, and percussion pieces featuring a swinging microphone and 100 metronomes performed by percussionist William Winant are highlights of the music programs for L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA, announced by Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) for the 2009-10 season.

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Institute of Contemporary Arts, (ICA) London 14 - 22 November 2009 The ICA is pleased to announce Calling Out Of Context, a festival of experimental music and sound which fills the building for nine days in November. One of the ICA's Galleries is being used as a performance space, while the other features a recording studio, and the Theatre is hosting gigs, workshops and discussions. The programme across these spaces includes an incredible range of musicians and artists, revealing the vitality and relevance of the sonic avant-garde.

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The Hayward Gallery Project Space Until 15 November 2009 The Hayward Gallery Project Space presents a new exhibition by one of the most significant artists to emerge from Romania in recent years, Victor Man. If Mind Were All There Was showcases 10 works, including several new pieces created for this show inspired by a piece of 17th-century graffiti on a fresco by Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca.

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frieze magazine 'I began seeing commercial Hollywood films when I was nine or ten years old, at a neighborhood theatre in Oklahoma. I've got a vivid memory of what they looked like on a big screen and the silvery feeling that I got from them; I'm sure it had everything to do with my thoughts about painting and it probably scooted me onto the world of art.'

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Deutsche Guggenheim October 28, 2009 - January 6, 2010 Julie Mehretu is celebrated for large-scale paintings and drawings that layer abstract forms with familiar architectural imagery. Inspired by a multitude of sources including historical photographs, urban-planning grids, Modernism, and graffiti, these semi-abstract works explore power, history, and the built environment, and the often dystopic impact of these factors on the formation of personal and communal identities.

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Nottingham Contemporary 14 November 2009 - 24 January 2010 A number of artists have made works for our new building. Matthew Brannon has designed the cafébar, while Pablo Bronstein has designed a 21st Century take on the wunderkammer, which will serve as a space for four exhibitions at a time. Brannon, Anthea Hamilton, Wayne Koestenbaum and Jim Waters have curated the first four. Outside the building, Nottingham Contemporary is advertised by a nine foot neon sign and a large concrete bench based on logos S Mark Gubb and Loris Gréaud designed for the institution.

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Rethinking Marxism November 5th - December 10th, 2009 Rethinking Marxism and New Marxian Times are proud to announce the opening reception for the Martha Rosler Library at Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, on Friday, November 6th from 4-6pm.

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Vietnam University of Fine Arts 28 October - 20 November 2009 Through Emergency Room, artists can react to reality every day. In Emergency Room the public can have access to the artist's premonitions, suspicions, visions and collected evidences before it is too late. In Emergency Room artists evolve and develop new unexpected methods and forms.

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Artforum November, 2009 This month in Artforum: "Taste Tests: The Art of Urs Fischer." Whether making work with moldy bread, melting wax, or Froot Loops screenprinted on massive mirrored boxes, Fischer probes the inner workings of embodied experience and cultural production—reframing both process art and kitsch in turn. On the occasion of the artist's first major solo exhibition in the US, currently on view at the New Museum in New York, Artforum's Michelle Kuo explores his feverish range of materials and means.

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Sternberg Press, Berlin/New York Thursday, November 05, 2009 With essays by: Céline Condorelli, Mark Cousins, Jaime Stapleton, Andrea Phillips, Bart de Baere, Wouter Davidts, Eyal Weizman & Rony Brauman, Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Jan Verwoert

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