• 4 PREFACE
• 32 Gary T. Marx GEORG SIMMEL, ANONYMITY, AND THE DEATH OF THE SOUL FROM ITS OWN PRODUCTS
• 44 ANONYMITY AND AFFIDAMENTO / Jaleh Mansoor on Emilia-Amalia in the Age of Institutional Indifference
• 60 THE AFTERLIFE OF A CRITIC / Steffen Zillig in Conversation with Leonie Huber and Anna Sinofzik on the Pseudonym Annika Bender
• 74 AUTHORS I RESPECT, OR: EVERY TEXT ONLINE IS A JOB APPLICATION / Anke Dyes on Anonymous Art Criticism on the Internet
• 86 Hanna Magauer PLAYING NAMES: NOTES ON ANONYMITY AND AUTHORSHIP IN PHILIPPE THOMAS’S WORK
• 96 SOCIOCULTURAL CIPHERS / A Conversation Between Gabriella Coleman and Simon Denny

MISC SPILL

• 114 WRITING BEYOND ONESELF / A Conversation Between Stephanie LaCava and Lynne Tillman

Bildstrecke

• 117 INDEXES / By American Artist

Rotation

• 124 “OURSELF, BEHIND OURSELF, CONCEALED”* / Isabelle Bucklow on “The Persistence of Masks” by Joyce Suechun Cheng
• 129 CRITICAL DRIFTING / Isabel Mehl on “Paying Attention” by Lynne Tillman

Reviews

• 134 KNOTEN UND NOTEN / Diedrich Diederichsen über Catherine Christer Hennix im Badischen Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
• 139 GENEROUS REFRACTIONS / Alice Blackhurst on “Salon” at Lismore Castle Arts
• 143 THE LINE AND THE LABYRINTH / Daniel Birnbaum on Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 147 VOM UNBEHAGEN AM NIEDLICHEN / Vojin Saša Vukadinović über Jochen Klein bei Between Bridges, Berlin
• 151 WARP AND WEFT / Jules Pelta Feldman on “Video Craft” at the Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco
• 155 FRENETIC PASTORALE / Marcus Verhagen on Cecily Brown at Serpentine South, London

Obituaries

• 159 GEORG BASELITZ (1938–2026) / von Bruno Brunnet
• 162 VALIE EXPORT (1940–2026) / von Silvia Eiblmayr
• 166 MARIAN GOODMAN (1928–2026) / by Tino Sehgal
• 169 HILDE LYNN HELPHENSTEIN (1985–2026) / by Magnus Resch

Jubiläumsedition

• Thilo Heinzmann

Edition

• Conny Maier
• Pol Taburet