Tracey Emin: X^Vjfssjet \QV\'^VQ=>\XQXX\CNe KtsoXXxet CX\K.e, 2010, neon, approx. 2^- by 91 inches. Courtesy Lehmann Maupin, New York end Hong Kong. [See page h-8.] contemporory Chinese artists who maintain links with the country's ink painting tradition despite having gained recognition in recent years for more experimental or conceptually driven meth- ods of art-making. Featured artists include Xu Bing, Ai Weiwei, Zhang Yu and Zhan Wang. American falk artist Mary A. Bell. Grant is known for combining ort historical, per- sonal and pop-cultural references to explore issues of race, gender and identity. This exhibition includes drawings, paintings and collages that provide an alternate chronicle of modernist painting. Joan Colom Museu Nocional d'Art de Cotalunya presents a Joan Colom retrospective showcasing its recent ocquisition of the Sponish photogra- pher's extensive archives. A major figure in Spain's postwar New Avant-Garde, Colom has long documented Barcelono's distinctive culture. Among the show's highlights ore a series of photographs taken between 1958 and 1961 de- picting the city's spectacular bullfights, upscale neighborhoods and seedy red light districts. The Possible Inspired by innovative art schools like the Bauhous ond Black Mountain College, "The Possible" is on experimental exhibition about interdisciplinary artistic creotion. Pather than assembling pre-existing objects, curators Law- rence Pinder and David Wilson have invited a diverse cadre of Bay Area artists, perform- ers, croftsmen and teochers to participate in residencies and work collaboratively on-site. JANUARY Deborah Grant Deborah Grant's instollotion "Christ You Know It Ain't Easy!!" depicts a fictional meeting between Henri Matisse ond African- Ed Atkins British artist Ed Atkins explores corporeol- ity, focusing especially on themes of disease ond deoth, in high-definition video works that mix imoges of fruits, forests ond beoches with excerpts from zombie movies. The richly colored digital scenes are accom- panied by computer-generated animations and surround-sound audio combining music. Mike Nelson Mike Nelson transforms the Power Plant, Toronto, with an immersive installotion that requires viewers to navigate o labyrinthine space filled with frequently jarring tobleoux. The British artist is known for creating metic- ulous environments redolent of crime, violence and politicol unrest. With the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, the Power Plant has also commissioned o work that continues Nelson's "Amnesiacs" series, centering on a fictionol biker gang composed of Gulf War veterans. FEBRUARY Hiroshi Sugimoto Hiroshi Sugimoto's photographs question how the past can be preserved, and for what purposes. This solo exhibition ot the Getty Center, Los Angeles, feotures imag- es of natural history museum dioramas and wax partraits of politicians ond celebrities. The static figures exhibited in museums ore doubly frozen in Sugimoto's still images. Take It or Leave It "Take It or Leave It: Institution, Imoge, Ideology" explores how contemporary artists have engaged critically with museums and golleries. Curated by the Hammer's senior curator, Anne Ellegood, and the New Museum's director and curator of education, Johonna Burton, the exhibition features key works by ort- ists who come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, such as Adrian Piper, Fred Wilson, Glenn Ligon, Pon Athey, Karen Finley, Andrea Fraser, Sherrie Levine ond Robert Gober. David Bates A joint retrospective exomines A-0 years of work by Dallas-based David Bates. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 50 GUIDE 2013 MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS