This issue mirrors the 2010 midterm election season, counterpoising the cacophony of the mediasphere with willed, communal silence, to explore the effects of their concomitance. Highlights include James Franco's conversation with Alanna Heiss and Will Corwin about the influence of Faulkner and soap opera tropes on the show The Dangerous Book Four Boys, Berin Golonu's examination of the claims and implications of BRAVO's reality show Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, and Grant Johnson's effort to trace the silence at play from the political realm to the museum in Guillermo Kuitca's traveling retrospective. The issue includes reviews of Theaster Gates' Gestures of Resistance by Andrea Mellard, Sally Sheinman's Let's Celebrate! by David Gleeson, and Jef Geys' Quadra Medicinale by Todd Meyers.
