On the cover of Artforum’s January issue is the artist Tania Candiani, whose installation “Cierre Libertad (Securing Libertad)” runs along the south wall of the US-/Mexico border fence in Tijuana. Michael Dango’s essay “Stitching the Battlegrounds” offers a beautiful account of how the Mexico City–based artist fosters communities and solidarities in her work.⁠ ⁠ Elsewhere in the magazine, we celebrate Claes Oldenburg’s historic contribution to art, with tributes from curator Achim Hochdörfer, artists Charles Ray and Rachel Harrison, and his longtime gallerist Paula Cooper.⁠ ⁠ “In Claes’s art, things are agents pursuing their own agendas, connecting with us in subliminal and mysterious ways.”⁠ —Achim Hochdörfer⁠ ⁠ And:⁠ ⁠ James Quandt, Yvonne Rainer, and Amy Taubin on Jean-Luc Godard:⁠ ⁠ “‘Cinema is a form that thinks,’ says Godard. No other moviemaker has defined that form with so many and such varied works.”⁠ —Amy Taubin⁠ ⁠ Domenick Ammirati on artist-run galleries:⁠ ⁠ “While the art world has changed vastly since the early 1960s, the notion that attention is the most valuable currency of all has not.”⁠ ⁠ Plus: ⁠ ⁠ David Joselit on “Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition”⁠ ⁠ Barry Schwabsky on the art of Sanya Kantarovsky⁠ ⁠ Tara McDowell on D Harding⁠ ⁠ Sharon Lockhart on Silke Otto-Knapp⁠ ⁠ Kate Sutton on Jože Plečnik⁠ ⁠ Paris Starn shares her Top Ten⁠ ⁠ Molly Warnock on “Les Choses” ⁠ ⁠ & more than thirty-five exhibition reviews from around the world.