Artist projects. Hilma af Klint -- Yuji Agematsu -- Korbinian Aigner -- Levi Fisher Ames -- Ed Atkins -- Hannelore Baron -- Wilson Bentley -- Arthur Bispo do Rosário -- Carol Bove/Carlo Scarpa -- Roger Caillois -- Artifacts from the National Museum of Beirut preserved by Maurice Chehab -- The houses of Peter Fritz preserved by Oliver Croy and Oliver Elser -- Howard Fried -- Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn -- Aurélien Froment -- Richard Greaves/Mario Del Curto -- Ydessa Hendeles -- Susan Hiller -- MM -- Vladimir Nabokov -- Shinro Ohtake -- Henrik Olesen -- Loretta, Missouri, and Quinnie Pettway -- Zofia Rydet -- Harry Smith -- Vanda Vieira-Schmidt -- Portraits of Ye Jinglu preserved by Tong Bingxue --

Texts. Director's foreword / Lisa Phillips -- The country of last things / Massimiliano Gioni -- The trick brain / Ed Atkins -- Letter to the Smithsonian / Wilson Bentley -- Roger Caillois's The Writing of Stones / Marguerite Yourcenar -- Partners (The Teddy Bear Project) / Ydessa Hendeles -- An absence of wood nymphs / Robert H. Boyle -- On quilt-making and Gee's bend / Loretta Pettway -- On the sociological record / Zofia Rydet -- A rare interview with Harry Smith: Part two / John Cohen -- A modest manifesto for museums / Orhan Pamuk -- Exhibition checklist.