On the Ground : New York - Los Angeles - London - Milan - Mumbai - Beijing : the map is not the territory: mindful as ever of this classic admonition, Artforum nevertheless offers a prvisional atlas of the year in contemporary art. For our third annual installment in this series, we asked six artists, curators, and writers in cities around the world to survey the lay of the land as it has appeared to them over the course of the past twelve mounths. - Higgs, Matthew; Kushner, Rachel; Gilligan, Melanie; Gioni, Massimiliano; Möntmann, Nina; Tinari, Philip (Artforum, 2006)