In this issue

ArtReview’s October issue looks to artists and thinkers who turn their attention to forgotten histories, narratives and knowledge systems to put the present under a new light. Featuring: a cover profile of Jeffrey Gibson, an American-indigenous artist whose vibrant and playful work seeks to unpick and repattern some of the persistent mythologies around the depiction of native cultures; radical political thinker Noam Chomsky on what we can learn from the late anthropologist David Graeber’s revisionist writings and his posthumously published study of pirate societies; and, ahead of his first UK show, we take a look at the work of Tyler Mitchell, whose photographs of Black bodies in bucolic settings and idyllic landscapes seek to address their historical exclusion from such leisurely contexts and representations. Elsewhere, a survey of the experimental films of Sylvia Schedelbauer, and an interview with documenta fifteen curators, the Indonesian collective ruangrupa, about the various controversies that engulfed this edition and what they’ve learned from operating within a Western institution. Plus extensive books and exhibition reviews from around the world.

ArtReview Magazine Description:

Founded in 1949, ArtReview is one of the world’s leading international contemporary art magazines, dedicated to expanding contemporary art’s audience and reach. We believe that art plays a vital role in inspiring a richer, more profound understanding of human experience, culture and society today. Aimed at both a specialist and a general audience, the magazine features a mixture of criticism, reviews, reportage and specially commissioned artworks, and offers the most established, in-depth and intimate portrait of international contemporary art in all its shapes and forms.