Featuring the poetry of VALIE EXPORT, the paintings of Thu Van Tran and Lari Pittman, the films of the Karrabing Film Collective and the story of how an artwork became the basis for a land claim

Featuring Vivian Suter in her element, the erotic socialism of Cecilia Vicuña, the surreal photographs of Tim Walker, Elisabeth Lebovici and Patricia Falguières on art criticism in France, exhibition and book reviews and more

Featuring the ranking of the most influential people in the artworld, plus the year in art (and in the real world), reports from Mexico City, Dublin, London and São Paulo and more

Featuring race, power and performance in the work of Pope.L, the legacy of Nam June Paik, Mark Bradford in Shanghai, plus breakfast with Gabriel Kuri, art in times of Brexit, an art detective story, exhibition and book reviews and more

It’s a pandemic! A Drunk Pandemic! Leading the September issue of ArtReview is a special project by Chim↑Pom that spreads from the cover deep into the pages of the magazine, connecting the dots between Europe’s nineteenth-century cholera epidemics, beer-brewing, urine and contemporary Tokyo’s sewage system. A different kind of contamination is at the heart of a feature considering the cross-pollination of Brazil’s musical and artistic scenes with political resistance, from the era of Bossa Nova to today. 
Meanwhile, Chris Fite-Wassilak wonders whether a tendency towards the use of voiceovers in recent video art is a conscious response to the wider political climate in which ‘everyone is angling to speak over, on top or past each other, just not to each other’. Profiles of Rayyane Tabet and Dayanita Singh look at artistic strategies that attempt to offset assumptions and firmly delineated contours: the Beirut-based Tabet by playing on slippage between form and narrative, object and context; and New Delhi-native Singh by ceaselessly reframing the definition and possibilities of photography as art. 

Stephen Shore, whose latest series, Details, has just had its UK debut, speaks with Fi Churchman about the disciplined restlessness to his pursuit of creating photographs and why the touchscreen Hasselblad he’s using now is the first genuine twenty-first-century camera. Penny Slinger’s explorations of female sexuality and mysticism, primarily through film and photocollage featuring herself, were at the heart of the cultural ferment of late-1960s London; here J. J. Charlesworth revisits the artist’s oeuvre, particularly its performative aspects. Meanwhile Mark Rappolt looks at the stories – fictional, conceptual – driving Ryan Gander’s recent projects. Plus the full complement of previews, exhibition and book reviews, artist profiles, artist commissions and opinions from the magazines’ regular columnists. 

Featured

Isuma
At the Canadian Pavilion, the Inuit collective disputes the ideas of nationhood and representation on which the Venice Biennale was founded. By Mark Rappolt

Christoph Schlingensief
Carl Hegemann recalls his days working with the late German provocateur and wonders whether his unapologetic brand of art-as-activism would still exist today

Franz West
With the late Austrian artist’s retrospective landing at Tate Modern, London, Rosanna Mclaughlin considers what made his sculpture so appealing to the public

Merchants of Venice: The Venice Biennale through the archives
by Bernard Denvir, J.P. Hodin, Michael Shepherd, Charles Spencer

Looking at Pictures with William Eggleston
Fi Churchman meets the pioneering American photographer

Featuring Andrea Fraser, Marina Warner in conversation with T.J. Clark, war photography in the gallery, the new MK Gallery, Tishan Hsu and more

The first issue of Art News and Reviews (as ArtReview was then called) was published on 12 February 1949, by Richard Gainsborough, a retired doctor, and his wife, the designer Eileen Mayo. To celebrate its 70-year anniversary, ArtReview has attempted to tell the story of some of the debates that animated its pages, as well as to chronicle some of the issues with which art has concerned itself over the past seven decades. In that sense it is not a collection of greatest hits (indeed this anthology does not find space for many of the magazine’s best-known writers), more an initial step towards opening up the rich resources in ArtReview’s archives to a general audience and as a site of broader debate…

Future Greats: our annual guide to the artists who are setting new agendas in relation to the role and social relevance of art, selected by fellow artists, critics and curators

Featuring the photographs of Zoe Leonard, profiles on Rachel Rose, Magali Reus, Katharina Grosse and more

ArtReview’s 17th edition of the Power 100 list is the magazine’s annual ranking of the international contemporary artworld’s 100 most in influential people

Pierre Huyghe, Maurizio Cattelan, Bruce Nauman, Nicholas Mangan, Zeng Fanzhi

Plus…
Reviews from around the world

And…
Martin Herbert’s pick of ten must-see exhibitions in October; Ben Kinmont talks to Ross Simonini; book reviews including Gary Indiana’s Vile Days: The Village Voice Art Columns, 1985–1988 and The Jean Freeman Gallery Does Not Exist, by Christopher Howard

Artist, Heal Thyself!
As ill-health is increasingly linked to questions of identity and politics, what would a collective, artistic attitude to sickness look like? By Nina Power

Kemang Wa Lehulere
Oliver Basciano on the South African artist’s archaeology of the contemporary

Aesthetic Judgement
Does a focus on political, social and moral values within the structures of art mean that we’ve lost sight of the value of art itself? By J.J. Charlesworth

Javier Téllez
The Venezualan artist complicates fixed notions of madness and sanity through subversive parodies. By Louise Darblay

Plus
Martin Herbert’s pick of ten must-see exhibitions in September; Mark Rappolt on sculpture parks; Oliver Basciano on the stricken state of Brazilian politics ahead of the Bienal de São Paulo; Vincent Fecteau talks to Ross Simonini; Under the Paving Stones: how Berlin is rethinking the art institution
Reviews from around the world including Manifesta 12, Palermo; Other Mechanisms at Secession, Vienna; Uptown High Rise No 2 at Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen; Titus Schade at Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig; Paul Chan, NEON at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens; Glenn Ligon at Thomas Dane, Naples; Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art; Goran Trbuljak at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Teresa Burga at Migros Museum, Zürich; Julie Becker at ICA, London; Jennet Thomas at Tintype, London; Liverpool Biennial; Pascale Marthine Tayou at Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York; Daniel Steegmann Mangrané at CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson; FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary ArtAnd…

And...
Books including Isabelle Graw’s The Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success Medium and Brazil: A Biography, by Heloisa M. Starling and Lilia M. Schwarcz

Featuring Bruce Nauman, Gernot Wieland, Mexican Macabre, Luc Tuymans on the Baroque, Aaron Angell on the Fatberg, Susan Cianciolo interviewed and more

Featuring: 
“1968” ‘In what way could we reject the sanctimony that so often distorts popular memory of that moment, so as to grasp its present relevance?’ – Andrew Weiner deconstructs the fetish for 1968

My Parent’s Revolution - Novelist Marie Darrieussecq recalls her embryonic engagement with the revolutionary moment of 1968, and traces its impact on her later life

Legacies of 1968 - Nine artists reflect on how their experience of May 1968, and how the events impacted their work (or not). By Art & Language, Richard Barbrook, Franco Berardi, Stuart Brisley, Jonas Mekas, Catherine Millet, John Stezaker, Regina Vater, Cecilia Vicuña

The Shape of Protest - From hastags to police ‘kettle’ tactics, Oliver Basciano traces the recent evolution of the nature of protest through the work of Ahmet Öğüt, Hiwa K and Stéphanie Lagarde

Featuring Zanny Begg’s City of Ladies, Womanhouse, Ana Mendieta, The Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective, a report on Istanbul, reviews and more

Joan Jonas meets Liam Gillick, art and the far right, Tom Burr's youth, Jonathan Meese talks to Ross Simonini, Berlin's changing landscape, reviews and more

Featuring 2018 Future Greats, manifestos, Brian Belott, international exhibition reviews and previews, opinion, book reviews, The Strip, I. Kurator and more

Featuring Tomás Saraceno, Kenan Malik on cultural appropriation, Carol Rhodes, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Georgia Sagri, international exhibition reviews and previews, opinion, book reviews, The Strip, I. Kurator and more

Featuring the 2017 Power 100, Hiwa K on the cover, art and activism, financial liquidity and the art market, the year in review, and more

Featuring sixty years of the Situationist International, Tal R on superficiality, the future China of Cixin Liu, Lucas Arruda’s landscapes, international exhibition reviews and previews, opinion, book reviews, The Strip, I. Kurator and more

Featuring the multiple personalities of Nástio Mosquito on the cover, Michael Simpson, Adrián Villar Rojas, Under the Paving Stones: art and life in São Paulo, Ross Simonini in conversation with Daniel Lie, the latest international reviews and previews, The Strip, book reviews and more

Queer activism and portraiture in the the work of Zaneli Muholi, by Brian Dillon. Plastic bags and socks – B. Wurtz’s elevation of the ordinary, by Ross Simonini. The enigmatic ocean landscapes of Maureen Gallace, by Sam Korman, Christina Forrer weaves tapestries of interpersonal anxiety, by Aoife Rosenmeyer. Ashley Bickerton and the constant pursuit of profitable alienation, by Mark Rappolt. 

Our columnists have their say…

J.J. Charlesworth’s UK election special; Maria Lind on Anna Daučíková’s films at Documenta Athens; Heather Phillipson on interspecies empathy; Jonathan T.D. Neil on the high theatre of the art market. 

Plus, Antonio Gramsci talks to Matthew Collings about Giacometti and the Venice Biennale; new strip by Rui Tenreiro draws on the artist’s experience of Stockholm’s class divide; and in the latest instalment of A Curator Writes, I. Kurator boycotts Art Basel and finds a new lease of life at an Austrian spa.

As the Venice Biennale opens, we consider the work of Mark Bradford, Geoffrey Farmer and Samson Young, three artists who in different ways reflect on sociability and social engagement as tools in art

In a month in which the 14th edition of Documenta docks at Athens, an arrangement that seems designed to highlight two poles of the continent’s economic, social and political destiny, ArtReview has been wondering how art contributes to our understanding of and engagement with these kinds of ‘real’ issues. 

After all, the representation of a problem is always one step removed from the problem itself. So how does art become more than simply an intellectual narcotic that does nothing other than ease consciences in the face of global suffering? This issue is in part dedicated to investigations into how art interacts with real rather than imagined life.

Truth, Justice, and The New American Way – featuring: a survey of the legacy of 'social sculpture' in the US; Lee Lozano; art and cynicism; Doh Ho Suh; the politics of contemporary portraiture and more!

New artists for a new era

Taking on 2017 with a view to the future, ArtReview, in association with K11 Art Foundation, presents Future Greats – our annual special issue spotlighting the artists setting new agendas regarding the role and social relevance of art. 

Selected by fellow artists, critics and curators, these twelve artists take on the complexity of the contemporary moment, from chaos theory to collectivity, from the borders of art and language to self-image in the digital age, from demilitarised zones to video games…

Say farewell to 2016 with Silas Martí's essay Body and the City on three Brazilian artists who respond to crisis and transformation in their country through works focused within and around their own bodies, read Anthea Hamilton views about sampling, collaborating, choreographing and deadpanning her way through three quintessentially British shows.

Plus, Aimee Lin peels through the layers of Birdhead, the Shanghai-based collective's giant photo matrices, which borrow from traditional calligraphy, ink painting, Japanese photography avant-garde and new technologies, whilst Czech artist Jirí Cernický presents Gagarin’s Thing, a project inspired by a mysterious object allegedly found in the astronaut’s vessel Vostok 1 after his return from outer-space. 

J.J. Charlesworth considers the British artworld’s muted response to Brexit; Jonathan T.D. Neil on the language of LA's freeways, Eve Babitz, Joan Didion and the changing language of LA’s freeways; Maria Lind sees new ways of working and living together in Céline Condorelli’s exhibition at Kunsthalle Lissabon; Whilst Heather Phillipson’s dog is in heat, the artist reflects on the power of pheromones and inevitability of death; and Jonathan Grossmalerman on how an artist generates forward momentum.

The ranked list of this year's most influential people in the contemporary artworld, with profiles of each entry, including an extended profile for this year’s no.1: Hans Ulrich Obrist, plus accompanying features including:

Trevor Paglen: the American artist discusses exposing the invisible structures that governments use in order to control the public. Interview by Oliver Basciano. With a special project by the artist throughout the magazine and online.

A History of Power: in the art game there are five kinds of players. Here player number five – the writer – places himself alongside the artist, collector, dealer and curator. By Martin Gayford.

(Inter)national collections: With public funding in retreat, national museums are tapping private donors abroad. Thomas Forwood asks, how great an idea is that?

Biennial Burnout: While the number of international biennials continues to grow, the world lurches from one desperate crisis to the next. Joshua Decter thinks it’s time to consider the real values of art.

On the Couch: ArtReview hops onto its own couch for the first time to do some serious self-reflection on the whole Power 100 business in a session with an angry therapist.

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