The December issue features the nineteenth edition of the Power 100, ArtReview’s annual ranking of the contemporary artworld’s most influential people and movements. After a year of enormous social and cultural upheaval, Black Lives Matter takes number one position, its unprecedented influence signalled not only by the overarching position on the list – the first time a movement rather than an individual has been at the top of the Power 100 – but also in the shaping of this list. It is followed by Indonesian collective ruangrupa, curators of documenta 15, and advocates of collective and collaborative practice, while at number 3 are academics Felwine Sarr & Bénédicte Savoy, champions of museum restitution. The #MeToo movement is at number 4, and philosopher Fred Moten is number 5. Accompanying the Power 100 is a series of interviews with the people reshaping definitions of power in the artworld today. Academic Bénédicte Savoy talks about restitution; activist philanthropist Darren Walker discusses his role in the postponement of the Philip Guston Now exhibition; artist Sammy Baloji speaks about co-founding the Lubumbashi Biennial; Green Papaya Projects reveal the trials and tribulations of the Manila off-space; curator Laura Raicovich delves into museum ethics; and founder of the Artists’ Support Pledge Matthew Burrows suggests a new economy for the artworld. Plus: Ross Simonini talks spirituality and creativity with David Lynch; and two portfolios of powerful photography from Joshua Rashaad McFadden, documenting the experiences of Black people in the US, in the face of police brutality historic and systemic racism, and Kilii Tüyan exploring the everchanging relationship between the human and natural worlds. 

With new restrictions and control measures coming into force in many places, the November issue of ArtReview takes a look at the rule breakers, the definition stretchers and a variety of challenges to what we perceive as normal. On the cover is American painter and sculptor Nicole Eisenman, who, in reimagining the world through her art, explores new codes for the representation of gender in the public realm. Rosanna Mclaughlin investigates the implications of the ‘male genius’ mythology surrounding the Casa Mollino in Turin. Also featuring a focus on the rich history of Somankidi Coura, a self-organised agricultural and cultural cooperative in Senegal; a newly commissioned collage by Brooklyn-based Kameelah Janan Rasheed; and a profile of cult Armenian filmmaker Artavazd Pelechian. Plus an interview with musician and writer Johanna Hedva, book and exhibition reviews including Grace Before Jones, a survey of the pop-icon’s legacy, and Eula Biss’s new nonfiction, Having and Being Had, on becoming middle-class.

The October issue marks a significant moment: put together during a period in which, in Europe, the pandemic’s progress slowed, it arrives on the crest of a new art season, full of hope, promise and some trepidation. With insightful views on the present from British artists Helen Marten and Ollie Dook, Portuguese artist, psychologist and writer Grada Kilomba and Indian artist Shilpa Gupta. Also featuring the final interview given by Chilean artist Lotte Rosenfeld, who died in July. Plus a text on dread in contemporary art – and whether artists might get better at invoking the feeling following this extended period of uncertainty and, yes, dread. That said, art is being made and shown far and wide, reflected here in reviews from the Berlin Biennale, Prague’s gallery weekend, Los Angeles, New York and London. Plus books, opinion and a portfolio of work by Indigenous Australian multimedia artist Destiny Deacon

This issue includes an essay on what a poor art might look like; a conversation on the future of art between Liam Gillick and J.J. Charlesworth; and an analysis of the conservative drift in liberal thinking of recent decades. Martin Herbert contributes to an ArtReview series examining single works, in this issue Kris Martin’s handwritten copy of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot; Chris Fite-Wassilak looks at the work of Sara Cwynar; Ross Simonini interviews Farah Al Qasimi; and Patrick Langley continues his investigations into sound with a focus on museum tours on radio. Plus state-of-play looks at art scenes in New York, by Rahel Aima, and Los Angeles, by Cat Kron, as well as expanded coverage of recent books.

In the face of COVID-19, and the various injustices it has unmasked and exposed, the rarefied world of art has been quick to adopt a rhetoric of togetherness. The new issue of ArtReview asks: what does solidarity look like in a discipline that traditionally privileges individual expression?

Featuring Catherine Opie, Tomás Saraceno, Adam Farah, Roman Signer, a project by Laure Prouvost, and thoughts on what the ‘Artist of the Future’ might look like


Featuring Roee Rosen, Wong Ping, Anna Witt, Pedro Neves Marques, Huma Bhabha, a guide to the best exhibitions this month, our regular columns, reviews, books and more

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

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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.

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