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No. 478 July – August 2024 Cover Cameron Rowland Obstruction, 2024 During the 18th and 19th centuries, owning a burial plot at the Ramshorn Cemetery was a status signifier amongst the merchant class. The plots were intended to function as monuments to the wealth of those who could afford them. Many of the merchants who purchased plots there traded principally in goods produced by slaves. Many of the merchants buried there were slave owners. Many of these merchants also served on Glasgow’s city council. The cemetery is now administered by the city council. When the cemetery is open, it operates as a public site of historical tourism and sustains the continued veneration of Scottish families who built Glasgow through their pivotal roles in the slave economy and the colonisation of Maryland, Virginia, and Jamaica. Its unauthorised closure is a black antagonism of this ‘heritage’. Features 1 Spaces of Memory Otobong Nkanga interviewed by Ellen Mara De Wachter 5 Against Nostalgia Bob Dickinson looks at the ways in which artists have sought to address the threat to our future posed by the right’s nostalgic appeals to the past 9 A New Deal? Susan Jones argues that there is too much focus by all political parties on the funding of arts institutions and too little on freelance artists who are fundamental to the whole art ecology Profile 13 Tiffany Sia Mimi Howard News & Comment 15 Editorial 16 Artnotes 21 Obituary Marc Camille Chaimowicz 1946–2024 Reviews Exhibitions 22 Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker Tim Steer 23 Roger Ackling: Sunlight Peter Suchin 24 Glasgow International Cole Collins 25 Soumya Sankar Bose: Braiding Dusk and Dawn Vaishna Surjid 26 brecht: fragments Alex Fletcher 28 Permindar Kaur: Nothing is Fixed Amna Malik 29 Claudia Martínez Garay: Wakchakuna / We Who Share Everything and Nothing Elizabeth Fullerton Books 30 Philippa Snow: Trophy Lives – On the Celebrity as an Art Object Chris Hayes 31 Anna Kornbluh: Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism Daniel Neofetou Performance 32 Nina Davies: Editers Antonia Blocker Film 33 Aura Satz: Preemptive Listening Maria Walsh 34 Matthew Barney: Secondary Michael Kurtz Sound 35 Steve McQueen: Bass Chris McCormack Reports 37 50 Years of Creative Growth Sarah Jury 39 Letter from Delhi Ranjana Thapalyal 42 Letter from Amsterdam Toby Üpson 44 Artlaw 40 Years of Collecting Henry Lydiate 46 Listings Art Monthly Peveril Garden Studios 140 Great Dover Street London SE1 4GW United Kingdom +44 (0) 20 7240 0389 info@artmonthly.co.uk www.artmonthly.co.uk twitter.com/artmonthly facebook.com/artmonthly instagram.com/art_monthly_uk ISSN 0142 6702 Art Monthly is published ten times a year Subscriptions subs@artmonthly.co.uk Current rates online – digital subscriptions start at £9. Call or email with payment details, or buy online artmonthly.co.uk/buy Editor Patricia Bickers Deputy Editor David Barrett Associate Editor Chris McCormack Listings Michael Kurtz listings@artmonthly.co.uk Proofreader Cath Harris Design Fraser Muggeridge studio Office Administrator Iain Hales Founders Jack Wendler, Peter Townsend Advertising Matt Hale +44 (0) 20 7240 0418 ads@artmonthly.co.uk Subscription/Distribution Natasha Rees subs@artmonthly.co.uk distribution@artmonthly.co.uk Foundation Trustees Martin Fryer, Teresa Gleadowe, Gill Hedley, Isaac Julien, Henry Lydiate (chair) Honorary Patrons Eddie Chambers, Liam Gillick, Hans Haacke, Mona Hatoum, Alfredo Jaar, Martha Rosler Published by Art Monthly Foundation, Registered Charity 1173171, Company Number CE 010907. All editorial, advertising and subscription enquiries to Art Monthly, Peveril Garden Studios, 140 Great Dover Street, London, SE1 4GW, +44 (0) 20 7240 0389, info@artmonthly.co.uk.Printed in Great Britain by S&G Print Group, Goat Mill Rd, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil CF48 3TD. Distribution: Central Books Ltd, Freshwater Rd, Dagenham RM8 1RX, +44(0)20 8525 8800, orders@centralbooks.com. The views expressed in Art Monthly are not necessarily those of the publishers or editors. The electronic version of Art Monthly is available on the Art Index http://www.hwwilson.com. No part of this publication may be reprinted or otherwise reproduced in any way without permission. Art Monthly taking art apart since 1976

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No. 478 July – August 2024 Cover

Cameron Rowland Obstruction, 2024 During the 18th and 19th centuries, owning a burial plot at the Ramshorn Cemetery was a status signifier amongst the merchant class. The plots were intended to function as monuments to the wealth of those who could afford them. Many of the merchants who purchased plots there traded principally in goods produced by slaves. Many of the merchants buried there were slave owners. Many of these merchants also served on Glasgow’s city council. The cemetery is now administered by the city council. When the cemetery is open, it operates as a public site of historical tourism and sustains the continued veneration of Scottish families who built Glasgow through their pivotal roles in the slave economy and the colonisation of Maryland, Virginia, and Jamaica. Its unauthorised closure is a black antagonism of this ‘heritage’.

Features 1 Spaces of Memory

Otobong Nkanga interviewed by Ellen Mara De Wachter 5 Against Nostalgia

Bob Dickinson looks at the ways in which artists have sought to address the threat to our future posed by the right’s nostalgic appeals to the past 9 A New Deal?

Susan Jones argues that there is too much focus by all political parties on the funding of arts institutions and too little on freelance artists who are fundamental to the whole art ecology

Profile 13 Tiffany Sia

Mimi Howard

News & Comment 15 Editorial 16 Artnotes 21 Obituary

Marc Camille Chaimowicz 1946–2024

Reviews Exhibitions 22 Donald Rodney:

Visceral Canker Tim Steer 23 Roger Ackling: Sunlight

Peter Suchin 24 Glasgow International

Cole Collins 25 Soumya Sankar Bose:

Braiding Dusk and Dawn Vaishna Surjid 26 brecht: fragments

Alex Fletcher 28 Permindar Kaur:

Nothing is Fixed Amna Malik 29 Claudia Martínez Garay:

Wakchakuna / We Who Share Everything and Nothing Elizabeth Fullerton Books 30 Philippa Snow: Trophy Lives

– On the Celebrity as an Art Object Chris Hayes 31 Anna Kornbluh: Immediacy,

or The Style of Too Late Capitalism Daniel Neofetou Performance 32 Nina Davies: Editers

Antonia Blocker Film 33 Aura Satz:

Preemptive Listening Maria Walsh 34 Matthew Barney: Secondary

Michael Kurtz Sound 35 Steve McQueen: Bass

Chris McCormack

Reports 37 50 Years of Creative Growth

Sarah Jury 39 Letter from Delhi

Ranjana Thapalyal 42 Letter from Amsterdam

Toby Üpson 44 Artlaw

40 Years of Collecting Henry Lydiate 46 Listings

Art Monthly Peveril Garden Studios 140 Great Dover Street London SE1 4GW United Kingdom +44 (0) 20 7240 0389 info@artmonthly.co.uk www.artmonthly.co.uk twitter.com/artmonthly facebook.com/artmonthly instagram.com/art_monthly_uk ISSN 0142 6702 Art Monthly is published ten times a year Subscriptions subs@artmonthly.co.uk Current rates online – digital subscriptions start at £9. Call or email with payment details, or buy online artmonthly.co.uk/buy Editor Patricia Bickers Deputy Editor David Barrett Associate Editor Chris McCormack Listings Michael Kurtz listings@artmonthly.co.uk Proofreader Cath Harris Design Fraser Muggeridge studio Office Administrator Iain Hales Founders Jack Wendler, Peter Townsend Advertising Matt Hale +44 (0) 20 7240 0418 ads@artmonthly.co.uk Subscription/Distribution Natasha Rees subs@artmonthly.co.uk distribution@artmonthly.co.uk Foundation Trustees Martin Fryer, Teresa Gleadowe, Gill Hedley, Isaac Julien, Henry Lydiate (chair) Honorary Patrons Eddie Chambers, Liam Gillick, Hans Haacke, Mona Hatoum, Alfredo Jaar, Martha Rosler Published by Art Monthly Foundation, Registered Charity 1173171, Company Number CE 010907. All editorial, advertising and subscription enquiries to Art Monthly, Peveril Garden Studios, 140 Great Dover Street, London, SE1 4GW, +44 (0) 20 7240 0389, info@artmonthly.co.uk.Printed in Great Britain by S&G Print Group, Goat Mill Rd, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil CF48 3TD. Distribution: Central Books Ltd, Freshwater Rd, Dagenham RM8 1RX, +44(0)20 8525 8800, orders@centralbooks.com. The views expressed in Art Monthly are not necessarily those of the publishers or editors. The electronic version of Art Monthly is available on the Art Index http://www.hwwilson.com. No part of this publication may be reprinted or otherwise reproduced in any way without permission.

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