No. 479 September 2024 Cover
Lonnie Holley, MONDO, The Property of All, 2023, detail
Features 1 Future Past
Jesse Darling interviewed by Chris McCormack 6 Exhibition as Performance
Sarah E James finds collaborative exhibition formats that offer more complex models than those put forward in Claire Bishop’s new book Disordered Attention 11 Book Marks
Greg Thomas considers our relation to books as an embodied encounter that leaves traces on both the object and the individual
Profile 15 Delcy Morelos
Michael Kurtz
News & Comment 18 Editorial 19 Artnotes 25 Obituaries
Bill Viola 1951–2024 Robert Ellis 1951–2024
Reviews Exhibitions 27 Francis Alÿs: Ricochets
Deborah Schultz 28 Lonnie Holley:
All Rendered Truth Lizzie Homersham 29 Anna Boghiguian:
Period of Change Chris Clarke 30 Barbara Kasten: Site Lines
Chris Townsend 31 Hannah Perry: Manual Labour
Matthew Bowman 32 Hetain Patel:
Come As You Really Are Amna Malik 33 Sound Solid Liquid Light
Janice Cheddie 34 After Mallarmé:
Parts Two and Three Andrew Chesher 35 Indigenous Histories
Elizabeth Fullerton Artists’ Books 36 Roy Claire Potter: The Wastes
Lauren Velvick Books 37 Alexander Bigman: Pictures and the Past – Media, Memory and the Spectre of Fascism in Postmodern Art Morgan Falconer
Reports 38 Speculative Libraries
Nick Thurston 41 Edinburgh Art Festival
20th Anniversary Hatty Nestor 43 Salerooms
Summertime Blues Colin Gleadell 45 Artlaw
Store-to-Own Henry Lydiate 46 Listings
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