No. 480 October 2024 Cover
Alia Farid, Palm Orchard, 2022, installation view, Henie Onstad, Oslo
Features 1 Misfits
Nairy Baghramian interviewed by Anna Souter 5 Rest is Resistance
Bob Dickinson looks at how artists are drawing attention to the structural parallels between the climate crisis and sleep crisis 9 Cones of Vision
Chris Townsend sees recent ahistorical approaches to Anthony McCall’s work as indicative of a general shift from process and form towards subjective experience
Profile 13 Alia Farid
Maria Walsh
News & Comment 15 Editorial 16 Artnotes 20 Obituaries
Rebecca Horn 1944–2024 Mel Ramsden 1944–2024
Reviews Exhibitions 23 Take a Breath
Chris Clarke 24 Towards New Worlds
Tom Denman 25 What if Women
Ruled the World? Part 2 Sophia Phoca 27 Charlie Prodger:
Cardinal Beams Vaishna Surjid 28 stanley brouwn
Andrew Chesher 29 Hany Armanious:
Stone Soup Daniel Culpan 30 Marlene Smith: Ah, Sugar
Cathy Wade Simnikiwe Buhlungu:
hygrosummons (iter.01) Isabelle Bucklow Artists’ Books 31 Matt Smith: The Tories
Are The Real Criminals Ben Burbridge Books 32 Mark Polizzotti:
Why Surrealism Matters • Catriona McAra: The medium of Leonora Carrington – A feminist haunting in the contemporary arts Anna Dezeuze 34 Hannah Regel:
The Last Sane Woman Juliette Desorgues Film 35 Now Wave: Beth B – Glowing
Rachel Pronger 36 Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff:
THEATER George Macbeth
Reports 37 Letter from Vilnius
Michael Kurtz 39 Letter from Skopje
Jon Blackwood 42 Salerooms
Smaller Returns Colin Gleadell 44 Artlaw
Disclosure of Buyers Henry Lydiate 46 Listings
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