No. 454, March 2022 Cover

Becky Beasley BACK! (B/W), 2021

Features 1 Still Life

Becky Beasley interviewed by Mark Prince 7 On the Surface

Michaële Cutaya argues that our preoccupation with depth has blinded us to the importance of the surface

Profiles 11 Alicja Rogalska

Profile by Rose Higham-Stainton 13 Blue Curry

Profile by Paul Carey-Kent

News & Comment 15 Editorial 16 Letters

Eddie Chambers Paul Carey-Kent Morgan Quaintance 17 Artnotes 26 Obituaries

Laura Buckley 1977–2022 Richard Rome 1943–2022

Reviews Exhibitions 27 Keith Piper: Jet Black Futures

Amna Malik 28 Testament

Chloe Carroll 29 Data Streams

Chris Hayes 30 Tako Taal: At the shore,

everything touches Rae-Yen Song: ▷▥◉▻

Adam Heardman 32 Candice Lin: Pigs and Poison

Chris Fite-Wassilak 33 Bryan Giuseppi Rodriguez

Cambana: Ópera de Balcón Tom Hastings Andrea Fraser: This meeting is being recorded Olivia Aherne 35 2021 Triennial:

Soft Water Hard Stone Sarah Messerschmidt Books 36 McKenzie Wark: Philosophy for Spiders – On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker John Douglas Millar 38 Hatty Nestor: Ethical

Portraits – In Search of Representational Justice Alex Hull Silvia Casini:

Giving Bodies Back to Data – Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Jack Smurthwaite 39 Object Lessons: Case Studies in

Minimal Art – The Guggenheim Panza Collection Initiative Chris Clarke Films 40 Berlinale Forum and

Forum Expanded Matt Turner 42 Dwoskino: Evan Ifekoya,

Margaret Salmon and P Staff Laura Jacobs

Reports 43 Letter from Kaunas

Will Jennings 45 Artlaw

The Emperor’s New Code Henry Lydiate 46 Listings

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