No. 470, October 2023 Cover
Isa Genzken, Nefertiti, 2018
Features 1 The Colour Orange
Willem de Rooij interviewed by Mark Prince 7 Mirror, Mirror
Following the writings of Walter Benjamin and Marcel Proust, Matthew Bowman goes in search of lost experience in the commercially co-opted field of immersive art 11 Art and Urbanism
Bob Dickinson argues that citizen artists can intervene to halt the seemingly inexorable process of gentrification to benefit their communities
Profile 15 Iris Touliatou
Phoebe Cripps
News & Comment 17 Editorial 18 Artnotes
Reviews Exhibitions 24 EVA International:
The Gleaners Society Cherry Smyth 25 Isa Genzken: 75/75
Mark Prince 27 The Weight of Words
Adam Heardman 28 Leonor Antunes: the apparent
length of a floor area Martin Holman 29 Mandy El-Sayegh: Interiors
Maria Walsh 30 Oscar Tuazon: What we need
Martin Herbert 31 Lawrence Leaman: B 10 Now
Kate Morgan 32 Sara MacKillop:
Separate Volumes Adam Hines-Green Performance 33 Alexis Blake: Crack
Nerve Boogie Swerve Jenny Wu Books 34 Document of the testimony,
deliberation and reflection of the Artist Citizen Jury 2022 Juliet Jacques Film 35 Open City Documentary
Festival 2023: The Art of Non-Fiction Alex Fletcher
Reports 36 Going for Broke in Glasgow
Greg Thomas 38 Letter from Newfoundland
Chris Clarke 40 Letter from Seattle
Agnieszka Gratza 42 Salerooms
Auctions Feel the Chill Colin Gleadell 44 Artlaw
Cash In Your Face Henry Lydiate 46 Listings
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