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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