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18 A Dissenting Voice Now Visible Ai Weiwei examines cultural and historical tensions in his first major institutional survey.
19 View from the Global Crossroads London’s Whitechapel Gallery looks back on two decades of work by Emily Jacir this autumn.
20 Truth & Other Casualties of War Omer Fast interrogates the idea of objective truth through narrative-based documentary.
21 Travels in Time & Imagination An exhibition spanning 30 million years of time charts Pierre Huyghe’s illustrious career.
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22 Luminosity and Long Shadows Philippe Parreno orchestrates a collaborative survey of his multi-disciplinary installation art.
23 Art within the Danger Zone Artists deliberately embrace risk, acknowledging its vital role in creating works in everyday life.
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26 Alpine Constructs New Swiss Architecture provides an assessment of architecture from the past decade, set against an alpine backdrop of mountain peaks and lakes.
56 Strata Unravelled Massachusetts-based Laura McPhee shows large-scale photographs that evoke questions about attitudes towards the places we inhabit.
38 Redefining Americana Diffusion International Festival of Photography explores international photographic perspectives on contemporary American society and culture.
68 State of the Art Chicago showcases over 100 international innovators in spatial design, in the extraordinary city which forged the world’s first skyscraper.
44 Joie De Vivre Parisian photographer Guillaume Lechat encompasses a lively, refreshing synthesis of fashion, lifestyle and documentary imagery.
74 Lost Leisure Mark Havens depicts the disappearing midcentury motels of Wildwood, New Jersey, bringing out the interplay of an idealised past.
86 Solitary Anticipation Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf captures the apprehension of waiting in his recent series, located in the space between hope and regret.
92 Personal Celebration Lilli Waters’ delicate and audacious work, with its elemental atmosphere, offers an insight into the complexity of its subjects.
104 Beguiling Nocturnes Greg Girard documents the beauty in urban surroundings, playing up the characteristics that render these scenes seductive in their decay.
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128 Tales of Migration & Endurance Pedro Costa, the visionary Portuguese director, returns to the people of Lisbon’s gritty Fontainhas slum, the setting of his latest film, Horse Money.
132 A Taste of Bittersweet Catharsis The therapeutic process of recording is captured in Salt, Roseau’s autobiographical new album, which conjures a bittersweet chapter of her life.
133 Capturing Cold War Nostalgia The corduroy-donning duo Public Service Broadcasting worked with over 30 musicians to make their second LP, The Race For Space.
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136 Moving Architecture Designer Hussein Chalayan constructs a brave new world on stage as he combines fashion, architecture and performance at Sadler’s Wells.
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162 Noémie Goudal Noémie Goudal takes to the sky, developing ideas on the man-made and the organic in a new photographic series Southern Light Stations.
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22 10 to See 122 Exhibitions 128 Films 135 Music
141 Live on Stage 143 Books 152 Directory 162 Last Words
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