No. 442 December 2020 – January 2021 Cover

Lucy McKenzie Olga Korbut, 1998

Features

1 Pinboard Wizard

Lucy McKenzie interviewed by Saim Demircan 6 Looking Back in Anger:

Ten Years On Morgan Quaintance identi ies an ever-widening gap in the UK art world between social realities and the concerns of the curatocracy 10 Empire, Extinction

and Ecstasy Izabella Scott observes how the US has long been both in denial and in thrall about the concept of empire and colonialisation

Pro ile 14 Eimear Walshe

pro ile by Gwen Burlington

News & Comment 17 Editorial 18 Artnotes 23 Obituary

Anthony Hill 1930–2020

Reviews Exhibitions 25 Global Resistance

Virginia Whiles 26 To Dream Effectively

Matthew Bowman 27 Sunil Gupta:

From Here to Eternity Benoît Loiseau 28 Thao Nguyen Phan:

Becoming Alluvium Tom Denman 29 Heba Y Amin: When I see

the future, I close my eyes Kathryn Lloyd 30 Towner International

Paul Carey-Kent 31 Robert Smithson:

Hypothetical Islands Phoebe Cripps 32 Nalini Malani:

Can You Hear Me? Maria Walsh 33 Glenn Brown:

And thus we existed Mark Prince 34 Bruce Nauman

Adam Heardman Books 35 Ken Hollings: Inferno

– A Compendium of Trash Culture Laura Jacobs 36 On Care

Frank Wasser Film 37 BFI London Film

Festival: Experimenta Colin Perry 38 Jasmila Žbanić:

Quo Vadis, Aida Jasmina Tumbas Polemic 39 Lottery Lives

Michaële Cutaya

Reports 41 Letter from Dar es Salaam

Jesse Gerard Mpango 43 Letter from Dubai

Nadine Khalil 45 Artlaw

Private Parties Henry Lydiate 46 Listings

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