Issue 4
October 2015

Looking at ideas from the past in the art of the present, this issue includes the role of women in Dada, Goya’s enduring influence on modern art, the inseparable nature of Sonia Delaunay’s life and work and the hallucinatory history of artists and intoxication.

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Features
Mad World

100 years ago, a group of artists gathered in Zürich and founded dada. A new book examines the under-valued role of women to this anarchic, wildly influential movement

BY Jörg Heiser |
Features
Back To The Future

In recent years, a number of historical exhibitions have been revisited and restaged. What's behind this impulse?

BY Jo Melvin |
Opinion
Under the Influence

How art evolves

BY Jennifer Higgie |
Features , Opinion
Artists' Artists

17 artists write about a work of art that has influenced them

BY Maria Loboda, Caragh Thuring, David Bachelor, Helen Johnson, Peter Peryer, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Rannva Kunoy, Renee So, Ryan Moseley, Paul Schütze, Shahryar Nashat, Mick Peter, Glenn Ligon, Camille Henrot, Neha Choksi, Ryan Gander AND Alex Katz |
One Takes , Opinion
Delving into the Blue World of the First Female Photographer

In her book, Photographs of British Algae, Victorian botanist Anna Atkins reveals the beautiful process of cyanotype

BY Terry Castle |
Profiles
We Must Not Be Isolated

Award-winning novelist Ali Smith responds to Sonia Delaunay's joyful and 'simultaneous' approach to life, art and design

BY Ali Smith |
Profiles
Light House

Eileen Gray's restored modernist masterpiece, E.1027, has finally opened to the public

BY Olivia Laing |
Features , Opinion
Spirited Away: Hedonism and Decline

Charlie Fox traces the diverse portrayal and experience of intoxication throughout art history 

BY Charlie Fox |
Profiles
Goya: What Happens to Our Bodies

Francisco de Goya's influence on modern art

BY Matthew McLean |
Features
The Landscape is Not Empty

What early 20th Century painters omitted from their representation of South Africa

BY Sean O'Toole |
Interviews
Questionnaire: Wim Pijbes

The General Director of Rijksmuseum on the art that inspires him and why he would have loved to have listened to jazz with Piet Mondrian

Interviews
Photography: A Medium Guided by Problem-Solving

David Campany talks about his latest exhibition at Le Bal, Paris and traces photography's inherently analytical nature 

 

 

BY Jennifer Higgie AND David Campany |