ArtReview & ArtReview Asia

ArtReview is one of the world’s leading international contemporary art magazines. Founded in 1949, it is dedicated to expanding contemporary art’s audience and reach. Published nine times a year, the magazine features a mixture of criticism, reviews, previews, opinion, reportage and specially commissioned artworks, and offers one of the most established, in-depth and intimate portraits of international contemporary art in all its shapes and forms. In 2013 ArtReview was joined by its sister magazine ArtReview Asia, now published four times a year, which brings a fresh and exciting new voice to the dynamic and fast-changing art scenes of the Asia region, as well as covering Asian art presented outside of the region.

In the September issue of ArtReview, Izabella Scott asks, can there be history without facts? and then examines the ways in which a number of contemporary artists are filling in gaps and deliberately misreading what is said to be known in order to develop counternarratives. In a not-unrelated fashion, Bouchra Khalili mixes fact and informed speculation as a means of illuminating undocumented pasts, as Stephanie Bailey analyses in her text. Meanwhile Sarah Jilani interviews political scientist and historian Françoise Vergès on her radical line of questioning about the continuing existence of museums in their current form. Plus: Emily McDermott on Mire Lee’s haunting lo-fi sculptures, examples of which will soon be shown in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall; opinion pieces on Oscar Murillo’s flooded garden, the death of cordel literature and the films of Marguerite Duras; and a generous serving of exhibition and book reviews from around the world.