WINTER 2012 - ART IS MAGIC DELIVERED FROM THE LIE OF BEING TRUE? - SOLD OUT

SELF-CONSCIOUS ILLUSION? ART, MAGIC AND MODERNISM

PARTICIPATION IN RATIONALITY: ART’S DISAVOWAL OF MAGICAL PRACTICES (ITS ANTECEDENTS)

‘THE MODERN IS ABSTRACT BY VIRTUE OF ITS RELATION TO WHAT IS PAST; IRRECONCILABLE WITH MAGIC, IT IS UNABLE TO BESPEAK WHAT HAS YET TO BE, AND YET MUST SEEK IT, PROTESTING AGAINST THE IGNOMINY OF THE EVER-SAME.’

HALF-WAY BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND MYSTICAL THOUGHT? LEVI-STRAUSS ON THE SYNTHESIS CONSTITUTING ART

‘THE MAGIC OF ART’? ART’S ALLERGY TO A RELAPSE INTO MAGIC

SMOKE AND MIRRORS: THE PERSISTENCE OF ART’S MAGICAL HERITAGE

BIENNIALS: EVERYTHING IN THESE PLACES IS MAGIC - EXCEPT FOR THE MAGICIANS

’THE AUTONOMOUS WORK OF ART DOES NOT ITSELF BELONG ON THE SIDE OF MYTH… BUT IS INHERENTLY DIALECTICAL; WITHIN ITSELF IT JUXTAPOSES THE MAGICAL AND THE MARK OF FREEDOM.’

CONFERENCE REPORT: ONLY THE CONTRADICTIONS ARE TRUE - CONTEMPORARY ART + CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM [DIGITAL]

‘ART WILL ALWAYS BE THERE’ - WILL IT?

ESCAPE ZONES: WHY THE MAGICAL POWER OF ART SPACE IS NOT ENOUGH AND ARTWORKS MUST HAVE SUFFICIENT HISTORICAL CONTENT TO QUICKEN AND TRANSFORM EXPERIENCE AND ULTIMATELY SOCIETY, EVEN

THE EXPERIENCE OF ART AS HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE: BLASTING THE WORK OUT OF THE LIFE WORK, THE LIFE WORK OUT OF THE EPOCH, AND THE EPOCH OUT OF ITS REIFIED HISTORICAL CONTINUITY

‘WHEN SOMEBODY’S WEARING A MASK, [S/]HE’S GONNA TELL YOU THE TRUTH. WHEN [S/]HE’S NOT … IT’S HIGHLY UNLIKELY’: CONJURING THE ROLLING THUNDER REVIEW (2019)

THE NEW ARTIST-FUNCTION OF THE EAST: THE CHANGING FUNCTION OF THE ARTIST IN CHINA TODAY

NEWS: FAUX-PAS ACQUISITION? WORK ACQUIRED AS PART OF NEW GLOBAL COLLECTING INITIATIVE TURNS REVEALED TO BE BY SOMEONE POSING AS MARGINAL ARTIST FROM FROM THE GLOBAL MARGIN WHO ACTUALLY LIVES AND WORKS IN THE CENTRE (THE WEST)

FRANCIS BACON, METAPHYSICIAN?

REVIEW: ’THE PUSH’; OR, HOW READILY WE HAND OVER AUTHORSHIP OF OUR LIVES

REVIEW: ‘SMOKE AND MIRRORS: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MAGIC’ - WELLCOME COLLECTION

THE NEW OLD MASTER PAINTER? THE NATIONAL’S APPARATUS OF CAPTURE (OF THE NEW BY THE OLD); OR: HAMILTON’S LATE REACTIONARY RESERVE? REVIEW: RICHARD HAMILTON: THE LATE WORKS - THE NATIONAL GALLERY