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‘Theaster Gates’, writes Christian Viveros-Fauné in his cover story on the Chicago artist, ‘instinctively knew that places that need but can’t possibly afford culture today provide contemporary art with something it’s been sorely lacking: purpose.’ Meanwhile, the London Reviews Marathon – covering 50 exhibitions in one long day – blows back into town. And Stanislaw Lem is this issue’s unofficial theme, appearing in Marie Darrieussecq’s story of a summer detour to the Polish great’s onetime home, and in Jonathan T.D. Neil’s account of Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation’s work whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir(2011). |