In this issue, you'll find many changes: a fresher look, a bold new logo, and a host of original sections. These include Artist's Collection, a private view of an artist’s personal treasures; Meeting of Minds, in which an artist poses five questions to his or her artistic hero; an Architecture & Design column; and On Location, which will shine a spotlight on a different city each month.

We'll also bring you more of everything you've come to expect from us: reporting from around the world, incisive features, profiles of emerging and established talents, previews and reviews of exhibitions, and sumptuous artist portfolios.

To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we are publishing, for the first time in the magazine's history, four separate covers. They make up two-thirds of the six panels in Passport Control (reproduced on pages 78 and 79), by British artist Mark Wallinger, who is profiled by our European editor, Martin Herbert. Defacing his own photobooth portraits with a few strokes of his pen, Wallinger wittily and powerfully shows that the ethnic differences many people consider to be significant are largely superficial.

All of us at Modern Painters are excited about this new era for the magazine. We hope you’ll enjoy it with us.

—The Editors

"Welcome to a relaunched Modern Painters" originally appeared in the September 2008 issue of Modern Painters. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Modern Painters' September 2008 Table of Contents.