This issue takes on postwar counterculture, looking particularly the 1940s Bohemian New Yorkers who would decamp to Provincetown for the summer.
By Christopher Turner
Read the Letter

Yinka Shonibare, MBE
Edward Tufte
Patricia Esquivias
No Sound
Richard Long
Irwin
"JOL"
Fleur Elise Noble
Julieta Aranda

An Artist of Our Time
Merlin Carpenter could be the way to go...or not.
By Matthew Collings

The Way of All Flesh
Berlinde De Bruyckere’s waxen corpus.
By Sarah Douglas

Beats Art
Richard Prince collects signed first editions, manuscripts, letters — even canceled checks — by Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs.
By George Pendle

The Gallery as Brain
A new show at the Hayward explores the architecture of the mind.
Brian Dillon

Modern Ruins
Glenn Brown distorts the art historical canon.
By Lyra Kilston

Live Forever
Marco Papa’s interdisciplinary, participatory practice yields surprising results.
By Ara Merjian

The Singularity Problem
Why is Liam Gillick, a 45-year-old British artist, representing Germany at this year’s 53rd Venice Biennale?
By Steven Henry Madoff

Painting Paradox
Modern Painters talks to painter Charline von Heyl about the pains and pleasures of the creative process.
By Claire Barliant, Christopher Turner

An Elegant Mind
Robert De Niro talks about his father the painter and the SoHo studio that he’s preserved as a shrine to his memory.
By Christopher Turner

Aesthetics of Dilapidation
Jeffrey Richard Stockbridge has been photographing abandoned homes in Philadelphia for five years. Now he’s taking portraits of the people who live among the ruins.
By David Grosz

Cornelius Cardew and the Freedom of Listening
The Generational: Younger Than Jesus
Mira Schor
Sarah Crowner
Jefferson Pinder
Abel Auer
Madelon Vriesendorp
Dan Graham

74 When in...

When in... Basel

The prestigious art fair brings the crowds, but this Swiss city has more to offer than just dealer booths.

Considering Forgiveness
Forgiveness’s current vogue relects the social, psychological, and political necessity of addressing various 20th and 21st-century brutalities.
By Sasha Archibald

Jen Stark puts five questions to Frances Trombly
Discussing the transformation of mundane objects into exquisite works of art.