ArtReview December

In this issue

Alexandre Singh
ʽThe larger thrust of Singhʼs gaming with time and space is an absolute, though not negative, refutation of the idea of human progressʼ, writes Martin Herbert in ArtReviewʼs December cover story. From The Marque of the Third Stripe, Singhʼs breakthrough work from 2008, to an alternative creation myth the artist is currently writing as a play featuring the Nesquik chocolate bunny and a character named Charles Ray, ArtReview looks at a difficult-to-categorise body of work.

Hidden Intentions
J.J. Charlesworth examines the lengths to which artists have been assimilating art with reality in recent years - community centres, corporate hospitality suites, real estate developments, chat shows - and muses on where this postmedium, postgallery, postartworld (postart!?) gambit might take us.

Sofia Coppola on Robert Mapplethorpe
The director of Somewhere, Lost in Translation and The Virgin Suicides - each thick with atmosphere and almost photographic studies of individuals - curates a show of the iconic photographerʼs work in Paris. Laura McLean-Ferris admires the overlapping sensibilities.

Plus
Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Charles Burns and a 10-page artist project by Heidi Specker called Ultimatum alla Terra, Kodak memories of ArtReviewʼs October party and Gallery Girlʼs valiant attempt to introduce a bit of self-examination into the magazineʼs pages.