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“A fully realised still lifescape would not only include the makers of the objects represented in still life and the communities which provide their raw materials, those who prepare the dinner or banquet and clean up after it, and the printers and paper makers of the books and manuscripts …”
‘Still Lifescapes’ – Dave Beech argues that the still life should be examined in wider cultural contexts
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[image: Wayne Thiebauld, ‘Delicatessen Counter’, 1963]
“The words CCCP (Cyryllic for USSR) on Yuri Gagarin's helmet were painted there at the last minute in case the rural population mistook him for a western spy descending into the remote Russian countryside.”
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‘Space Race’ – Rob La Frenais on the other side of the story
First published in 2015
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[image: Cosmonaut Alexander Polischuk with Arthur Woods’s ‘Cosmic Dancer’ sculpture aboard Mir space station in 1993]
“Ailton Krenak has been quoted as actually welcoming the idea of humans colonising planets like Mars because it might enable the Earth to be ‘left to us’, meaning, of course, indigenous peoples.”
‘Mars Attacks’ – With Earth increasingly despoiled, Bob Dickinson asks what comes next as NASA and astro-capitalists set their sights on colonising Mars
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[image: Jonas Staal, ‘Empire’s Island’, 2023]
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“I was conscious of the ease with which renderings of the landscape can so easily become bucolic or romanticised – the trope of the simple rural ways of living that obscures the continual displacement and expropriation of land in the interests of capital.”
‘Field Work’ – Rehana Zaman interviewed by Adam Benmakhlouf
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[image: Rehana Zaman, ‘Jo Kherray So Khaey’, 2026]
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[image: Fiona Banner, ‘Every Word Unmade’, 2006–07, artist talk, 3pm 21 Mar, The Common Guild, Glasgow]
Art Monthly, Issue 494, March 2026
• Rehana Zaman – interviewed by Adam Benmakhlouf
• Mars Attacks – Bob Dickinson
• Still Lifescapes – Dave Beech
• Arash Nassiri – Profile by Matt Williams
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[cover: Rehana Zaman, ‘Soft Fruit’, 2026]
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“Leah Clements’s commitment to access is pronounced in her use of alt (or alternative) text – the verbal description of images that assists the visually or aurally impaired – in which she is one of contemporary art’s most innovative practitioners.”
Leah Clements – Profile by Tom Denman
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[image: Leah Clements, ‘My Mouth Was Vibrating’, 2022]
“The politics of imagining the US’s downfall has always been inconclusive; even as it is obliterated, these visions continue to place America centre stage. Dreams of the centre falling, after all, confirm where the centre of the world is, investing it with power even as it symbolically collapses.”
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‘Empire, Extinction and Ecstasy’ – Izabella Scott
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[image: Danh Vo, ‘Untitled’, 2020]
“Performance art had an important role in defying Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship because of its ability to sidestep censorship, and as such it features significantly in the country’s collective memory of the period.”
‘Art and Contested Memory’ – Bob Dickinson warns of the need to preserve collective memory against attempts by far-right regimes to erase it
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[image: Carlos Leppe, ‘The Singers’, 1980]
