ArtReview Summer 2026

The Summer issue of ArtReview looks at our relationship with places – not as political entities, but as geographies and terrains. How do landscapes influence the lives of those who live in their midst? Cover artist Uzbek filmmaker Saodat Ismailova has consistently turned her lens towards the cultures, ecology and suppressed histories of Central Asia – a region profoundly reshaped by Soviet industrialisation; her work, writes Fi Churchman, highlights ‘the gap between what once existed and what remains.’ Stephanie Bailey speaks to Shuruq Harb, who also makes moving images, about Palestinian history and storytelling beyond politics. Chiara Wilkinson considers Ana María Devis’s forensic studies of domestic space, in which decay is treated as a generative material. Jenny Wu revisits Marcel Duchamp through questions of place and encounter, while Martin Herbert turns to another of the twentieth-century’s big hitters, Francis Picabia, whose work continually showcased an evolution of styles and mediums. Elsewhere, Clive Chijioke Nwonka looks at Arsenal’s title-winning images; Jenny Wu goes several rounds with the Philadelphian legacy of movie character Rocky; Jamie Sutcliffe reviews a newly translated science-fiction comic; Mariacarla Molè reports from Palermo; Helen Charman reflects on Olga Tokarczuk and AI; and Jessica Lanay interviews poet Nicholas Goodly. Plus reviews from around the world including Copenhagen, Berlin, London, Rotterdam, New York and Lima, as well as reviews of books by Byung-Chul Han, Daisy Dixon, Amelia Abraham, Irénée Scalbert, Lawrence Weiner and Cal Flyn. Art Observed The Interview Nicholas Goodly by Jessica Lanay Highs and Lows by Jenny Wu Aliens and Allegoria by Jamie Sutcliffe Palermo, the Orphan City by Mariacarla Molè Tools by Helen Charman Fotball Lessons by Clive Chijioke Nwonka Art Featured Saodat Ismailova by Fi Churchman Shuruq Harb by Stephanie Bailey Ana María Devis by Chiara Wilkinson Beverly Buchanan by Chris Fite-Wassilak Marcel Duchamp by Jenny Wu Francis Picabia by Martin Herbert Against Venice by Régis Debray annotated by Chris Fite-Wassilak and J.J. Charlesworth Art Reviewed Exhibitions Hurvin Anderson, by Marcus Verhagen Josiane M.H. Pozi, by Simon Wu Marina Abramovic, by Alice Godwin Carnegie International, by Jenny Wu Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, by Marcus Civin Audrey Reynolds, by Digby Warde-Aldam Speaking in Tongues, by Claudia Ross Keira Fox with Louis Backhouse and Vindicatrix, by Ethan Price Racheal Crowther, by Sonja Teszler Lina Lapelyte, by Emily May Patricio Morocho, Gaby Cepeda Katrina Palmer, by Lizzie Homersham Extraction, by Gabriel Levine Brislin Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, by Agnish Ray Rose Wylie, by J.J. Charlesworth Oototol, by Qingyuan Deng Disobedience Archive (Canopy for Broken Time), by Asya Yaghmurian In-/Visible Spectrums, by Alexander Leissle Genuine Fake Premium Economy, by Lydia Eliza Trail Books The Tonality of Thought, by Byung-Chul Han, reviewed by Mark Rappolt Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art, by Daisy Dixon, reviewed by J.J. Charlesworth Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife, by Amelia Abraham, reviewed by Bex Wade Totems: Selected Essays on Architecture, by Irénée Scalbert, reviewed by David Terrien Terminal Boundaries, by Lawrence Weiner, reviewed by Fi Churchman The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness, by Cal Flyn, reviewed by Oliver Basciano Backpage OUTSIDER