ArtReview Summer 2026 Issue Explores Land, Identity, and Place

The Summer 2026 issue of ArtReview is now available, focusing on the relationship between people and landscapes beyond political boundaries. The cover features Uzbek filmmaker Saodat Ismailova, photographed by Claudio Fleitas in Paris, May 2026. Inside, Fi Churchman writes on Ismailova's two-decade career examining Central Asia's cultures, suppressed histories, and environmental devastation from Soviet industrialization. Shuruq Harb discusses with Stephanie Bailey her approach to Palestinian history through narrative fragments. Chiara Wilkinson explores Ana María Devis's forensic work on a decaying bed. Jenny Wu writes on Marcel Duchamp's survey at MoMA, New York, emphasizing art as physical encounter. Martin Herbert examines Francis Picabia's stylistic inconsistency. Other features include Jenny Wu on the Rocky legacy, Jamie Sutcliffe on an alien-inspired 1980s comic, Mariacarla Molè on Palermo's art scene, Helen Charman critiquing Olga Tokarczuk's AI use, and Clive Chijioke Nwonka on Arsenal's Premier League win. Nicholas Goodly is interviewed by Jessica Lanay. Reviews cover exhibitions by Marina Abramović (Copenhagen), Katrina Palmer (Rotterdam), Lina Lapelytė (Berlin), Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (New York), Patricio Morocho (Lima), and books by Byung-Chul Han, Daisy Dixon, Amelia Abraham, Irénée Scalbert, Lawrence Weiner, and Cal Flyn.