ART PAPERS 34.04 - July/Aug 2010

This issue tackles implementing change and personally taking action amidst the disillusionment and empty promises directly following the BP Oil Spill. Highlights include Marc James Léger's interview with cultural theorist Brain Holmes on what real change and direct intervention can actual mean and require under transnational capitalism; Zoe Beloff's interview with Niels Van Tomme, where she explains her ambitious exhibition Dreamland: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and its Circle 1926-1972 as an homage to the Jews of her grandparents' generation; and Noah Simblist's look at the play of sex, violence, and power in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Notable reviews include Felicia Feaster's examination of Andrew Moore's Detroit, Silvia Bottinelli's look at Amy Ross' Brother Wolf, and Adam Thompson's review of Liam Gillick's exhibition Discussion Bench Platforms.