Our Summer 2024 issue is a well-travelled affair: from women artists in the heights of the Himalayas to Richard James combing the far reaches of the Outer Hebrides, abstract painting and pots in the south of France to Patrick Procktor, eleven stories up, in Central Park South, we’ve plenty of cultural destinations. Japanese aesthetics of imperfection, historic and contemporary, feature in our two ceramics highlights, while a recent gallery acquisition reveals the behind the scenes of a major art history coup when Brenda met Picasso. We hope you enjoy your trip, wherever you decide to go...

CONTRIBUTORS

Michael Kurtz is an art critic based in London. He read History of Art at the University of Oxford where he won the Gibbs Prize in 2019. Since then, his writing on contemporary art and visual culture has appeared in e-flux, Art Review and The London Magazine, and in 2023 he won the International Award for Art Criticism. He now works as listings editor at Art Monthly and research assistant to Michael Peppiatt.

Aurélise Bouquet is an engineer, traveller and independent researcher. She has most recently worked for the French Ministry of Ecological Transition after having worked for several years in the airline industry. Having regularly visited Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas since 2016 and developed a strong interest for the region, she has over the last couple of years been researching archival images of Ladakh, curating brief visual essays online based on early images of the region, as well as curating small exhibitions in Ladakh. Currently, her research focuses on a dozen women-artists-travellers who visited and painted Ladakh between 1900 and 1947.