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ArtReview vol 70 no 1 January & February 2018

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Time to get your hearts started again with ArtReview’s annual
shock of the new. Those of you who are such electrojunkies that
you can’t wait any longer can go straight to this year’s Future
Greats on page 54. For those of you who are wondering what’s
going on, Future Greats is ArtReview’s annual fandango in which
some of the artists, curators and writers the magazine admires
select people whose work will be inspiring, transforming,
provoking or seducing art audiences over the coming 12 months.
And in the case of at least one example among this year’s crop
(clue: it’s the first one), the chosen artists might be providing
the full fandango with castanets and tambourines too.
In a way, the Future Greats bit is one-part reflection and
one-part speculation: a reflection on the selectors’ highlights
of past experience with artworks (perhaps even issues or ‘trends’,
although ArtReview tends to put its foot down when it spies
instances of the latter) and a projection of how those experiences
will develop and continue to shine. Reflection – but also a call
to action – is the name-of-the-game in the manifestos (see page
55) we asked a selection of artists to produce around the idea
of ‘borders’ (in all their incarnations) both real and imagined.
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