Contents

Foreword: You Look at the Sun

ARTISTS’ LIVES

A Spell to Repel Ghosts: Jean-Michel Basquiat

Nothing but blue skies: Agnes Martin

Keeping up with Mr Whizz: David Hockney

The Elated World: Joseph Cornell

For Yes: Robert Rauschenberg

Lady of the Canyon: Georgia O’Keeffe

Close to the Knives: David Wojnarowicz

A Great Deal of Light: Sargy Mann

Sparks through stubble: Derek Jarman

FUNNY WEATHER: FRIEZE COLUMNS

A Stitch in Time

Green Fuse

You are welcome

Faking It

Doing the Watusi

Bad Surprises

The Fire This Time

The Body-Snatchers

Dance to the Music

Paradise

A History of Violence

Red Thoughts

Between the Acts

Under the Influence

FOUR WOMEN

Hilary Mantel

Sarah Lucas

Ali Smith

Chantal Joffe

STYLES

Two Figures in the Grass: Queer British Art

Free if you want it: British Conceptual Art

ESSAYS

Feral

Drink, drink, drink

The Future of Loneliness

The Abandoned Person’s Tale

Lamentations

Party Going

Skin Bags

READING

Gentrification of the Mind by Sarah Schulman

New York School Painters and Poets: Neon in Daylight by Jenni Quilter

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

I Love Dick by Chris Kraus

Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love by Emily Witt

After Kathy Acker by Chris Kraus

The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy

Normal People by Sally Rooney

LOVE LETTERS

David Bowie, 1947–2016

Vanished into Music: Arthur Russell

John Berger, 1926–2017

John Ashbery, 1927–2017

Mr. Fahrenheit: Freddie Mercury

Say You’re In: Wolfgang Tillmans

TALK

A Conversation with Joseph Keckler

Acknowledgements

THANK YOU

Index