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Baker's Dozen

Ain’t it the Truth: Robert Lloyd of Nightingales’ Favourite Music

In the wake of Nightingales' new record The Awful Truth, the band's leader Robert Lloyd takes John Quin for a freewheeling ride through 13 significant tracks, from a boyhood love of Lulu and Lou Reed to later encounters with Faust and Freakwater
Books

The Normal: TikTok Tics & the Crisis in Psychiatry

Writer and physician John Quin reviews No More Normal: Mental Health in an Age of Over-Diagnosis by Alastair Santhouse
Art

Dig it: Mining The Deep Horizons Show In Middlesbrough

John Quin burrows away at a collaborative show in MIMA featuring work by Martin Creed, Theaster Gates, Hannah Rullmann and Faiza Ahmad Kahn
Art

Another Eden: The Phantom Threads Of Billie Zangewa

A Quiet Fire, the debut UK show by Malawi-born artist Billie Zangewa at Brighton CCA, weaves a thought-provoking web for John Quin
Art

Sound & Vision: Broken Music Vol. 2 Explores Records By Artists

A little over three decades after Ursula Block's first exhibition of artists' vinyl records, a new show at Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof looks at 70 years of records and sound works by artists
Art

Still Lives: Hannah Starkey’s Pictures Of Women

The Hepworth in Wakefield stages an impressive mid-career show from an artist whose images invite narratives without a trace of theatricality, finds John Quin
Art

The Beach Above The Street: Amalia Pica’s Rock Comb

John Quin gets his rocks off at Brighton CCA to a show about choice, discrimination, and childhood
Books

Searching for the Celtic Soul Rebels: Scottish Pop, 77–84

Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977–1984) by Douglas MacIntyre and Grant McPhee with Neil Cooper tells the story of independent music north of the border
Art

Transformer: Carolee Schneemann’s Dissidence

John Quin sees the comprehensive retrospective Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics at the Barbican
Baker's Dozen

Composites For A Generation: James Fry’s Baker’s Dozen

From the hits of Hot Chocolate and the trashy joys of Sigue Sigue Sputnik to the 'death jazz' of Miles Davis and the angst of Portishead, James Fry takes us through his life in thirteen albums
Art

Lux Non Aeterna: The Fleeting Light Works Of Richard Wright

2009's Turner Prize winner floods Glasgow's Modern Institute with irridescence
Art

The Importance Of Being Earnest: Five Highlights From Documenta 15

John Quin reports on works by Project Art Works, Richard Bell, IkkibawiKrrr and others at the fifteenth edition of the long-running exhibition of contemporary art in Kassel, Germany
Art

Billericay Mickie: Michael Landy At Firstsite, Colchester

John Quin returns to England’s most misunderstood county
Art

Your Head It Simply Swirls: The Otolith Group in Dublin

John Quin gets vertiginous at Xenogenesis in the Irish Museum of Modern Art
Art

Why Can’t They See? The Lost World Of The Twenties Group

At the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne, John Quin is enchanted by neglected work of a group of under-represented and under-privileged artists from early twentieth century Britain
Art

How Does It Feel To Feel? The Ardent Imagery Of Marlene Dumas

A comprehensive retrospective show at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Art

A Handful Of Dust: An Interview With Katie Paterson

With an exhibition of new work currently on display at Edinburgh's Ingleby Gallery, Katie Paterson talks about the anthropocene, deep time, andthe pulse point between science and art
Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Suicide – Surrender: A Collection

New York’s Suicide shared many of Andy Warhol’s obsessions and, oddly, felt right at home in Glasgow says John Quin on the release of a new compilation
Art

Making Bank: Art Galleries Get Their Home Work Marked

An exhibition at Berlin’s Neu Galerie explores the notorious ‘Fax-Baks’ of British collective, BANK
Art

Art Comes In Spurts: Allison Katz’s Artery

John Quin goes with the flow at the Camden Art Centre
Art

I Travel: Paulina Olowska Takes Us To The Booking Office

John Quin visits Christen Sveaas Art Foundation: The Travel Bureau, Selected by Paulina Olowska, an installation with works chosen by the Polish artist at the Whitechapel Gallery, London
Art

The Woman With The Sun In Her Head: Nancy Holt’s Mirrors Of Light

John Quin shines a light at the late Nancy Holt’s work currently on show in Berlin
Art

Strong & Stable My Arse: The Ephemera Of Jeremy Deller

With a show of Deller’s posters opening at Glasgow’s Modern Institute, John Quin looks at three decades of the artist’s slyly subversive interventions
A Quietus Interview

Beirut In My Gut: Jerusalem In My Heart Interviewed

Radwan Ghazi Moumneh talks to John Quin about the recent tragedy in Beirut and the brand new album made in response, Qalaq. This article features an embedded photosensitive video which may be unsuitable for those with epilepsy
Art

The Falling Man: Derek Boshier Goes K-Pop

Pioneering British pop artist and David Bowie collaborator Derek Boshier explores the Icarus myth and the Hallyu wave at Gazelli Art House, London
Art

To Infinity & Beyond: Art In The Planetarium

John Quin tries to catch the buzz at the Zeiss-Großplanetarium, Berlin, with work by Bill Ham, John Whitney, Actress, and Kara-Lis Coverdale
Art

Messthetics: An Interview With Karla Black

With a show of sculptures currently on view at the newly re-opened Fruitmarket in Edinburgh, Karla Black talks to John Quin about Actionism, quantum physics, and the future
Art

Everything Under The Sun: The Passions Of Wolfgang Tillmans

John Quin lightens up after visiting Wolfgang Tillmans at Morena di Luna, Hove
Art

Big Dick Energy: On Matthew Barney’s Redoubt

John Quin hides for cover at the Hayward Gallery visiting Matthew Barney’s Redoubt
Art

There’s A Ghost In My House: An Interview With Rachel Whiteread

John Quin interviews the artist after the opening of her new show Internal Objects at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London
Books

The Horror! The Horror! Dr Quin Recalls Glasgow A+E, Circa 1983

Medic turned critic, John Quin recalls his time at Glasgow Royal Infirmary in the early 80s in an exclusive extract from his new book, Dr Quin Medicine Man
Books

Deceptively Simple Sentences: Joan Didion On Writing

John Quin admires Joan Didion’s late collection *Let Me Tell You What I Mean*
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