In this issue Volume 42-4 London-based 2014 Adelaide Festival/Adelaide International curator Richard Grayson, along with fellow London-based curator and translator Boris Kremer both look at the exhibition Australia at the Royal Academy of Arts and how it lived up to The Guardian’s Waldemar Januszczack's “coprophilic outburst” in his review ‘A Desert of New Ideas’—that “The Royal Academy’s beaut idea to explore Australia is let down by lots of the art, which is weedy, provincial and all too European”; Sydney-based writer and artist Adam Geczy ponders Craig Walsh’s Rio Tinto commissioned Embedded at the Museum of Contemporary Art; University of Nottingham Associate Professor and Chinese art scholar Paul Gladston presents Part II of ‘”Besiege Wei to rescue Zhao”: A strategem towards a post-critical art’, completing his detailed discussion of critical stratagems engaged by Chinese contemporary artists over the past two decades; Perth poet and curator John Mateer critically observes the eff
