A kraft-brown book: What’s Next? 100 Years of the Contemporary Art Society, edited by Lucy Byatt and Charlotte Troy — bold black type on humble cardboard

Publishing

What’s Next?

2011

For 100 years the Contemporary Art Society has played a unique and pivotal role in the formation of the UK’s art collections. To mark the Contemporary Art Society’s centenary year, the society developed a programme of projects, events and exhibitions in over thirty museums across the UK.

What’s Next? features the extensive output of these interventions alongside vital conversations about curating, patronage and the cultural identity of Museums and the significance of collections on the artist and creative practitioner. The book also includes its own collection of works on paper from some of the UK’s most important and emerging artists, all of whom have been supported by the Contemporary Art Society.

Featured artists, writers and curators

  • Claire Barclay
  • David Batchelor
  • Pavel Buchler
  • Yane Calovski
  • Marcus Coates
  • Richard Cork
  • Michael Dean
  • Katy Dove
  • Seamus Harahan
  • Andy Holden
  • Fiona Jardine
  • Elisa Kay
  • Torsten Lauschmann
  • Rosalind Nashashibi
  • Elizabeth Price
  • Hannah Rickards
  • Lindsay Seers
  • Sarah Skinner
  • Bob and Roberta Smith
  • Jon Thompson
  • Emily Wardill
  • Sally O’Reilly