Artist Nils Norman has engaged extensively with the language of urban planning, architecture and urban regeneration. Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles interviewed him about the positioning of his work between the mutually exclusive worlds of art and urban development

Critiques of the instrumentalised role of culture within the current stage of urban development, so-called ‘culture led urban regeneration', are becoming increasingly common. A rising crescendo of criticism may finally be denting the blithe confidence of the ‘Creative City' formula and its liberal application to all manner of post-industrial urban ills.

Stewart Martin reviews Meaning Liam Gillick, the catalogue that isn't a catalogue, inspired by its namesake's oeuvre, whose interest in the convergence of post-Fordist production and relational aesthetics isn't political

In her recent show, Kate Rich harnesses the spare baggage capacity of the globe-trotting art world to create a ‘feral trade' network of human scale exchange. John Millar has trouble suspending his disbelief

Torturing their metaphors and confusing art and business, New Labour's favourite creative consultants revealed their vision for the future of arts institutions in the age of networks. Simon Ford reports from the Cornerhouse's ‘The Art of With' conference

On visiting ‘Art in Public Places: the Archive of the Public Art Development Trust', Malcolm Miles evaluates the role of art commissioning agencies in changing the face of public art in the UK

Is the concept of ‘The Altermodern’, which organises Nicholas Bourriaud’s Spring art blockbuster at Tate Britain, anything more than re-spun curatorial spin? – asks Nickolas Lambrianou

More from Home's garrulous blog. Bourriaud, coiner of 'relational aesthetics' and erstwhile master of neologisms, meets his match in Home, the master of neoism, to his lasting damage. Here Home stops short of accusing Bourriaud of crypto-fascism with his doomed-to-fail proposition of an 'altermodernity'; one that will fuse post-colonialism and modernism in an 'archipelago' of individualism, anti-essentialism, and modernist shock tactics. As Home points out, modernity and post-colonialism always were part of the same historical development - late capitalist globalisation.