At Manchester Art Gallery's Angels of Anarchy exhibition, the academic processing of Surrealism clashed with some of the movement's defining disavowals. Kenneth Cox reports from the shipwreck of institutional PC

I am hoping this is some kind of parody of the nigh universal tendency for (relational/new media/ all?) art to resemble the collateral campaign in The Man Without Qualities. [cf Matthew Hyland's great article on Documenta in Mute a few years back]. But it might just be a second order symptom of the disease hiding behind the illusion of a cure.

The Passive Vampire, Romanian surrealist poet Ghérasim Luca's recently translated book, brings objects and desires into intimate contact, with unexpected results. Review by Kenneth Cox

Margarita Gluzberg's fascination with the fictions that sustain capitalism seems increasingly relevant as they start to unravel in the face of the financial crisis. Here the artist talks to Peter Carty about her recent show The Money Plot

As after a violent crime, when detectives set upon the forensic residues of a now absent conflict, we may approach the papers as the scene of a financial trauma and comb their entire surface arrears (a typo - but a symptomatic one which reinforces my argument!) for clues, signs of fiscal stress and its overflow into the collective imagination.