Editor’s Note

This autumn issue marks the first anniversary of GLEAN. When we reinvented the magazine, which was founded in 2006 as HART, moved our offices to Brussels and started publishing on a quarterly basis in English, it was more than a whim. By choosing GLEAN as the magazine’s title — an ode to Agnès Varda’s film Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (‘The Gleaners and I’, 2000) — and the tagline ‘Art is slow attention’, we have opted for a deliberate approach to art writing. There are many wa (…)