Sculpture's recent past -- On writing about -- Ben Nicholson and the decline of cubism -- Roger Hilton : the obligation to express -- 'Englishness' and 'modernism' revisited -- The power of modernism -- Feeling the earth move -- A place of work : conceptual art as realist practice? -- Drawing : competence and incompetence -- Keeping up -- Virtual iconoclasm and real expansion -- Complexity and disinterest