Like our cover artist Hayley Millar Baker alludes, having ‘something to say’ runs throughout this July/August issue. Millar Baker talks about photography and memory, Robert Andrew speaks about language and his new work at Mona, Susan Norrie is chronicling the tragic forces of the world, Nicola Scott is capturing moments of domesticity and cinema, and Daniel Boyd takes us inside his beguiling studio and practice. Artist and curator Brenda L Croft tells the tremendous story behind a 1990s photograph—you won’t believe the wealth of talent in one image—and we look at the hundreds of millions of funding funnelled into museum and gallery buildings in the last few years. Does this come at the cost of supporting artists, or is it the investment we need?