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>> CONTENTS April 2010
Issue No 335 www.artmonthly.co.uk
COVER Ian Saville Karl Marx ventriloquist prop (2nd version) c1980 Magic Show p28
01 INTERVIEW
Why Things Are The Way They Are Phyllida Barlow interviewed by Colin Perry
05 FEATURES
1965-75 Redux Francis Frascina on an unevenly remembered decade 09 Remakes
Mark Prince on artists as curators of the self
14 COMMENT
EDITORIAL LETTERS
15 NEWS
ARTNOTES
20 REVIEWS
EXHIBITIONS From Floor to Sky Colin Perry 21 Christian Boltanski
Deke Dusinberre 22 Whitney Biennial: 2010
Morgan Falconer 23 Star City
Jennifer Thatcher 25 Journeys With No Return
Klara Kemp-Welch 26 Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Maria Walsh 27 Swedenborg House:
fourteen interventions Peter Suchin 28 Magic Show
Martin Herbert 29 Crash
Peeping Tom David Barrett 30 John Smith: Solo Show
Sally O’Reilly 31 Ian Breakwell
David Briers 33 Kathy Prendergast
David Trigg 34 BOOKS
Ch-ch-ch-changes: Artists Talk About Teaching
Kathy Battista 35 Art School
Morgan Falconer 36 Seeing Witness
Francis Frascina 37 A/V
Aura Satz Paul Usherwood
38 REPORT
Letter from LA Kathy Battista
39 SALEROOMS
Vendors Return Colin Gleadell
41 ARTLAW
Polaroid: The Gift That Doesn’t Keep Giving Henry Lydiate
42 LISTINGS
EXHIBITIONS
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