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PROFILE FrenchMottershead Mark Wilsher REVIEWS
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Sex Objects Cherry Smyth Winter Reading Ian Hunt 46
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27 COVER Roman Signer Tent 2002 01 FEATURES Death Decay and the Everyday Anna Dezeuze on the aesthetics of change and uncertainty Dead Funny Sally O’Reilly on the art of comedy Back in the USSR Sarah James on the unwritten story of Eastern Bloc conceptualism COMMENT
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Gary Hill Chris Townsend Jimmie Durham Dean Kenning Graham Fagen Nicky Bird Suzanne Treister David Barrett Richard Billingham Rikke Hansen In the Face of History Twilight Alison Green Albert Oehlen Michael Corris Daniel Buren Teresa Gleadowe Michael Craig-Martin Niamh Ann Kelly Felix Gonzalez-Torres/ ¸ Ayse Erkmen Christine Hill Thomas Hirschhorn Axel Lapp

Janice Kerbel Lucy Steeds 47
FILM

Andy Warhol Gilda Williams 48
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Sublime Mundanity Michael Gibbs 49 ARTLAW Planning Law Henry Lydiate LISTINGS
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