CONTENTS DEC-JAN 2011-12

Issue No 352 www.artmonthly.co.uk

Gerhard Richter John Douglas Millar 23 Malcolm Le Grice:

01 INTERVIEW Cairo Stories Judith Barry interviewed by Omar Kholeif le temps des images Aoife Rosenmeyer 24 Jesse Jones:

The Struggle Against Ourselves Chris Clarke 25 Bani Abidi:

40 artists’ books Again, A Time Machine David Trigg 41 Stuart Griffiths: The Myth of the Airborne Warrior Maria Fusco 42 books Winter Reading David Barrett 43 sound Sottovoce David Ryan

07 FEATUREs The Great Divide Christopher Townsend on the marketing of avant-garde film 11 TV Makeover Colin Perry on the vexed relationship between art and TV

16 coment editorial letters

19 News artnotes

22 reviews exhibitions

Section Yellow Paul Usherwood 26 Anna Barriball Cherry Smyth 27 Democratic Parade David Briers 28 3rd Athens Biennale 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale

Anna Dezeuze 30 12th Istanbul Biennial

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Jennifer Thatcher 31 11th Lyons Biennale Chris Sharp 32 Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard: Romeo Echo Delta Mark Prince 33 You, Me, Something Else Rosie Lesso 34 London Round-up Chris Fite-Wassilak

44 report The 29th Biennial of

Graphic Arts Dave Beech 45 Artlaw Change of Art Henry Lydiate 46 listings exhibitions

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