CONTENTS FEBRUARY 2012

Issue No 353 www.artmonthly.co.uk

COVER Bea McMahon InDivisible 2010 detail

01 FEATURES False Lion Can art and audiences resist biennialisation asks Francis Frascina 05 Arabic Agendas Omar Kholeif on western appropriation of art from the Arab world 09 Out of this World Paul O’Kane redefines outsider art

14 COMMENT EDITORIAL LETTERS 17 NEWS ARTNOTES 20 PROFILE Bea McMahon Chris Fite-Wassilak

22 REVIEWS EXHIBITIONS Performa 2011 Kathy Battista 23 Performance Matters: Trashing Performance Morgan Quaintance 24 Catherine Opie Eliza Williams 25 Kai Althoff: Kaiki Kathy Noble 27 The Indiscipline of Painting Mark Harris 28 Terry Smith Jennifer Thatcher 29 Paul Caffell Christopher Townsend 30 Republic of the Moon Bob Dickinson 31 Museum Show Part 1 & Part 2 Stephen Lee 33 ARTISTS’ BOOKS Bookwork: Medium to Object to Concept to Art Stephen Bury

34 BOOKS Steven Shaviro: Post-Cinematic Affect Maria Walsh 35 Mark Amerika: remixthebook Morgan Quaintance 36 FILM Zagreb International Film Labs Meeting Maxa Zoller 37 Tony Morgan Christopher Townsend 38 REPORT Korea: Seoul Searching Paul O’Kane 39 SALEROOMS Outgunned Colin Gleadell 41 ARTLAW Bought and Sold Henry Lydiate 42 LISTINGS EXHIBITIONS

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