>> CONTENTS March 2009

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COVER Liam Gillick Three perspectives and a short scenario2008 detail

01 INTERVIEW Recuperating Modernism Liam Gillick interviewed by John Slyce

07 FEATURE Now Let Us Interview Famous Men Daniel Miller

12 COMMENT

EDITORIAL 13 LETTERS

14 NEWS

ARTNOTES

20 REVIEWS

EXHIBITIONS War and Medicine Michael Corris 21 The Art of Iconoclasm Michael Gibbs 22 Fluxus David Briers 24 The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now Anna Dezeuze 25 Tate Triennial: Altermodern Colin Perry 27 This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things Paul O’Neill 28 Fischli & Weiss Marcus Verhagen 29 Superflex: Flooded McDonald’s Coline Milliard 30 Henry VIII’s Wives Eliza Williams 31 Polly Apfelbaum David Trigg 32 Anna Barriball Laura McLean-Ferris 33 Miroslaw Balka: Nothere Krzysztof Cieszkowski 34 Timecode Martin Vincent 35 Lindsay Seers Jennifer Thatcher

37 PERFORMANCE Mark Leckey: In the Long Tail David Barrett 38 BOOKS A Brief History of Curating Peter Suchin 39 Words To Be Looked At Michael Gibbs

40 REPORT Contemporary Art in the Middle East Larne Abse Gogarty

41 ARTLAW Tyson, Hirst and Hogbens Dunphy Henry Lydiate

42 LISTINGS

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