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COVER Atelier Populaire Soutien aux usines occupéées pour la victoire du peuple 1968

01 FEATURES Dada Daddy Jennifer Thatcher on what masculinist revisionism could learn from feminism 07 A Fugitive Calculation Can art be simultaneously anachronistic and yet current asks Adam E Mendelsohn

12 COMMENT

EDITORIAL

LETTERS

16 NEWS

ARTNOTES 19 DECORVDECORUM

22 REVIEWS

EXHIBITIONS Jack Pierson Roger Cook 23 Seamus Harahan Cherry Smyth 25 Adel Abdessemed – Trust Me Colin Perry 26 Torsten Lauschmann Rosie Lesso 27 Peter Campus Chris Meigh-Andrews 28 If – people and places in recent film and video David Barrett 30 Here We Dance Coline Milliard 32 Kate Davis: Lull Kirsten Norrie 33 Asia Triennial Bob Dickinson 34 5th Berlin Biennial: Day Teresa Gleadowe 36 5th Berlin Biennial: Night Sarah James 37 Things that go bump in the night Eliza Williams 39 ARTISTS’ BOOKS Sean Ashton Rikke Hansen 40 BOOKS The Hornsey sit-in David Briers

41 Art and Revolution Reuben Fowkes 42 FILM Luke Fowler Stewart Home

43 REPORT Letter from Paris Sarah-Neel Smith

44 POLEMIC Berlin: Public v Private Axel Lapp

45 ARTLAW Legal and Business Services Henry Lydiate

46 LISTINGS

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