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>> CONTENTS MAY 2010

Issue No 336 www.artmonthly.co.uk

14 NEWS

ARTNOTES

20 PROFILE

Mirza & Butler Maxa Zoller

COVER Mirza & Butler The Exception and the Rule 2009 film still

01 FEATURES

It Was What It Was: Modern Ruins Gilda Williams on the politics and aesthetics of ruins 05 The New

Transcendentalism Mark Prince on the rejection of relativism 09 Encountering Art

Dave Beech critiques Jacques Rancière’s concept of the ‘emancipated spectator’

12 COMMENT

EDITORIAL LETTERS

22 REVIEWS

EXHIBITIONS Richard Hamilton: Modern Moral Matters Mark Prince 23 Robert Morris

Alex Coles 25 IRWIN:

The Eye of the State Daniel Miller 26 MyWar

Omar Kholeif 27 Jenny Holzer

Paul Usherwood 28 A History of

Irritated Material Eliza Williams 29 Martin Honert

Coline Milliard 30 Jennet Thomas: All

Suffering SOON TO END! David Trigg 31 Angela de la Cruz: After

Anna Maria Maiolino: Continuous Klara Kemp-Welch 32 Art Sheffield

Life: A User’s Manual David Briers

34 Animism

Chris Clarke 35 Mark Francis

Bob Dickinson 36 Jyll Bradley

Gill Hedley 37 BOOKS

The Fall of the Studio: Artists at Work Alex Coles 38 FILM

Hannah Sawtell Maria Walsh

39 REPORTS

PhotoFilm Sophia Phoca 40 What Looms for the

Henry Moore Institute? Axel Lapp

41 ARTLAW

Street Legal Henry Lydiate

42 LISTINGS

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