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CONTENTS OCTOBER 2010
Issue No 340 www.artmonthly.co.uk
COVER Barbara Kruger Past / Present / Future 2010
01 INTERVIEW
Doubling Gregor Schneider interviewed by Gilda Williams
07 FEATURES
Watching v Looking John Douglas Millar on the ethics and aesthetics of docu-art 13 Humour v Irony
Andrew Hunt suggests that humour is an intelligent alternative to the cynicism of postmodern irony
18 COMMENT
EDITORIAL
19 NEWS
ARTNOTES
24 REVIEWS
EXHIBITIONS Locky Morris: This Then Gail Prentice 25 Robert Barry:
Words and Music Rosie Lesso 26 Richard Wright
James Clegg 27 Taking Place at
The Temporary Stedelijk Coline Milliard 28 Michael Fullerton:
Columbia Jennifer Thatcher 29 Claire Barclay:
Flat Peach Colin Perry 30 Polytechnic
Maxa Zoller 31 Unsettled Objects
Omar Kholeif 33 Cornered Rooms
Laura McLean-Ferris 34 Greater New York
Kathy Battista
36 BOOKS
Speaking of Art Mark Prince 37 NET WORKS
James Coupe Maria Walsh 38 FILM
Tacita Dean: Craneway Event David Ryan
39 REPORTS
Rome: MAXXI Mike Watson 40 Vilnius: Fluxus Ministry
Larne Abse Gogarty
41 ARTLAW
Credit Where It’s Due? Henry Lydiate
42 LISTINGS
EXHIBITIONS
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