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25 COVER Pierre Huyghe This is not a Time for Dreaming 2004 detail 01 FEATURES Folk Art? Dan Smith queries the status of Deller & Kane’s Folk Archive Conceptual Formalism Mark Prince on the legacy of Kenneth Noland COMMENT
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Robert Ryman Rosie Lesso Surasi Kus0lwong Paul Usherwood Pierre Huyghe Martin Herbert East International 2006 David Barrett Surprise, Surprise Lucy Steeds Gimpel Fils 60th Anniversary Sally O’Reilly Right-On, Write-Off Andrew Hunt Archipeinture Sotiris Kyriacou Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky Sarah James Douglas Gordon Jeffrey Kastner Thank You For The Music Richard Grayson

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