>> CONTENTS June 2007
Issue No 307 www.artmonthly.co.uk
COVER Yael Bartana Trembling Time 2001 video still, detail
01 FEATURES Wall of Silence Anna Dezeuze on art and the climate of censorship that bedevils relations between the US, Israel and the Palestinians 07 You cannot be serious: Art Politics Idiocy by Dean Kenning
14 COMMENT
EDITORIAL
LETTERS
15 NEWS
ARTNOTES 22 REVIEWS
EXHIBITIONS WACK! Mike Sperlinger 23 Matthew Buckingham John Slyce 24 Le Nouveau Réalisme Deke Dusinberre 26 The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China Sally Lai 27 Martin Creed Martin Herbert 28 Anya Gallaccio Maria Walsh 29 Stay forever and ever and ever David Barrett 31 Simon Bedwell John Russell Andrew Hunt 32 Roderick Buchanan James Clegg 33 Rosalind Nashashibi Melissa Gronlund 34 Roni Horn Gill Perry 35 New York Round-up Morgan Falconer
38 BOOKS Women Artists at the Millennium Joan Key 39 Zoo and Frieze Lisa Le Feuvre
40 SOUND Sonia Boyce David Ryan
41 ARTLAW Anticipating Future Uses of Work Henry Lydiate
42 LISTINGS
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