Contents September 2001 Issue No 249
COVER Tobias Bernstrup Potsdamer Platz Unreal Edit 2001
{01} FEATURES
cl975 and All That Jeffrey Kastner’s Letter from New York
{07} In Absentia
Deborah Schultz reconsiders the retrospective in the absence of the artist
{13} COMMENT
Editorial
{14} ARTNOTES
{20} PROFILE
Roger Hiorns Secret Secretions JJ Charlesworth
{22} EXHIBITIONS
Reviews 6th Lyons Biennale Amanda Crabtree {24} East 2001
Mark Wilsher {27} Andy Warhol &
Sound and Vision Michael O’Pray {28} Art at the Edge of the Law Michael Wilson {30} Barcelona Art Report
Jacopo Crivelli Visconti {33} The Communications
Department Dave Beech {35} Dan Graham
Alex Coles {37} Plug-In
Michael Corris {39} A Timely Place
Stephen Bury {41} Birmingham
Mark Beasley {43} Ich Bin
Axel Lapp {46} Landscape Trauma
Eddie Chambers {48} Trauma
Nicky Bird {50} Shen Yuan
Valerie Reardon
{54} POLEMIC
The Department of Free Time Kate Tregaskis
{55} EDITIONS
Artists’ Books Becoming Alec Finlay
{56} BOOKS
Do ammonia gas frozen fries go with that shake? Liam Gillick
{58} NETWORKS
Dia Projects Michael Gibbs
{59} SALEROOMS
Saatchi Sales Fail Colin Gleadell
{61} ARTLAW
The Dali Wrangle Henry Lydiate
{62} LISTINGS
Exhibitions
{52} REPORT
Globalisation and Multiculturalism Maria Walsh
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