>> CONTENTS November 2009
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COVER John Baldessari I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art 1971/2009
01 INTERVIEW
Seeing the World Askance John Baldessari interviewed by Simon Patterson
05 FEATURES
The Lost Conceptualism Mark Prince on UK v US Conceptual Art 11 Beyond Public Art
Mark Wilsher proposes redefining public art
15 COMMENT
EDITORIAL
Shake It: An Instant History of the Polaroid David Barrett 21 Thomas Demand
Alex Coles 22 Anne Hardy
Laura McLean-Ferris 23 Sonia Boyce
Colin Glen 24 Helena Almeida
Cherry Smyth 25 Shaun Gladwell:
Seven Year Linework David Trigg 26 Re-Imagining October
Coline Milliard 27 AND – Abandon
Normal Devices: Festival of New Cinema and Technology Maxa Zoller
31 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale
Anna Dezeuze 33 BOOKS
Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before Morgan Falconer 34 Modern Art Culture
Rachel Garfield 35 FILM
3rd ICP Triennial of Photography and Video Kathy Battista
36 REPORT
Bergen Biennial Conference Teresa Gleadowe
37 ARTLAW
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16 NEWS
ARTNOTES
20 REVIEWS
EXHIBITIONS
28 Lyon Biennale: The
Spectacle of the Everyday Pryle Behrman 30 ANTI Festival 2009
Frederika Whitehead
Chicago Park District Henry Lydiate
38 LISTINGS
EXHIBITIONS
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