>> CONTENTS February 2010
Issue No 333 www.artmonthly.co.uk
COVER Artur Zmijewski Repetition 2005 film still
01 INTERVIEW
The Politics of Fear Artur Zmijewski interviewed by Daniel Miller
05 FEATURES
Art v the Law Colin Perry discusses art that uses the law as an artistic medium 09 Art & Activism
Gavin Grindon reports on the crisis in Copenhagen
14 COMMENT
EDITORIAL 15 NEWS
ARTNOTES 19 OBITUARIES
20 PROFILE
Ben Rivers David Trigg
22 REVIEWS
EXHIBITIONS Harun Farocki Sophia Phoca 23 Terry Atkinson:
Ongoing Work from the 1990s to the Present Peter Suchin 24 Kimsooja
Paul Usherwood 1969 Morgan Falconer 26 Tim Head: Raw Material
David Briers 27 New Contemporaries
Martin Herbert 28 Seb Patane
Coline Milliard 29 Emily Wardill: Game
Keepers Without Game David Trigg
30 Martin Boyce:
No Reflections Rosie Lesso 31 Ian Kiaer/Dorothy Cross
Eliza Williams 33 BOOKS
Capitalist Realism Dean Kenning 34 Cracked Media
David Ryan 35 TV
School of Saatchi Andrew J Stooke
36 SALEROOMS
New York Colin Gleadell
37 ARTLAW
Artist’s Resale Right Henry Lydiate
38 LISTINGS
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