CONTENTS JUNE 2011
Issue No 347 www.artmonthly.co.uk
22 PROFILE Marjolijn Dijkman Colin Perry
Provisional Painting
01 INTERVIEW Paradigm Shift Thomas Struth interviewed by Mark Prince
07 FEATURES Into the Vortex Christopher Townsend on the virtues of misanthropy 11 Photography as Work Stephanie Schwartz questions the utopian potential of digital photography
16 COMMENT editorial
17 NEWS artnotes
24 REVIEWS exhibitions Paul Graham Mark Prince 25 Narcissus Reflected Rosie Lesso 26 Revealed: Turner
Contemporary Opens Jennifer Thatcher 28 New Cartographies:
Algeria-France-UK Stephen Lee 29 Huang Yong Ping David Trigg 30 Wael Shawky Omar Kholeif 31 Eve Sussman/
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Rufus Corporation Laura Allsop 32 Young British Art Peter Suchin 33 Gareth Jones Andrew Bick
Richard Aldrich: Museo Cherry Smyth 35 books Exhibiting the New Art: ‘Op Losse Schroeven’ and
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