>> CONTENTS March 2007
Issue No 304
18 COMMENT
EDITORIAL 19 NEWS
ARTNOTES
24 PROFILE Sam Lewitt Graham Parker
COVER General Idea File magazine cover 1984
01 FEATURES Once More With Feeling Mark Prince discusses the work of artists who inject minimalist structures and conceptual strategies with an emotional charge 07 Group Practice Paul O’Neill on the collective alternative to the romantic cliché of the lone artist, curator and critic 13 Unnatural Histories Dan Smith on narrative fictions and the archival impulse in recent art
26 REVIEWS
EXHIBITIONS Mark Wallinger Richard Grayson 27 Jake & Dinos Chapman JJ Charlesworth 29 A Secret Service Sally O’Reilly 30 Johanna Billing Martin Herbert 31 Black Audio Film Collective Ian Hunt 32 Christian Marclay Tony Wood 33 Carl Plackman David Briers 35 Richard Deacon Matt Price 36 John Armleder Mike Kelley David Barrett 37 Judith Dean Judith Palmer 38 Off the Wall Rosie Lesso
39 Norwich Round-up Mark Wilsher 41 ARTISTS ’ BOOKS Joel Fisher Stephen Bury 42 BOOKS Hans Ulrich Obrist Richard Grayson 43 MUSIC & FILM Phill Niblock David Ryan
44 REPORT The Feminist Future Teresa Gleadowe
45 ARTLAW Education Henry Lydiate
46 LISTINGS
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