>> CONTENTS October 2007
Issue No 310 www.artmonthly.co.uk
17 NEWS
ARTNOTES
20 PROFILE Lindsay Seers Michael Gibbs
COVER Sarah Sze A Certain Slant 2006
01 FEATURES Opera & Video A perfect match? Chris Townsend on the marriage between art and opera 09 Beyond Appropriation Art Mark Prince tracks contemporary retrospective strategies in recent art
16 COMMENT
EDITORIAL
LETTERS
22 REVIEWS
EXHIBITIONS Kenneth & Mary Martin Margaret Garlake 23 Prunella Clough David Ryan 24 Hannah Wilke Maria Walsh 26 Sarah Sze Eliza Williams 27 Graham Hudson Jennifer Thatcher 28 Ma Yongfeng Joel Papps Dan Smith 30 New Contemporaries 2007 David Barrett 31 On the Collective for Living Cinema Sally O’Reilly 33 10th Istanbul Biennial Teresa Gleadowe 35 Thessaloniki Biennale Roger Wollen
38 BOOKS Blake Stimson Sarah James 39 FILM Margaret Tait Rod Mengham 40 PERFORMANCE Art Now Live Rikke Hansen
41 ARTLAW Ways of Working Henry Lydiate
42 LISTINGS
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