>> CONTENTS December-January 07-08 Issue No 312 www.artmonthly.co.uk
COVER Jaki Irvine In a World Like This 2006 video still
01 FEATURES What Can We Do with Photography? Sarah James proposes ways in which photography can transform aesthetics 07 Opera & Video Classical music can offer art a new creative paradigm suggests Chris Townsend
12 COMMENT
EDITORIAL
LETTERS
13 NEWS
ARTNOTES
20 REVIEWS EXHIBITIONS The World as a Stage Michael Corris 22 Thomas Schüütte Teresa Gleadowe 23 Forms of Resistance Michael Gibbs 25 Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now Jennifer Thatcher 27 Smith/Stewart Kirsten Norrie 28 Anri Sala Rikke Hansen 29 Geoffrey Farmer Colin Glen 31 Oona Grimes Peter Suchin 32 Presque Rien 1 Martin Herbert 33 Trisha Donnelly Jaki Irvine Marcus Verhagen 34 The Third Mind Andrew Hunt 37 Catherine Sullivan Chris McCormack 38 ARTISTS’ BOOKS Wolfgang Tillmans Andrew Wilson 39 BOOKS Darby English David Marriott
Winter Reading Ian Hunt 41 FILM Warhol’s Screens Michael Gibbs 42 PERFORMANCE Beacon Art Project Dean Kenning
43 SALEROOMS Crisis What Crisis? Colin Gleadell
45 ARTLAW Online Sales Henry Lydiate
46 LISTINGS
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