>> CONTENTS June 2008
Issue No 317 www.artmonthly.co.uk
COVER Glenn Ligon Face me 2007
01 INTERVIEW A Body of Work Glenn Ligon interviewed by Patricia Bickers
07 FEATURE Behind a Theoretical Iron Curtain According to Sarah James the West’s view of the art of the former Eastern bloc is still too Moscow-centred
12 COMMENT
EDITORIAL
LETTERS
14 NEWS
ARTNOTES
18 PROFILE Qiu Anxiong David Briers
20 REVIEWS
EXHIBITIONS Gregory Crewdson Alison Green 21 Pablo Helguera: The School of Panamerican Unrest Martin Herbert 22 Tamy Ben-Tor Maria Walsh 23 Mircea Cantor Coline Milliard 24 Cathy Wilkes Cherry Smyth 25 Isa Genzken Melissa Gronlund 26 Michel Franççois Andrew Hunt 27 AL & AL: Eternal Youth Bob Dickinson 28 Zombie Surfers David Barrett 30 Invention/Decoration Colin Glen 31 Janice McNab Rosie Lesso 34 BOOKS Theorising Colour Marjorie Welish 35 SOUND Luigi Nono David Ryan
36 VIDEO Dennis Oppenheim Lisa Le Feuvre 37 FILM Oberhausen Ian Hunt
38 POLEMIC Art Education JJ Charlesworth
39 REPORTS Home Works IV Beirut Teresa Gleadowe 40 Letter from Istanbul Sarah-Neel Smith
41 ARTLAW Ways of Working Henry Lydiate
42 LISTINGS
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