Contents October 2001 Issue No 250

PCI

COVER Ken Lum Grace Chung Financial 2001

{01} FEATURES

Value Judgement Implacable convictions the criticism of Benjamin Buchloh by Michael Archer

{10} COMMENT

Editorial Letters

{12} ARTNOTES

{20} PROFILE

Gillian Carnegie Bum Paintings Lisa Panting

{22} EXHIBITIONS

Reviews

Yokohama 2001

Sachiko Namba

{24} Experiment/

Experiencia Anna Dezeuze

{26} Ken Lum

Alison Green

{27} Dan Flavin

Gilda Williams

{29} Katharina Fritsch

Cherry Smyth

{30} Franz West

Mark Wilsher

{31} Bethan Huws

Laura Moffatt

{33} Raymond Pettibon

Clare Manchester

{34} Mekons

Paul Barlow

{36} Total Object

Complete With Missing Parts Elisabeth Mahoney {38} Bloomberg

New Contemporaries 2001 Dan Smith

{41} POLEMIC

IMMA Niamh Ann Kelly

{42} EDITIONS

Thesubjectmatterofte ntendstoappearinclus ters

Ian Hunt

{45} BOOKS

SI inc

Stewart Home

{47} Sound Anthology

Joe Banks

{48} NETWORKS

Meta-languages

Michael Gibbs

{49} STATEMENT

ACE v RABs

Robert Hutchison

{50} LISTINGS

Exhibitions

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