ContentsIssueNo262 Dec/Jan 02-03

COVER Cornford & Cross Avant Garde 1997/2002 detail (photograph courtesy of Brighton Local Studies Library) {01} INTERVIEW

Mirror Images Douglas Gordon interviewed by Jean Wainwright {07} FEATURES

Reality Check J J Charlesworth asks whose reality is it anyway? {13} COMMENT

Editorial Letters 14} ARTNOTES [22} EXHIBITIONS

Reviews Smith/Stewart Mark Wilsher

{23} Cornford & Cross

Dave Beech {24} All you need to know

Paul Usherwood {26} James Ireland

Alicia Miller {27} Model Forms:

Sculpture and Architecture in 1950s and 60s Britain Martin Herbert {28} Matt Franks

Clare Manchester {29} Jonathan Parsons

Morgan Falconer {31} Susan Collins

Emma Safe {32} Tracey Emin

Michael Gibbs {33} Cornelia Parker

Maria Walsh {35} Bandwagon Jumping

Nick Crowe {36} Groove

Beryl Graham {37} Tim Head

Axel Lapp {38} Mamma Andersson

Sally O’Reilly {40} EDITIONS

Artists’ Books The Phone Book David Chandler {41} BOOKS

Left Shift Bill Drummond

{41} We Are All Normal

Caryn Faure Walker {42} Winter Reading

Andrew Wilson {44} FILM

Alfred Leslie Ian Hunt {45} NETWORKS

Who Controls New Media? Michael Gibbs {46} SALEROOMS

Now you see i t ... Colin Gleadell {48} ARTLAW

Theft, Lies & Videotape Henry Lydiate {50} LISTINGS

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