Contents October 2003 Issue No 270

{18} COMMENT

Editorial Letters

{20} ARTNOTES

{24} PROFILE

Window Gallery Marketa Uhllrova

COVER IRWIN Irwin Live 1998

{01} FEATURES

The Undead Morgan Falconer finds few signs of life in the so-called new expanded field of painting {07} Op Stars

Forgotten fad or future art Vincent Pecoil looks at the legacies of Op Art {13} Curator and Artist

Alex Farquharson on the new alliance between the performative cur ator and the relational artist in the postproduction of art

{26} EXHIBITIONS

Reviews Boyle Family David Briers {27} Not Always The Same

Sally O’Reilly {28} Peter Suchin

David Hopkins {30} Beyond the Endgame

Dan Smith {32} Abstraction Now

Axel Lapp {33} 1want! 1want!

JJ Charlesworth (35) Mariele Neudecker

Martin Herbert {36} Damien Hirst

Michael Corris {37} Franz West

Marcus Verhagen

{38} Claire Barclay

Sar ah Tripp {39} The Bogside Artists

Ian White {40} The American Effect

Karen Rosenberg

{40} EDITIONS

Artists’ Books The Burrower Stephen Bury

{45} ARTLAW

Space Race Part 2 Henry Lydiate

{46} LISTINGS

Exhibitions

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