CONTENTS March 2016
Issue No 394 www.artmonthly.co.uk lackout 2016
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COVER Sanja Ivekovic Make Up 1979
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1 INTERVIEW Blackout Jordan Baseman interviewed by David Barrett
6 FEATURES Art and the Chthulucene Jamie Sutcliffe takes a worm’s eye view 10 Getting Art What does visiting a gallery offer the viewer asks Paul Carey-Kent
13 COMMENT EDITORIAL
14 NEWS ARTNOTES
18 PROFILE Hrair Sarkissian Omar Kholeif
20 REVIEWS EXHIBITIONS Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art Patricia Bickers 21 Monuments Should Not Be Trusted David Briers 22 Stan Douglas: The Secret Agent Mark Prince 24 Larissa Sansour: In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain Tom Emery 25 Dinh Q Lê: The Colony Stephen Lee 26 Iván Argote: An Idea of Progress Kathryn Lloyd 27 Park McArthur: Poly Chris McCormack 28 Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966) Lynton Talbot 30 AL and AL: Incidents of Travel in the Multiverse Laura Robertson
31 Condo Chris Fite-Wassilak 33 ARTISTS’ BOOKS Lost and Exhausted Michael Hampton 34 BOOKS The Gulf: High Culture/Hard Labour Maja & Reuben Fowkes 35 REPORTS Letter from Sarajevo Bob Dickinson 36 Dhaka Art Summit Virginia Whiles
37 ARTLAW Moving Image and the Law Henry Lydiate 38 LISTINGS
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