>> CONTENTS April 2009

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COVER Glenn Brown Suffer Well 2007

01 INTERVIEW Painting Paintings Glenn Brown interviewed by David Trigg

05 FEATURES Reel Time Mark Prince on the illusion of presentness in real-time film 09 Gaza Francis Frascina revisits Lament of the Images

14 COMMENT

EDITORIAL

LETTERS

16 NEWS

ARTNOTES

20 PROFILE Elizabeth McAlpine Chris Townsend

22 REVIEWS

EXHIBITIONS Emily Jacir Morgan Falconer 23 Mark Wallinger curates: The Russian Linesman Lucy Steeds 24 Subversive Spaces David Briers 26 Rank: picturing the social order 1516-2009 Michelle Cotton 27 Ray Johnson: Please Add to & Return Martin Herbert 28 Sean Snyder Laura McLean-Ferris 30 The Otolith Group Part 1: A Long Time Between Suns Stephen Lee 31 Michael Dean Colin Glen 32 Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Water Between Coline Milliard 32 Matt Stokes Paul Usherwood

33 George Shaw: Woodsman Michael Bracewell 35 BOOKS Alternative Economics Alternative Societies Dave Beech 36 FILM Jane & Louise Wilson: Unfolding the Aryan Papers Maxa Zoller

37 REPORT Undoing the Aesthetic Image Iwona Blazwick

39 SALEROOMS Signs of the Times Colin Gleadell

41 ARTLAW Leibovitz Futures Henry Lydiate

42 LISTINGS

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