January 2008

FEATURE: CINEMA OF THE STREET 48 ‘Reality’ television and YouTube have exploded the fourth wall between performer and viewer, creating a world that feels more like a stage than ever. The work of Dara Friedman, Doug Aitken, Tony Conrad and Karin Schneider addresses the new cinema of the street. Alan Licht

MANIFESTO 19 Jacob Dahl Jürgensen

DISPATCHES 21 Trisha Donnelly’s first retrospective; Peter Friedl in São Paulo; Dan Brown’s perfect woman; Shirin Neshat’s latest installment of Women Without Men; a Russian vision of a consumer paradise from Dubossarsky & Vinogradov; Top Five: the pick of art to see this month as selected by Maria Lind; Under the Influence: Anri Sala on gaps; George Condo on using original musical instruments

CONSUMED 32 This season’s art-fashion musthaves: Richard Prince bags for Louis Vuitton, plus Damien Hirst’s Levi’s; new prints from Ellen Altfest, Matthew Day Jackson and Huma Bhabha; Lisa Anne Auerbach’s knitted Drainpipe Kozies; an edition from Susan Hiller; wooden action figures by designers Constantin and Laurene Leon Boym; blackly humorous furniture by Atelier Van Lieshout

TALES FROM THE CITY 36 London, J.J. Charlesworth New York, Joshua Mack

FEATURE: KRIS MARTIN 42 Why you should clock on to the young Belgian artist who has stopped time and planted a bomb under the artworld stage Jessica Morgan

FEATURE: JOHN BALDESSARI 52 One of the most significant artists of our time looks at his highly varied career, considers the future of contemporary art and explains what makes Lawrence Weiner run Jonathan T.D. Neil

FEATURE: REAL TRUE SERIOUS: ART IN A BRAND NEW WORLD 58 Does something happen to a work of art when it hangs in a shop window? How does it maintain its integrity as art? As the love affair between art and fashion brands reaches new extremes, we look at the implications and ask, is it worth it? Christopher Mooney on the cover: KRIS MARTIN photographed by ROBI RODRIGUEZ

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John Baldessari, Arms & Legs (Specific. Elbows & Knees), etc.: Arms with Cowboy Hat, 2007, three-dimensional archival print laminated with Lexan and mounted on Sintra with acrylic paint, 184 x 152 cm. Courtesy Marian

Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris