>> CONTENTS November 2009

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COVER John Baldessari I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art 1971/2009

01 INTERVIEW

Seeing the World Askance John Baldessari interviewed by Simon Patterson

05 FEATURES

The Lost Conceptualism Mark Prince on UK v US Conceptual Art 11 Beyond Public Art

Mark Wilsher proposes redefining public art

15 COMMENT

EDITORIAL

Shake It: An Instant History of the Polaroid David Barrett 21 Thomas Demand

Alex Coles 22 Anne Hardy

Laura McLean-Ferris 23 Sonia Boyce

Colin Glen 24 Helena Almeida

Cherry Smyth 25 Shaun Gladwell:

Seven Year Linework David Trigg 26 Re-Imagining October

Coline Milliard 27 AND – Abandon

Normal Devices: Festival of New Cinema and Technology Maxa Zoller

31 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale

Anna Dezeuze 33 BOOKS

Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before Morgan Falconer 34 Modern Art Culture

Rachel Garfield 35 FILM

3rd ICP Triennial of Photography and Video Kathy Battista

36 REPORT

Bergen Biennial Conference Teresa Gleadowe

37 ARTLAW

Chapman Kelley v

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16 NEWS

ARTNOTES

20 REVIEWS

EXHIBITIONS

28 Lyon Biennale: The

Spectacle of the Everyday Pryle Behrman 30 ANTI Festival 2009

Frederika Whitehead

Chicago Park District Henry Lydiate

38 LISTINGS

EXHIBITIONS

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