Informant

True Lies

‘And it seems to me that it’s up to all of us to try to tell the truth, to say what we know, to say what we don’t know, and recognize that we’re dealing with people that are perfectly willing to lie to the world to attempt to further their case.’ Donald Rumsfeld by George Pendle

Books

The Vanishing

Georges Didi-Huberman’s new book examines the use of photography as evidence, and the way images of violence and trauma are understood by Brian Dillon

Interview

Looking at the Overlooked

A recent exhibition at MoMA in New York included masterpieces of everyday design such as Post-It notes, tea-bags and the Chupa Chups lollipop wrapper created by Salvador Dalí; Paola Antonelli in conversation by Emily King

View from the Bridge

This Mortal Coil

As a recent retrospective made clear, the playful and visceral work of Dieter Roth is a vivid reminder of human fragility by Robert Storr

Focus

Killu Sukmit & Mari Laanemets

Identity is something you perform – a performance restrained by norms and expectations by Jan Verwoert

Focus

Christian Holstad

Imagine your state of mind if, up late one night in a halcyon Ecstasy haze, you channel-surfed between documentaries on Glam Rock, Stonewall and Studio 54 by Christopher Miles

Focus

Emma Hedditch

Distribution, social movements and political activism are not just the content of Emma Hedditch’s art, but also its form by Sally O'Reilly

Monograph

Road to Ruin

The real, the social and the surreal merge in sculptures that reference or employ what Ed Ruscha once described as the ‘unreported artefacts’ of the urban landscape by James Trainor

Interview

A Kind of Musical Space

An interview with John Ashbery by Craig Burnett

Monograph

Mata Hari takes a Picture

Louise Lawler by Bruce Hainley

City Report

Warsaw

Increased international interest in Polish art coincides with the country joining the European Union. How do the economic and social changes affect making and showing art, and Warsaw’s urban environment? by Jan Verwoert and Lukasz Gorczyca

Criticism

Energy Fools the Magician

The artist explores themes of loss and conservation with archaic machines, extinct bird-songs, lost sounds, failed speeches, a stuffed bear, melting money, ticker tape machines, marching music and 86 car horns by Peter Eleey

Focus

Saadane Afif

Art doesn’t get much more provisional-looking than Saadane Afif’s Memory of Fire (2004) by Tom Morton

Monograph

Before and After Science

Carsten Holler by Alex Farquharson

Teresa Margolles

Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

By Amanda Coulson

Mike Nelson

Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK

By Dan Fox

Lee Lozano

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA

By Peter Eleey

Paul Thek

Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

By Ralf Christofori

Giuseppe Penone

Milton Keynes Gallery/ Centre Pompidou, Milton Keynes, UK/ Paris, France

By Nicholas Cullinan

Jennifer Pastor

Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA

By Julian Myers

MANIFESTA 5 European Biennial of Contemporary Art

Various locations, Donostia/ San Sebastián, Spain

By Dan Fox

Larry Sultan

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA

By Eve Meltzer

Shhh …

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

By Rob Young

Joe Andoe

Feigen Contemporary, New York, USA

By Megan Ratner

Roman Ondák

Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

By Catrin Lorch

David Korty

Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK

By Tom Morton

Vito Acconci

Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA

By James Trainor

Andrade Tudela

Counter Gallery, London, UK

By Mark Godfrey

Bojan Sarcevic

Carlier|Gebauer, Berlin, Germany

By Kirsty Bell

NEW04

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia

By Kit Wise

Klaus Weber

Cubitt, London, UK

By Sally O'Reilly

Toby Paterson

Sutton Lane, London, UK

By Sarah Lowndes

Nedko Solakov

Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden

By Jan Verwoert

Amy Cutler

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks+Projects, New York, USA

By Kristin M. Jones

Michel Journiac

Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

By Elena Filipovic

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The Expanded Gallery: Mass Forms for Private Consumption - Added on 13/10/07
What cultural value do industrial design, graphics and film bring to the spaces of the gallery and the museum?