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Trafalgar Square recently hosted a screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin to the accompaniment of a new soundtrack by the Pet Shop Boys. It was an event that highlighted the symbolic importance of London’s largest public square

Design

Going Dutch

Two recent books ask why design in the Netherlands is so good - but is it? by Emily King

Informant

A new travelling exhibition by the US Drug Enforcement Agency says as much about America’s relationship to the rest of the world as it does about the dangers of narcotics by George Pendle

View from the Bridge

New York's Museum of Modern Art has been transformed into an elegant Modernist museum. But what happens now? by Robert Storr

State of the Art

‘Go West, young man, go West! Grow Up with the Country!’ Horace Greeley c. 1844 by James Trainor

Art History

This Land is Your Land

Sprial Jetty is overrun with day-trippers, and you can sign up for a 'Tour of the Monuments of the Great American Void'. So much for geologic entropy by James Trainor

Monograph

Call of the Wild

David Thorpe's collages, books and sculptures describe a fantasy separatist ccommunity in a fictional wilderness - images of loneliness entwined with the appeal of solitude by Tom Morton

Monograph

Time Has Told Me

Tacita Dean's private mythologies and homages are explored through journeys and chance connections; yet the structure and logic of the work remains elusive by Mark Godfrey

Debate

Over the Border

Reporting from the outer limits of the critical frontier by Adrian Searle

Focus

Michaela Meise

A worldly post-Minimalism, understatement, a singer's lament, dissonance and Feminism by Dominic Eichler

Focus

Rosalind Nashashibi

Aimlessness and sunlight, everyday life and inrospection, communities and kitchens by Jennifer Higgie

Monograph

Nathaniel Mellors

Satire and television, debris and progressive Rock, psychotic cinema, the gallery as a liver by Sally O'Reilly

Focus

David Altmejd

Platforms and plinths, werewolves and crystals, severed heads, discos and skeletons by Christopher Miles

Debate

Debate: Ethnocentrism

Geographically defined group exhibitions abound, categorizing artists according to nationality, ethnicity, or both. Are these shows an attempt to resist the evaporation of cultural difference? Or do they fetishize locality and biography, undermining more complex approaches to looking at art? by Jean-Hubert Martin and Tirdad Zolghadr

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