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Issue 105, Autumn 2003

Regular columns:
Visual Arts/North
Visual Arts South
Film and Television
Slave to the Machine
Fifth column

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Front cover: Michael Heizer: North, East, South, West, 1967/2002, installation view at Dia:Beacon; photo Tom Vinetz; courtesy Dia Art Foundation; gift of Lannan Foundation

Theme: New York

Why NY? To open our New York theme, writers both Irish and American scan the scene in the Big Apple. We begin with one of the theme coordinators, Gemma Tipton.

Why NY?: Money for something? Americans are in the habit of giving money to the arts. How does that work? Rob Alexis reports.

Why NY?: Only the exaggerations are true Cabinet is one of the best-regarded New York Art Magazines. Here Sina Najafi explains its success.

Why NY?: Twinkler Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn describes how she found one Irish artist in New York.

Why NY?: History of a show Corban Walker describes his winding road to getting a show in New York.

The art market in New York: some thoughts on venture capitalism If you can make it there, you can...Megan Johnston explains the rules.

Whispering architecture Does size matter? No, it's how you use it. Gemma Tipton is amazed at Dia:Beacon.

Behind the eight ball Allyson Spellacy takes a look across the river...

Monumental Paddy Johnson looks at architecture, memory and an intriguing icon of 'Irishness'.

In print Who's reading whose writing about whose art...? Keane A. Pepper turns the pages of what's happening.

In the shadow of the World Trade Center Liz Aders looks at the survival of art on Wall Street and thirty years of contribution by the LMCC.

Project: Mark Orange: from Untitled (24 HRS.) series 2002-2003

Features

Superficial art A recent conference at Tate Britain investigated artists' relation to surface in the digital age. Paul O'Brien reports.

Ireland complex It's been a rollercoaster ride, but where has it landed us? Brian Kennedy reports on a recent conference in Virginia which sought to get a fix on modern Ireland.

Reviews

New York: The American effect

New York: H2o at Danese

Venice Biennale: Katie Holten

Venice Biennale: Wales and Scotland

Venice Biennale: technology

Belfast: Golden Mile

Dublin: Mary Kelly at Royal Hibernian Academy

Belfast: One Place Twice at Golden Thread

Dublin, Cork, Sligo: Outsider Art in Ireland

Limerick: Padraig Cunningham at Belltable

Dublin: Dan Shipsides at Temple Bar

Belfast: Conor McFeely at Ormeau Baths

Dublin: Garrett Phelan at Pallas Heights

Dublin: Gary Hume at Irish Museum of Modern Art

Dublin: Spiritus at Douglas Hyde

Blanchardstown: Rita Jokiranta at Draíocht

Leeds: Liadin Cooke at Henry Moore Institute

Belfast: Connor Caffrey at Golden Thread

Limerick: Brian Kennedy at Limerick City Gallery

Dublin: Bridget Riley

Dublin: Eugenio Percossi

Blanchardstown: Dara McGrath

Derry: Patrick Bradley and Peter Hughes at Context

Cork: Nigel Rolfe at Crawford and St. Finn Barre's

Dublin: Axel Boesten at Gallery of Photography