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Art Design Publicity delivers news, features and reviews about Art and Design in the Age of Mass Media.
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Set to bring some REAL rock ’n’ roll to the art world—starring M. Contraband, Esq. and other truth-seekers...






00. January-February 2010, 2(1): Editorial: our music-inspired issue

01. THE CIA & LAW IN THE UK, KISS:
> Prelude - Different source. Same result

02. ACADEMIC PRETEND:
> UK libel law, property law, copyright law—and PUNK, dissertation...

03. A LITTLE HONESTY GOES—:
> (Interlude) Stallabrass, ADP, Tate Modern—A long way

04. CONTEMPORARY ART IS (NOT) RUBBISH:
> Interlude - Landy’s Art Bin - skull painting trashed - M. Contraband, Esq.


05. PRINT MEDIA POWER HANDOVER:
> Interlude - Singing the art mag blues... to Jeff Koons

06. INTERNATIONAL MEDIA COUP D’ETAT:
> A detailed, critical media analysis of the ’sale’ of that addictive diamond skull

07. ALWAYS TRUST A JOURNO:
> Interlude - Me? A publicity seeker? That really winds me up

08. 21ST CENTURY SELL OUT:
> Caught out on Abu Dhabi (Skull 2.0) (Extended remix)


IN BETWEEN In between ft. Stephen Mallinder & Billie Ray Martin

09. A MUSIC-JOURNALISM INTERVENTION:
> Interlude - by Stephen Mallinder ft. Billie Ray Martin: The Crackdown

10. READING BETWEEN THE LINES:
> Interlude - "Nowhere like Dubai" - Crackdown (Tranny Triptych Mix)

11. TRACEY EMIN BIG FUNK DRIP-FEED:
> Nine quotes, 69 placements, mindf*** mix

12. CELEBRITY BACKLASH:
> Britney Spears bites back with media punk, but why hasn’t Emin?

13. PRINT MEDIA PEEP SHOW:
> Tracey Emin media coverage vs. Cabaret Voltaire’s Kino



14. CRITICAL BREAKDOWN:
> Interlude - What the hell does that mean? Inspired by the Beastie Boys

15. RAGE AGAINST THE (PR) MACHINE I:
> Are you a well-fed media darling, or an alleycat scrambling for scraps?
Isn’t it time to Take the Power Back?


16. THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME:
> Only the press release remains (Kim Min Su)

17. RAGE AGAINST THE (PR) MACHINE II:
> "They was all punked!" (No, you mean "We were all punked...")

18. CONTEMPORARY ART IS (NOT) RUBBISH:
> Interlude - Landy’s Art Bin as inspiration - M. Contraband, Esq.


19. NEW ART WORLD, FORM:
> Mass & Swirl: A secret installation for Tate Modern

20. NEW ART WORLD, CONTENT (PROPOSAL):
> Communicating eco- (& social) art 2010: The race is on!

21. FULL-ON ART ACTION?:
What did you do when the planet was on fire?

22. "ART IS THE GREATEST GAME, THE SUPREME ENTERTAINMENT..."
> Postlude - Know hope (A variation on an Obama theme)




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