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7 NEWS 8 NEWS IN BRIEF 10 RAVE 12 THE LEECH

_ What'sOn 25 AROUND TOWN

28 BOOKS Z9 COMICS

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39 FILM 43 DVD

55 GAY 58 KIDS

, 59 MUSIC ' 62 RECORDS

79 THEATRE 88 TV 89 VISUAL ART

Cover story: Douglas Gordon . “[985th

In 21 years of publishing, The List has never before featured the artist 95 TRAVEL and filmmaker Douglas Gordon on its cover. Ewan McGregor has made 98 pARTY! it four times, Franz Ferdinand three, but the country’s most successful 104 ENGAGE

artist? Against the backdrop of the media feeding frenzy at London’s

Frieze Art Fair earlier this month, it is telling that Scotland has only just

woken up to its powerful visual art community. The rest of the world has Real-View

been falling over itself to exhibit and buy Gordon’s work since 1996, -

when he brought the art world’s biggest award, the Turner Prize, back to "2 ANSWER MACHINE: . . . . . HUGH CORNWELL

Glasgow. So, now that the National Galleries are finally givmg Gordon a AND FINALLY . . .

retrospective, we salute him in our extended feature on page 20.

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