Adrian Searle

ENGLISH TEXTSurvey by Adrian Searle, Interview by Kitty Scott, Focus by Catherine Grenier, Artist's Choice by Hannes Schneider & Arnold Fanck, Writings by Peter Doig Peter Doig (b.1959) is a pioneering artist whose work has charted a new direction in contemporary painting Doig's work has never been presented in a monograph of this scope His paintings depict atmospheric landscapes, sometimes glimpsed beneath washes of hallucinogenic colour, at other times through nets of thickly patterned marks Combining found images (including film stills, album covers and newspaper clippings) with visions of his Canadian childhood and landscapes from his studio in Trinidad, Doig has created a painted world that is uniquely his own Educated in London, his home for nearly twenty years, Doig continues to influence the latest generation of British painters Adrian Searle is Chief Art Critic at the Guardian. Kitty Scott is Chief Curator at the Serpentine Gallery, London. Catherine Grenier is Chief Curator of Contemporary Collections at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

This work consists of an interview with the sculptor Tom Friedman, in which he discusses his influences such as contemporary electronic music; a survey of his work; Friedman's choice and discussion of a play; and facsimiles of the artist's notebooks and writings.

Dorothy OGrady is uniquely placed in the annals of espionage. She was the first Briton condemned to death under the Treachery Act of 1940 after she was frequently spotted on the outskirts of Sandown (a prohibited area on the Isle of Wight), insisting time and again that her dog had strayed. Had her appeal not saved her from the gallows, she would have been the only woman of any nationality to suffer death under the Act during the Second World War indeed, the only woman to be executed in Britain for spying in the 20th century. Yet the full story of her extraordinary brush with notoriety and its enduring legacy has never been told, despite the fact that it has more than once dominated the front pages of the British press and inspired both a BBC radio drama and a novel. Now, with the benefit of access to previously classified documents, the truth underpinning the OGrady legend can finally be revealed. Following her appeal she served nine years in prison for her wartime crimes but was she really a spy in the employ of Germany? Or was OGrady, as she insisted years later, a self-seeking tease who committed her apparent treachery for a giggle? Or was there some other motivation which drove her to wartime infamy in a case which reverberated around the world? In The Spy Beside the Sea, author and journalist Adrian Searle examines all the evidence to reach a disturbing conclusion.