29 January 2010
Other Voices
The death was announced this week of the reclusive American writer J.D. Salinger, author of one massively influential novel, The Catcher in the Rye. Written in 1951, Salinger’s tale of teenage rebellion and intellectual precocity has to date sold some 65 million copies and remains a much-loved work of American literature. Salinger’s death will be widely reported, yet this week saw the passing of another bestselling US writer, one far less well-known than Salinger, yet someone who gave voice to rebellion and alienation in other ways: Howard Zinn, who died aged 87 in Santa Monica, California.
by Dan Fox
| 2 responses 07 January 2010 Magazines and newspapers in late December and early January are awash with ‘best of…’ roll-calls of the past 12 months and forecasts for next dozen, and the current January–February issue of frieze is no exception. But before 2010 unfolds too far, there’s one item I really feel deserves mention as one of the real highlights of 2009: the DVD box-set released last year by the British Film Institute entitled Gazwrx: The Films of Jeff Keen. Gazwrx surveys the 50-year – that’s right, 50-year – career of British artist and filmmaker Jeff…
Categories: Art, Film, Icons
by Dan Fox
| 1 response 11 December 2009 The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced the list of artists for its 2010 Biennial, curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari. The exhibition, simply entitled ‘2010’, will feature the work of 55 artists, along with selections, from the museum’s permanent collection, of work from previous Whitney biennials stretching back to the 1930s. An interview with Francesco Bonami about the Biennial will be published in the January/February edition of frieze. Categories: by Dan Fox
| 3 responses 25 November 2009 The New York Times reports that a major survey studying the effect the recession is having on American artists has been published by non-profit artist-support organization Leveraging Investments in Creativity, in collaboration with Princeton Survey Research Associates International and the Helicon Collaborative, a consulting firm that advises non-profit groups. When it comes to discussions about art and money, there is the popular and erroneous assumption (usually parroted in the UK by newspaper columnists who should know better) that, just because super-remunerated artists such as Jeff Koons or Tracey Emin earn a tidy wage, the vast majority of contemporary artists…
Categories: Art, News
by Dan Fox
| 1 response 03 November 2009 It’s been announced that Claude Lévi-Strauss, the well-known French anthropologist, also regarded as one of the most influential Structuralist thinkers, has died, aged 100. Categories: Icons, Obituaries
by Dan Fox
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Categories: Books, News, Obituaries
‘A comic strip of Life, printed on Semtex’*: the films of Jeff Keen
Whitney Biennial 2010 artist list announced
Hard Times
Claude Levi-Strauss, 1908-2009
