Current Issue 128 January-February 2010
Spirit Guide
The many uses of the Zeitgeist
Talk, Talk
The trials and tribulations of the international lecture circuit
Made in Berlin
Being a foreigner in Germany’s capital
Reality Check
Philosophy in 2009: The Invisible Committee; speculative realism; an all-star conference on communism; new books from Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek
Books
Literary highlights of 2009, a poetry scandal, the Man Booker International Prize, artists’ writings and a new study on Robert Ryman
Film
The best motion pictures and moving images of 2009
Design
Re-branding débâcles, online fonts, the closure of Gourmet magazine, the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus and a new film
Music
The highs and lows of 2009, including nostalgia, Alarm Will Sound and Terry Riley; Throbbing Gristle, Luke Fowler, Trembling Bells, Luc Ferrari and ‘Lust for Life’
Architecture
Unemployment, the tallest building in the world, the London Olympics, new galleries in Metz and Rome, the Shanghai World Expo and contrasting spa designs
Looking Forward 2010
frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they’re looking forward to in 2010
Emerging Artists 2009
frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose who they felt to be the most significant emerging artists of the year
Solo Shows 2009
frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant solo shows of 2009
Biennials & Group Shows 2009
frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant group shows and biennials of 2009
Auckland & Sydney 2010
Two antipodean exhibitions, ‘Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon’ and ‘The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age’, will explore ideas ranging from the role of risk-taking to the complexities of geo-politics in making art
UNP and The Building
Maria Lind and Dieter Roelstraete talk to Anton Vidokle about the informal, ‘free school’ initiatives for art that operated for two years in Berlin
Whitney Biennial 2010
Simply titled ‘2010’, and curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari, New York’s famous biennial is in its 75th year. Bonami talked to Dan Fox about ‘American-ness’ – and how, for the first time, the show will include more women artists than men
3rd Moscow Biennale
Jean-Hubert Martin’s exhibition sought to mix Russian art with work from other cultures and different times
10th Biennale de Lyon
Curator Hou Hanru turns to everyday spectacle for inspiration
10th Baltic Triennial
Turning to Vilnius for inspiration, ‘Urban Stories’ built complex narratives from fraught histories
Ramallah
Life as an artist, writer or curator in an occupied city – the administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority in the central West Bank
In Some Small Way
Explorations in size and scale in recent Japanese sculpture
Chris Ofili
Chris Ofili was born in Manchester, UK, and lives and works in Trinidad. He has had major solo exhibitions at Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany (2006), Tate Britain, London, UK (2005) and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA (2005). Ofili won the Turner Prize in 1998 and represented Britain at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. His mid-career survey show opens at Tate Britain on 27 January 2010 and will be the most comprehensive exhibition of his work to date.
David Hockney & Frances Stark
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
By Martin Herbert
Mike Kelley & Michael Smith
Sculpture Center, New York, USA
By Steven Stern
Civica 1989–2009
Fondazione Galleria Civica, Trento, Italy
By Alessandro Rabottini
Dara Birnbaum
Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
By Sam Thorne
For the blind man in the dark room …
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St Louis, USA
By Chris Fite-Wassilak
Wilhelm Sasnal
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
By Quinn Latimer
The Dark Monarch
Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK
By Michelle Cotton
David Goldblatt
New Museum, New York, USA
By Ara H. Merjian
John Miller
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
By Felicity Lunn
Manoeuvres/Maniobres
Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
By Jessica Lott
Ben Rivers
A Foundation, Liverpool, UK
By Jonathan Griffin
Lisa Oppenheim
Harris Lieberman, New York, USA
By Anne Wehr
Rosalind Nashashibi
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
By Brian Dillon
Jan Tichy
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA
By Jason Foumberg
Verena Dengler
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
By Jakob Neulinger and Translated by Nicholas Grindell
Henrik Olesen
Studio Voltaire, London, UK
By Andrew Bonacina
Anabasis: Rituals of Homecoming
Ludwik Grohman Villa and Book Art Museum, Lodz, Poland
By Goska Charylo and Translated by Krzysztof Kos´ciuczuk
Erin Shirreff
Lisa Cooley Fine Art, New York, USA
By Anna Gritz
Alan Phelan
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
By Maria Fusco
Adam Putnam
Taxter & Spengemann, New York, USA
By Katie Kitamura
Ruth Laskey
Galerie Cinzia Friedlaender, Berlin, Germany
By Kirsty Bell
Sam Porritt
Hats Plus, London, UK
By Tom Morton
Meshac Gaba
Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassell, Germany
By Amanda Coulson
Victor Houteff
Cabinet, New York, USA
By Natalie Haddad
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