Current Issue 115 May 2008
Nicolas Bourriaud
The first in a new series, in which frieze asks curators, artists and writers to list the books that have influenced them
Almost Blue
The release of the film Chromophobia raises questions about authorship and appropriation
Instant Wonder
The sophistication of Polaroid technology was not enough to save it from obsolescence – or nostalgia
The Art of Giving
When patrons wrestle power from museum curators and directors, what does it mean for the public?
A Cover-Up?
The ‘hand-bra’ technique as a metaphor for rhetorical self-reflexivity in the arts
Errant Children
Can a piece of writing ever precisely convey what the writer wants it to?
Into the Wild
In the music of his techno project Gas, Wolfgang Voigt drew on Romantic landscape and classical music as much as technological minimalism
Some Rules
Thirty-five forms of contemporary creation, or how to identify an art work
Mark Leckey
In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice.
Edible Estates
Fritz Haeg (Metropolis Books, New York, 2008)
The Rest is Noise
Alex Ross (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2007)
The Intangibilities of Form
John Roberts (Verso, London, 2007)
The Mandé Variations
Toumani Diabaté (World Circuit, 2008)
Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend (XL Recordings, 2008)
Nigeria Special
Part 2: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues: 1970–6 (Soundway, 2008)
Stephen Prina
The Second Sentence of Everything I Read Is You, Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA
Prospectif Cinéma
Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
Adam Curtis
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Ways of Seeing
Marine Hugonnier’s films explore what the artist describes as an ‘anthropology of images’
Second Life
Brian Griffiths’ installations and sculptures drag their historical baggage towards an imaginary future
Motion Pictures
Mark Lewis’ meditative films fuse pictorial tradition with the art of movement
Access All Areas
Taryn Simon’s photographs of restricted locations reveal an unsettling side to the American Dream
In the Hands of God
Kris Martin’s explorations of faith and time employ myriad materials – from departure boards and novels to classical sculptures and watches
Nicholas Hlobo
Phalluses, saddles and South Africa; handmade costumes and the Xhosa language
Jimmy Robert
Touch and appropriation; film, dance and gesture
Li Dafang
Abandoned factories and sad machinery; fantasy, reality and ambiguity
Tatiana Trouvé
Something from nothing: decorated offices, reclaimed land, hope and anticipation
Looking Out
Rosalind Nashashibi’s films and photographs observe the nuances of everyday life around the world
Melbourne
From frontier town to multicultural metropolis, the second-largest Australian city embraces a grass-roots approach to culture that weaves the experience of contemporary art into everyday life
Manon de Boer
Manon de Boer is an artist based in Brussels. For the occasion of her recent solo exhibition ‘The Time that is Left’ at the Frankfurter Kunstverein and a solo exhibition at Witte de With, Rotterdam, a catalogue on her work, titled The Time that is Left, will be published in June 2008. Her work is currently on display as part of the Berlin Biennial 2008.
Whitney Biennial 2008
Whitney Museum of American Art and Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA
By Steven Stern
5th Berlin Biennial
Various venues, Berlin, Germany
By Martin Herbert
Yin Xiuzhen
Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
By Carol Yinghua Lu
Marcel Broodthaers
Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
By Martin Herbert
Contradictory
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
By Fabio Cypriano
John Young
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
By Kit Wise
Tim Braden
Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam, Netherlands
By Douglas Heingartner
Slightly Unbalanced
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA
By Jason Foumberg
Punchdrunk
Battersea Arts Centre, London, UK
By Sally O’Reilly
Antonio O’Connell
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City, Mexico
By Jessica Berlanga
We Interrupt Your Program
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, USA
By Julian Myers
Falke Pisano
BaliceHertling, Paris, France
By Vivian Rehberg
Alan Michael
Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
By Mick Peter
Aleksandra Mir
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
By Steven Stern
Santhal Family
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
By Maria Fusco
Stefan Brüggemann
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
By Tim Stott
Matthew Chambers
Broadway 1602, New York, USA
By Morgan Falconer
Paul Thek
ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
By April Elizabeth Lamm
Bianca Hester
The Showroom, London, UK
By Sam Thorne
Dan Bayles
Chung King Project, Los Angeles, USA
By Jeffrey Ryan
Beate Gütschow
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
By Christy Lange
Is That All There Is?
James Hockey and Foyer Galleries, Farnham, UK
By Richard Unwin
Barbara Bloom
International Center of Photography, New York, USA
By Kristin M. Jones
Wolfgang Plöger
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
By Dominic Eichler
Michel Gondry
Deitch Projects, New York, USA
By George Pendle
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