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State of the Art

Call Yourself a Critic?

The untidy tradition of criticism by Sam Thorne

Pretty, Pretty Good

Tell Tales

How memory has changed by Jennifer Allen

State of the Art

Lip ServiceSubscriber only

From the Vatican to the Venice Biennale: the limits to symbolic acts of altruism by Jörg Heiser

Postcard

City Living

The shifting landscape of contemporary art in Beijing by David Spalding

In These Intemperate Times

Decade-ismRegistered only

How taste and preferences change by Lynne Tillman

Weekend Special

Bodies of EvidenceRegistered only

Artists respond to migration in Africa by Sean O’Toole

Interview

The Italian JobRegistered only

Massimiliano Gioni discusses his plans for the 55th Venice Biennale, ‘The Encyclopaedic Palace’ by Barbara Casavecchia

Technology

Loop the LoopRegistered only

A brief history of the GIF by Morgan Quaintance

Books

BooksRegistered only

Oulipo and the re-release of Raymond Queneau’s 1947 Exercises in Style by Charlie Fox

Film

After LifeSubscriber only

A new film reconstructs Félix Guattari’s unproduced sci-fi script by Erik Morse

Politics

Dirty MoneyRegistered only

An artist-led guided tour of corruption in the Czech Republic by Noemi Smolik

Music

MusicRegistered only

The dub rhythms of artist and composer Marina Rosenfeld by Dan Fox

Ideal Syllabus

Ideal Syllabus: Gary PanterRegistered only

Artist Gary Panter draws and discusses the books that have influenced him by Gary Panter

State of the Art

Talking Shop

How do you define jargon? by Sam Thorne

TV

Little Women

At least five current TV shows include the word ‘girl’ in their title. What’s going on? by Timotheus Vermeulen

Art Criticism

Time Regained

The collected writings of Richard Bartholomew, one of India’s pre-eminent art critics by Shanay Jhaveri

Publishing

Open Up

The mutating activities of DIS by Kevin McGarry

Design

Life in Design

In a new occasional column, frieze asks a respondent to nominate the objects, people or ideas that have influenced them by Alice Rawsthorn

Museums

Here & There

Tate Modern and African art by Lara Pawson

Music

Dream Screens

Remembering Antony Balch, filmmaker and distributor extraordinaire by William Fowler

Music

Music

From The Jazz Singer to Nick Cave, music’s conflicted relationship with the movies by Franklin Bruno

State of the Art

Net Gains

Claire Bishop versus the Internet by Paul Teasdale

Satire

Phantomville

A specially commissioned drawing for frieze by Sanarth Banerjee

The Art World

Can I Go Now?

Trying to leave the art world by Dieter Roelstraete

In These Intemperate Times

Marking Time

Boredom and death: two sides of the same coin? by Lynne Tillman

Weekend Special

Style & Content

The post-colonial essay by Sean O’Toole

Exhibitions

Beyond the Frame

Painting as performance in recent exhibitions by Theo Altenberg

Technology

Games & Systems

Digital art in Cuba by Rachel Price

Books

Books

'Presentism’ versus ‘future shock’ by Orit Gat

Music

Music

21 years of wildly inventive recordings – and a new album – by the Baltimore-based duo Matmos by Charlie Fox

Looking Back

Music

Music

From retro to repro, and beyond by Dominikus Müller and Geeta Dayal

State of the Art

Learning by Heart

What can art teach us about happiness? by Jonathan Griffin

Satire

New Year Quiz

New Year Quiz by Tom Morton

Pretty, Pretty Good

Free Wheeling

On limousines, road trips and mobility by Jennifer Allen

Other cities, other seas

Everything & Nothing

On working as an artist in Beirut today by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Informant

Horror Vacui

Trevor Paglen and the final frontier by George Pendle

Participation

Conversation Pieces

Taking part in Tino Sehgal’s These associations by Agnieszka Gratza

Activism

What Next?

How Occupy influenced New York’s art scene by Tirdad Zolghadr

Books

Books

Three new publications about globalization and contemporary curating by Sam Thorne

Ideal Syllabus

Ideal Syllabus: Andrea Büttner

In an ongoing series, frieze asks an artist, curator or writer to list the books that have influenced them by Andrea Büttner

Satire

What’s Hot, What’s Not

My practice is ...

In These Intemperate Times

Of Its Time

How do artists respond to current events? by Lynne Tillman

Weekend Special

High & Lows

The rise and fall of biennials in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal and South Africa by Sean O’Toole

Pretty, Pretty Good

What’s in a Word?

Do we live in a time of ‘patho-politics’? by Jennifer Allen

Architecture

Dear Yona

A letter to the visionary architect Yona Friedman by Jean-Baptiste Decavèle

Music

Music

The repercussions of Frank Ocean’s coming out by Geeta Dayal

Design

Longing & Belonging

Measuring success in community design projects, from Dakar to Newfoundland by Jennifer Kabat

Film

Leaps of Faith

The new wave of social-realist storytelling in American cinema by Bert Rebhandl

Books

The Year in Books

Journals, poems, biography and ‘direct implication’– the year in books by Quinn Latimer

State of the Art

Up in the Air

Looking at art from different angles by Christy Lange

Film

Time Traveller

Remembering Chris Marker by Jeremy Millar

State of the Art

Warhol’s Canada

What constitutes ‘real work’ in the cultural sphere? by Tom Morton

Pretty, Pretty Good

Ways of Being

Looking back at John Berger’s G. and Ways of Seeing, published 40 years ago by Jennifer Allen

Books

Books

The life and work of the late, great experimental writer, Christine Brooke-Rose by Natalie Ferris

Informant

Art for All?

The display of museum collections: a modest proposal by George Pendle

Other cities, other seas

Ramallah Syndrome

Artistic responses to the question of Palestine by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Life in Film

Life in Film: Clemens von Wedemeyer

In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the films that have influenced them by Translated by Nicholas Grindell

Books

Music

35 years of Steven Stapleton’s Nurse With Wound by Bob Nickas

Design

Tears of a Clown

Exhibiting comics: the graphic novels of Daniel Clowes and his contemporaries by Eugenia Bell

Photography

Point & Shoot

Conflicts in high-definition by Christina Zück

Satire

Permissions

Dear Mr Jankel... by Ned Beauman

Ideal Syllabus

Ideal Syllabus: Katerina Gregos

In an ongoing series, frieze asks an artist, curator or writer to list the books that have influenced them by Katerina Gregos

Satire

Spam the Barricades!

For this special art and activism-themed issue of frieze, gymnast / collector / dealer / gun-runner Jean-Philippe Obu-Stevenson has granted us an exclusive extract from his memoir of a life in art and politics, Keeping Myself Occupied (Editions Obu-Stevenson, 2013) by Jean-Philippe Obu-Stevenson

In These Intemperate Times

The Hardest Thing

What constitutes political art? by Lynne Tillman

Pretty, Pretty Good

The Art Hangover

Spectatorship, fatigue and addiction by Jennifer Allen

Music

Music

The Aztec imagery and digital soundworld of Mexican producer Javier Estrada by Jace Clayton

Weekend Special

The Modern Game

Imagination, football and the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe by Sean O’Toole

Performance Art

Taking Place

Performance art in Burma by Elizabeth Rush

Never Enough

AIDS activism now and then – 25 years of ACT UP and Gran Fury by Jennifer Kabat

Books

Books

Three new publications on socially engaged art by Claire Bishop, Creative Time and Pablo Helguera by Ana Teixeira Pinto

State of the Art

Shouts & Murmurs

Art’s disputed relationship to activism by Jennifer Higgie

Design

Emigre Ugly Faces

From Virtual Reality to Computer Graphics, the media has made much of technology's impact on the culture industry. Nowhere has this impact been more visible than in the field of Graphic Design. Emigre, a small group of West Coast designers, are at the forefront of the field, publishing typefaces that are demanding of designers and readers alike. Stephen Mayle spoke to Rudy Vanderlans, Editor of Emigre.

Art

Painting

Visible Energy

David Lillington spoke to Albert Irvin about the position of abstract expressionism today.

State of the Art

Dear Claes ...

What kind of art do you stand for? by Dan Fox

Trend Analysis

What’s Hot, What’s Not

Eggs, poodles, Minimalism?

Pretty, Pretty Good

A Taste of Politics

Art and the Cold Civil War by Jennifer Allen

Informant

To Die For

A brief history of deadly art by George Pendle

Other cities, other seas

Stand Up

One woman’s protest in Damascus by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Money

If I Were a Rich Man

The shifting iconography of the wealthy by Adam Kleinman

Criticism

Talk, Talk

When does bar-room debate count as criticism? by Peter Coviello

The Art World

Echo Chamber

Is today’s art too self-referential? by Dieter Roelstraete

Music

Music

In new interviews, Conny Plank’s collaborators – including Brian Eno and Holger Czukay – remember the radical music producer. by Geeta Dayal

Books

Books

Bertolt Brecht and the media today by Gemma Sieff

Architecture

Life in Architecture

The first in an occasional series in which an artist, curator or writer discusses the buildings and environments that have most influenced them by Pablo Bronstein

State of the Art

Open Eyes

Online or in person? The different ways of paying attention today by Kirsty Bell

Satire

Write of Spring

Life is a quotation. Sort of. by Jennifer Higgie

In These Intemperate Times

There, Not There

How our attitudes betray us by Lynne Tillman

Weekend Special

Made in Pyongyang

The controversial history of the $28-million African Renaissance Monument in Dakar by Sean O’Toole

Pretty, Pretty Good

Right & Wrong

Have American conservatives taken over transgression? by Jennifer Allen

Music

Do It Yourself

New York’s energetic community of experimental music and film venues by Dan Fox

Icons

Every Day is Good

One hundred years of John Cage by Rob Young

Ideal Syllabus

Ideal Syllabus: Brian Kennon

In an ongoing series, frieze asks an artist, curator or writer to list the books that have influenced them by Brian Kennon

Debate

On Your Marks

The conflicted cultural legacy of the London 2012 Olympics by Tom Morton

Architecture

Towers of Babble

The ArcelorMittal Orbit and the recent history of large-scale folly by Douglas Murphy

Books

Books

Non-linear reading by Jenna Sutela

Music

Music

A voyage of discovery to Belgium’s Popcorn clubs by Bob Stanley

State of the Art

Face Time

What does our interest in the face tell us about contemporary methods of communication? by Jörg Heiser

Satire

From the Mailbox

At frieze we receive hundreds of emails every day from artists, galleries and public relations companies around the world. We would like to share some excerpts with you. Names have been blocked out to protect the guilty. But they know who they are.

Art History

Other cities, other seas

A Time of Gifts

The donation of an art collection to the American University of Beirut has prompted plans to create two new galleries in Lebanon by Kaelen-Wilson Goldie

Economics

Pretty, Pretty Good

Face Value

The changing appearance of money by Jennifer Allen

Questionnaire

Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei

Art

The thrill of it all

'An artist inventor of undimming good humour, whose work provides the soul with strength to face a not too terrible hereafter.' by Michael Bracewell

Think Piece

Blurred VisionsRegistered only

What do drones see? And how can we see them? by Christy Lange

Monograph

In Your HeadRegistered only

The surreal, oddly familiar world of Nicole Eisenman by Jennifer Higgie

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Joe Orton’s bedroomSubscriber only

The Islington bedroom where the playright was bludgeoned to death by Ilsa Colsell

Think Piece

Mascots & MusesRegistered only

From eroticism to transcendence, the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Andy Warhol has many surprising overlaps. Ara H. Merjian traces the affinities and contradictions between an unlikely pair

Focus

In Focus: Petrit HalilajRegistered only

The Kosovar artist’s biographical narratives and loaded artefacts

Focus

Focus Interview: Ian ChengSubscriber only

Motion-capture choreography, street fights, Looney Tunes and ‘hybrid cinema’ by Kari Rittenbach

Monograph

Thought MapsRegistered only

Gianfranco Baruchello’s long career encompasses painting, sculpture and film as well as farming and psychoanalysis by Luca Cerizza

Interview

Organic SystemsRegistered only

Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas talks to Kathy Noble about creating with clay, sculpture-as-film and team-work by Kathy Noble

Influences

My Influences: Helen MartenRegistered only

The artist discusses skeuomorphism, skins and soup by Helen Marten

Focus

Focus Case Study: Peles EmpireRegistered only

A collaboration that began with a castle in the Carpathians by Amy Sherlock

Focus

In Focus: Emily FloydSubscriber only

Utopian Modernism, children’s toys and art in the public realm by Wes Hill

Interview

Other CriteriaSubscriber only

From his Conceptual art of the 1960s to his recent computer-generated works, Victor Burgin has consistently explored the virtual nature of images and words. He talked with writer and curator David Campany by David Campany

Think Piece

Studio SpacesSubscriber only

A number of recent exhibitions and artist projects have utilized the architecture of the television studio. How does this tendency relate to TV’s shifting significance as a cultural form? by Maeve Connolly

Books

Books

Richard Meyer’s new publication: What Was Contemporary Art? by Robert Barry

Interview

The Real World

Artist Matthieu Laurette and the prolific curator, collector and dealer Seth Siegelaub discuss the legacy of Conceptual art, the origins of curating and how art history is made. by Vivian Sky Rehberg

City Report

Oslo City Report

Europe’s fastest-growing city is home to a supportive community of artists, curators and writers. From independent spaces in the Grønland neighbourhood and the influential Academy of Fine Art to OCA’s uncertain future and Renzo Piano’s divisive Astrup Fearnley Museet, Jason Farago and Milena Hoegsberg report from the Norwegian capital by Jason Farago and Milena Hoegsberg

Monograph

Code Maker

The hermetic, inventive world of Thomas Scheibitz

Focus

Focus Interview: Hannah Perry

Filmmaking as a ‘series of introductions’ by Sam Thorne

Focus

Focus Interview: Yuki Kimura

The Japanese artist discusses photography and the viewer as an intermediary by Andrew Maerkle

Think Piece

On Rupture

How artists and curators have responded to upheaval in the Arab world, from 1967 to the present day by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Monograph

Social Works

Keith Coventry’s fusion of cultural commentary and Modernist art by Michael Bracewell

Focus

In Focus: Julia Sherman

Cultural anthropology via impersonation, pageantry and apprenticeship by Carmen Winant

Focus

In Focus: Emilie Pitoiset

Withholding, covering up and glimpsing the secret world of objects by Rahma Khazam

Survey

Being Curated

Dan Fox invited eight artists and artist groups to reflect on their relationships to curators and curatorial discourse. Alongside responses from Ed Atkins, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Nick Mauss, Tom Nicholson, Paulina Olowska, Slavs and Tatars and W.A.G.E., Daniel Buren reassesses his 1972 statement ‘Exhibiting Exhibitions’ by Dan Fox

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Vicente B. Ballestar

The pulp paintings of  Vicente B. Ballestar by Sarah Khan

Questionnaire

Questionnaire: Gerard Byrne

Q: What should change? A: Deregulated global financial systems, obviously. Nothing else would have quite the same impact on the prospects of so many people.

Monograph

A Step Out Of Time

Sylvia Sleigh’s extraordinary ‘history pictures’ by Quinn Latimer

Influences

My Influences: Alexandra Bachzetsis

Artist, performer and choreographer Alexandra Bachzetsis on her influences by Alexandra Bachzetsis

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Frescoes in the Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara

Francesco del Cossa’s frescoes in the Hall of the Months by Jan Verwoert

Think Piece

All for One

What makes a successful artist-run institution? by Alexander Provan

Focus

Focus Interview: Lucas Blalock

The Los Angeles-based artist discusses his photographic process in which tableau and accident meet by Carmen Winant

Focus

In Focus: Charlotte Prodger

Online subcultures, elusive narratives and structural film by Nicole Yip

Monograph

The Man Who Wasn’t There

Jonathan Griffin on Anthony Pearson by Jonathan Griffin

Interview

Whoever Wants It

Jean-François Chevrier talks to Mark Sadler about his new book on artistic hallucination by Mark Sadler

Focus

In Focus: Marwa Arsanios

The historic layers of Beirut’s neighbourhoods; the fine line between collaboration and individual practice by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Focus

In Focus: Danilo Correale

Alternative studies of continental branding, subjectivity and our data-driven societies by Barbara Casavecchia

Monograph

Strolling with the zeitgeist

Six decades of avoiding being categorized by Brian O’Doherty

Questionnaire

Questionnaire: Laure Prouvost

Q: What music are you listening to? A: The very best of Italian pop songs. I'm back from six months in Italy - ciao Italia! by Laure Prouvost

Monograph

House & Home

On the occasion of a major touring retrospective that marks four decades of the artist’s work, Michael Famighetti considers the changing American landscape in the photographs of Robert Adams by Michael Famighetti

Focus

Studio Visit: David Brian Smith

Shepherds and colonialism, appropriation and the Romantic tradition by Amy Sherlock

Focus

Focus Interview: Laida Lertxundi

The Los Angeles-based filmmaker discusses cities, soundtracks and landscapes

Influences

My Influences: Eli Sudbrack

Eli Sudbrack of assume vivid astro focus writes about the people, places and artists that have influences his collaborative multimedia practice by Eli Sudbrack

Interview

The Whole Thing

British artist David Batchelor talks to Cuban-American painter Carmen Herrera about her 80 years of making art by David Batchelor

Monograph

Taken for Wonders

How Paul Elliman responds to the spaces, objects, words and sounds that surround him by Jennifer Kabat

Focus

In Focus: Rodrigo Braga

Conflict, communion and making human presence resonate in the landscape by Silas Martí

Interview

Give Me Shelter

Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi and Mark Fisher discuss exhaustion, the financial crisis, aesthetic resistance and the ‘slow cancellation of the future’ by Mark Fisher & Franco 'Bifo' Berardi

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Mechanical Turk

The chess-playing automaton that defeated Napoleon by Jason Farago

Monograph

Men Without Women

The paintings, drawings and animations of Tala Madani by Aram Moshayedi

Focus

In Focus: Ruth Buchanan

Meaning, memory and mockery by Jan Verwoert

Questionnaire

Questionnaire: Jonas Mekas

Q. What should stay the same? A. Clean air, clean earth, clean water. by Jonas Mekas

Interview

Brand, New

This year, the Billy Apple® brand turns 50. The artist formerly known as Barrie Bates talked to Anthony Byrt about a career of collaborations and controversies that has consistently redefined art’s relationships with advertising, science and technology by Anthony Byrt

Think Piece

Costume Drama

From Oskar Schlemmer and Cindy Sherman to Seth Price, Michael Portnoy and K8 Hardy, generations of artists have employed the codes of fashion and costume design. Vivian Sky Rehberg takes stock of the traffic between the worlds of art and dress by Vivian Sky Rehberg

Looking Back

The Year in Review - UK

Some highlights from the year's exhibitions by Sam Thorne

Looking Back

The Year in Review - Film

Some highlights

Looking Back

The Year in Review - France

Arts and letters by Elodie Royer & Yoann Gourmel and Translated by Nicholas Grindell

Looking Back

The Year in Review - Germany

The unsettling installations of Rabih Mroué by Ellen Blumenstein and Translated by Nicholas Grindell

Looking Back

The Year in Review - Mexico

The growth of public institutions in Mexico City by Tatiana Cuevas

Looking Back

The Year in Review - Europe

The little things that stood out in 2012 by Daniel Baumann and Translated by Nicholas Grindell

Looking Back

The Year in Review - Australia

Biennials, new commercial galleries and the reopening of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney by Charlotte Day

Looking Back

The Year in Review - China

Anti-Japanese protests and the 18th National Congress have meant a rocky year in China by Carol Yinghua Lu

Looking Back

The Year in Review - Egypt

Arts after the revolution by Yasmine El Rashidi

Looking Back

The Year in Review - Brazil

Confidence and resolve in the Brazilian art scene by Silas Martí

Think Piece

Energy & Rue

There is a resurgence of interest in the essay, with collections by Jonathan Lethem, John Jeremiah Sullivan and the first biography of David Foster Wallace all published this year. Is it possible to define a form that stretches from Michel de Montaigne to Wayne Koestenbaum, from Virginia Woolf to Chris Marker? Brian Dillon surveys this enigmatic field, and asks whether this centuries-old tradition might be the genre of the future

City Report

Amsterdam City Report

To coincide with the long-delayed reopening of the Stedelijk Museum, which closed its doors in 2003, frieze commissioned three reports from the Dutch capital. Nick Aikens reviews the renovated museum, Maxine Kopsa takes stock of last year’s cuts to cultural budgets, and Timotheus Vermeulen considers the impact of the recent national elections by Nick Aikens, Maxine Kopsa & Timotheus Vermeulen

Looking Back

The Year in Review - LA MOCA

Contemplating recent events at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles by Douglas Fogle

Looking Back

The Year in Review - USA

Changes in historical perspective that are shaping art being made today by Katy Siegel

Monograph

Various Elements

On the occasion of a major retrospective at M HKA in Antwerp, Jimmie Durham talks to Kirsty Bell about enthusiasm, itinerancy, cities, poetry and Cherokee mythology by Kirsty Bell

Influences

Influences: Geta Brătescu

I have been influenced by the authority of art. Everything that I’ve seen in museums or cathedrals on my travels – in Italy, Greece, Germany, France, the UK and Denmark – has had an impact on me through the incontrovertible truth of its imagery. In other words, a drawing (whose authority lies in the drawing) cannot be contradicted.

Monograph

For This Thing To Happen

Roe Ethridge’s work circulates in the worlds of fashion, commercial and art photography. Christy Lange considers his ‘chaotic inventory’. by Christy Lange

Roundtable

Frames Of Reference

In recent years, the work of self-taught artists has come to be contextualized within larger narratives of contemporary art. How is Outsider Art best understood and what does this definition mean when ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ become blurred? How does it relate to fraught issues of education and exclusion, originality and exploitation? Jonathan Griffin invited Robert Gober, Matthew Higgs, Paul Laffoley and David Maclagan to discuss these questions by Jonathan Griffin

Focus

Focus: Shana Moulton

The New York-based artist talks about character, the West Coast, process and slime by Graham T. Beck

Focus

Focus: Kiluanji Kia Henda

Post-colonial Angola; photography as both ‘pliable fiction’ and ‘weapon of intervention and denunciation’ by Sean O’Toole

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: the Chanel lamppost

Coco Chanel and the Duke of Westminster by Jennifer Higgie

Focus

Focus: Mircea Nicolae

Interventions in Bucharest's history of state bureaucracy and brutalist architecture by H.G. Masters

Focus

Focus: Nicolas Deshayes

Polystyrene and Post-Minimalism; industrial processes and the ‘skin’ of amorphous forms by Kathy Noble

Design

A Lot of Small Things

Thomas Lommée’s inclusive approach to modular design by Emily King

Film

Image Games

For 35 years, Ericka Beckman has been making films which combine choreographed set pieces and ‘designed camera movements’ that anticipate the work of a new generation of artists by Isobel Harbison

Space Man

The preoccupations of the late American artist Robert Watts ranged from anthropology to the space race, from fast food to the Cold War. Annette Leddy explores how the Fluxus member sought to bring the universe into the home by Annette Leddy

Film

Look into the Camera

Since the early 1960s, Peter Watkins has explored film’s potential as a medium of communication and catharsis for actors and audiences alike by Jonty Claypole

Monograph

What Matters Most

Often enlisting entire communities, Czech artist Kateřina Šedá’s projects raise questions about the pros and cons of an artistic practice that purports to be for the good of its participants by Christy Lange

Art

Focus

Interview

Redmond Entwistle

Redmond Entwistle on the making of Walk-Through (2012), a film about Michael Asher’s ‘Post-Studio’ class at CalArts. by Mike Sperlinger

Focus

Focus: Adrien Missika

Melancholy and entropy haunt the French artist’s films and photographs by Tom Morton

Monograph

Designs for Life

Theaster Gates is an artist, musician and activist based in Chicago. Mark Godfrey travelled to four cities to gain a deeper understanding of his unique approach to the intermingling of art with urban regeneration by Mark Godfrey

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: The Cycle Savages

Bikesploitation and art: The Cycle Savages by Dan Fox

Focus

Focus: Liz Magic Laser

Newsrooms, agitprop theatre and the‘living newspaper' by Agnieszka Gratza

Documenta

Get Together

Curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, dOCUMENTA (13)is a vast, challenging exhibition, incorporating more than 300 participants and encompassing sites in Alexandria /Cairo, Banff and Kabul, as well as Kassel. Alex Farquharson and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie grapple with its complexities. by Alex Farquharson and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Education

New Schools

A survey of recently founded artist-run art academies and education programmes, with contributions from: The Silent University, The School of Global Art, The External Program, MASS Alexandria, SOMA and Islington Mill Art Academy by Sam Thorne

Focus

Focus: Matheus Rocha Pitta

How a monumental ruin is turned into gravel, in the Brazilian artist’s show ‘Dois Reais’ (Two Reals, 2012) by Jörg Heiser

Interview

Questions & Answers

For 40 years, Suzanne Lacy has worked collaboratively to create installations, videos and large-scale performances in response to social themes and urban issues by Jennifer Higgie

Questionnaire

Renata Lucas

What is art for? Perhaps it’s one of the few things left that allows us to declare that we don’t fit the given standards. by Renata Lucas

Politics

What the World Needs Now ...

22 artists respond to four questions on political art

Art

Interview

Damien Hirst

Stuart Morgan interviews Damien Hirst

Art

Roundtable

A New Internationalism

At the recent London art fair, Andrew Renton, Karsten Schubert and Michael Craig-Martin discussed the possibilities of new british art being taken up internationally.

Art

Interview

Christian Boltanski

Christian Boltanski interviewed by Rose Jennings

Interview

Perfect Moments

Graham Gussin interviewed by Matthew Slotover

City Report

Delhi

Since the late 1990s, the art scene in the Indian capital and its environs has swelled from a handful of galleries to a thriving constellation of non-profits, residency programmes and artist-run spaces. by Devika Singh and The Raqs Media Collective

Interview

Andy Holden

On a music festival in Wysing, ‘Thingly Time’, the zigzag wave form of Charlie Brown’s jumper and Bedfordshire by Chris Fite-Wassilak

Questionnaire

Amalia Pica

Q: What is art for? A: It’s a way of resisting the lack of meaning in things, a desperate attempt to make sense of how random and absurd the world is — and it’s also a way of celebrating exactly that. by Amalia Pica

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New Museum , New York, USA

By Jennifer Kabat

Yoko OnoSubscriber only

Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

By Klaus Walter

The Bride & the Bachelors and Robert RauschenbergRegistered only

Barbican Art Gallery / Gagosian gallery, London, UK

By Jeremy Millar

Nayland BlakeSubscriber only

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA

By David Everitt Howe

Maya BlochRegistered only

Thierry Goldberg, New York, USA

By Ara H. Merjian

The Handler of GravitySubscriber only

Essex Street, New York, USA

By Wendy Vogel

Ok Huyn AhnRegistered only

Showroom 170, New York, USA

By Pablo Larios

Tacita DeanSubscriber only

Marian Goodman, New York, USA

By William Corwin

Josiah McElhenyRegistered only

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, USA

By Alpesh Patel

Llyn FoulkesRegistered only

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

By Jonathan Griffin

Hilma af KlintRegistered only

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

By Jennifer Higgie

Jan GrooverSubscriber only

Galerie Paul Frèches, Paris, France

By Robert Barry

Jos De Gruyter & Harald ThysSubscriber only

M_HKA, Antwerp, Belgium

By Kasia Redzisz

Notes on Neo-CampSubscriber only

Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

By Laura McLean-Ferris

Simon DennySubscriber only

Kunstverein Munich,

By Kevin McGarry

Julia HallerRegistered only

Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany

By Mark Prince

Barbara HammerRegistered only

KOW, Berlin, Germany

By Matthew Burbidge

John HendersonRegistered only

Peep-Hole, Milan, Italy

By Barbara Casavecchia

Paola ReveniotiSubscriber only

The Breeder, Athens, Greece

By Marina Fokidis

Simeón Saiz RuizRegistered only

Galería Fúcares, Madrid, Spain

By George Stolz

The Themersons and the Avant-GardeSubscriber only

Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland

By Krzysztof Kosciuczuk

Jeff KeenRegistered only

Kate MacGarry, London, UK

By Martin Herbert

Michael KrebberRegistered only

Maureen Paley, London, UK

By Laura McLean-Ferris

Kutlug AtamanSubscriber only

Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK

By Nick Aikens

Jeremiah DaySubscriber only

Arcade, London, UK

By Chris Fite-Wassilak

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Artur Żmijewski

Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

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Mandla Reuter

Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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Ragnar Kjartansson

Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland

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Martin Honert

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The Thirties: The Arts in Italy Beyond Fascism

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Dmitri Prigov

State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

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Richard Saltoun & Karsten Schubert, London, UK

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The Vivisector

Sprüth Magers, London, UK

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Edith Dekyndt

Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK

By Amy Sherlock

Peter Clarke

Iniva, London, UK

By Lara Pawson

Adelita Husni-Bey

Gasworks, London, UK

By Paolo Magagnoli

1913: The Shape of Time

The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK

By William Corwin

Delia Derbyshire Day 2013

Band on the Wall , Manchester, UK

By David Morris

Alice Maher

Irish Museum of Modern Art , Dublin, Ireland

By Brian Curtin

Ian Wallace

Vancouver Art Gallery , Vancouver, Canada

By Robert Linsley

Laura Owens

356 South Mission Road, Los Angeles, USA

By Jonathan Griffin

Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

By Brian Sholis

On Creating Reality, by Andy Kaufman

Maccarone, New York, USA

By Summer Guthery

Owen Kydd

Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, USA

By Elwyn Palmerton

Erik Wysocan

Laurel Gitlen, New York, USA

By Nathaniel Cunningham

Barbara Kasten

Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, USA

By Joseph Akel

Malcolm Morley

Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, USA

By Michael Pepi

In the Holocene

MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts, USA

By Scott Roben

Postscript: Writing after Conceptual Art

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver , Denver, USA

By Lauren A. Wright

Geoff Lowe 1972-92 & A Constructed World Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne

Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

By Michael Ascroft

on | off

Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

By Beatrice Leanza

Kochi-Muziris Biennale

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Roy Lichtenstein

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, USA

By Ara H. Merjian

Tokyo 1955–1970

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

By Katie Kitamura

Bernadette Corporation

Artists Space, New York, USA

By Jennifer Kabat

Materializing ‘Six Years’

Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

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Nicolas Ceccaldi

Real Fine Arts, New York, USA

By Kari Rittenbach

Hank Willis Thomas

Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA

By A.M. Weaver

Six Lines of Flight

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA

By Jeanne Gerrity

Lutz Bacher

Ratio 3, San Francisco, USA

By Jonathan Griffin

Brian Groombridge

YYZ & Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada

By Charles Reeve

Andrew Grassie

Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada

By Michael Harris

Kafou: Haiti,  Art & Vodou

Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK

By Colin Perry

Helen Marten

Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK

By Kathy Noble

John Divola

Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, UK

By Laura McLean-Ferris

Film in Space

Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

By Agnieszka Gratza

Artist Placement Group

Raven Row, London, UK

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William Klein + Daido Moriyama

Tate Modern, London, UK

By Bettina Pousttchi

Revolver

Matt’s Gallery, London, UK

By Colin Perry

Bruno Munari

Estorick Collection, London, UK

By Nicole Yip

Gabriele Beveridge

Rod Barton, London, UK

By Josephine New

Jim Shaw

BALTIC, Gateshead, UK

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Mike Kelley

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

By Kathy Noble

How Much Fascism?

BAK, Ultrecht, Netherlands

By Nick Aikens

Neptune Society

Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin, Germany

By Kirsty Bell

Markéta Othová

Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany

By Noemi Smolik

Marcel Odenbach

Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany

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Christian Mayer

Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, Austria

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Mike Parr

Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

By Simon Rees

Filipa César

Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

By Raphaël Brunel

A Grammar of the Accidental

Fri Art – Centre d’art de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

By Aoife Rosenmeyer

Karl Larsson

Signal | Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden

By Matthew Rana

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