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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

Open Eyes

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

Satire

Write of SpringRegistered only

Life is a quotation. Sort of. by Jennifer Higgie

In These Intemperate Times

There, Not ThereSubscriber only

How our attitudes betray us by Lynne Tillman

Weekend Special

Made in PyongyangRegistered only

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 YourselfSubscriber only

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

Icons

Every Day is GoodRegistered only

One hundred years of John Cage by Rob Young

Ideal Syllabus

Ideal SyllabusRegistered only

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

BooksRegistered only

Non-linear reading by Jenna Sutela

Music

MusicSubscriber only

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

Books

Film

Informant

Post Script

The hybrid genre of the film novelization by George Pendle

Books

Publishing

Paper Chase

The fall and rise of independent bookshops and publishing by Eugenia Bell

Life in Film

Lis Rhodes: Life in Film

In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice by Lis Rhodes

Art

Economics

Abstract Art

How are artists visualizing the financial crisis? by David Adler

Music

Music

Classical music outside the ‘imaginary museum’ of the concert hall by Paul Teasdale

Books

Books

A new translation of Julia Kristeva’s book on the art of beheading by Erik Morse

Weekend Special

The Beautyful Ones

The odd couple: agitprop and the griot tradition by Sean O’Toole

Satire

My Intern

A short story by Bedwyr Williams

Pretty, Pretty Good

The Parent Trap

What are the economics involved when artists have children? by Jennifer Allen

Museums

Living History

The surge in popularity of The Metropolitan Museum by Jason Farago

Music

Music

What’s behind the reissue boom in ‘outsider electronics’? by Simon Reynolds

Ideal Syllabus

Ideal Syllabus: Banu Cennetoğlu

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

In These Intemperate Times

Try Again

The ups and downs of failure as a creative tool by Lynne Tillman

Books

Books

The fourth novel from New York-based writer Ben Marcus is a powerful allegory about language by Brian Dillon

Art History

Tristes Artistes

Held across eight Italian galleries and museums, ‘Arte Povera 2011’ fails the original spirit of the art movement created by Germano Celant by Francesco Bonami

Books

Looking Back

Books

Experimental magazines, absurdist writing and new fiction, the publishing highlights of 2011 by David Senior and Emily Stokes

Looking Back

Music

Music

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

Design

Looking Back

Design

A survey of modern living in California, biennials in Asia and a new generation of design studios by Eugenia Bell and Beatrice Galilee

Film

Looking Back

Film

The best movies and artists’ films of 2011 by Thomas Beard and Emilie Bickerton

Art Writing

Pretty, Pretty Good

Artist’s Block

What can artists learn from writers? by Jennifer Allen

Informant

The Power of One

The strange allure of amulets by George Pendle

Other cities, other seas

Remains of the Day

What a show in New York says about artistic freedom in Lebanon by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Gallerists

Interview

Satire

Get ’em Whilst They’re Hot! They’re Lovely!

As the savage frosts of recession threaten the gilded lilies of art, frieze speaks to a new wave of young, dynamic gallerists about their hopes and dreams ...

Architecture

Looking Back

Architecture

From housing design in Japan to urban interventions in Caracas, architecture in 2011 was characterized by a rethinking of public and private space by Niklas Maak and Joseph Grima

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Acoustic Mirrors

The UK's forgotten acoustic defence system by George Pendle

Looking Forward

State of the Art

State of the Art

How art can provide new tools for living in a precarious age by Jochen Volz

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: At home with Wittgenstein

The great philosopher provides clarity and precision to interior decoration by Joe Laniado

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Scarecrows

Scarecrow or scarepeople?

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Belle de Jour

The mysteries of buzzing boxes by Edward Allington

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Virgin Suicides

Contemplating the Chinese whispers history of the iconic virgin suicide

Photography

State of the Art

Between Frames

Photography and the restless still life by Christy Lange

Books

Photography

Satire

Snappy Snaps

An excerpt from the introduction to the forthcoming treatise on photography by curator, philosopher, paparazzo, hedge-fund manager, mercenary and art critic Jean-Philippe Obu-Stevenson: Snappy Snaps: Irrigating the Re-Un-De-Framed Conceptual Contextual Medium Mediation of the Imaged Photographic Picture (Editions Obu-Stevenson, Schipol Airport, 2012)

Books

In These Intemperate Times

Photography

Point of View

A new book on the writing of Diane Arbus prompts a deeper understanding of her photographs by Lynne Tillman

Pretty, Pretty Good

Who, Me?

Narcissism is back in fashion by Jennifer Allen

Photography

Weekend Special

Studio International

Does digital media spell the end for portrait photographers in Africa? by Sean O’Toole

Art

Debate

Down with the Kids!

The contradictions of a youth-obsessed art world by Graham T. Beck

Film and Television

Philosophy

Tête-à-Tête

Erik Morse on the translation into English of a 52-part French TV programme featuring philosopher Gilles Deleuze by Erik Morse

Music

Music

From the Ottoman diaspora to the musical influence of the Eastern Mediterranean, the early days of the record industry in New York by Sam Thorne

Books

Photography

Books

From the failures of Roland Barthes to the joys of sustained looking, four new publications on photography by Brian Dillon

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Dante’s Inferno

A perfect rendition of nothing by Zadie Smith

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Mystery Spot

Defying gravity – a classic slapstick pratfall by Dan Fox

Life in Pictures

Life in Pictures:  Chris Killip

The first of an occasional series in which frieze invites an artist, curator or writer to discuss the images that have influenced them

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: The Milton Keynes Team, 1973

C&A, brutalism and bus strikes - the radical architects of Milton Keynes by Michael Bracewell

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: The Kilogram

Same but different: the many ur-kilos by Charles Ray

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Sounds of Earth

Our longing to make contact with other beings in the cosmos - a mixtape by Jennifer Higgie

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Ray Eames

An acknowledgement of irrationality in the face of the most rational by Lorraine Wild

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Norteño Shirts

Designed in Mexico, manufactured in China and sold exclusively at swapmeets throughout Los Angeles by Cameron Jamie

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Mr Ben

Mr Dependable by James Roberts

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Beasts

Dionysus and big cats by Jennifer Higgie

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Fiori di Como

Inside Bellagio, Las Vegas by Collier Schorr

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Silent Running

Earth’s flora floats off, into the silence of deep space.

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Art and Advertising

Art and Advertising - grounds for divorce?

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Disturbed Black Hole

The gravitational wave emitted by a disturbed black hole by Peter Saville

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Gilbert’s Fireplace

A monument to the darkness of late-Victorian Britain by James Roberts

Picture Piece: St Pancras and King’s Cross

Two railway stations; two clocks by Richard Wentworth

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: AK-47

The little black dress of the Military-Industrial complex by Joe Scanlan

State of the Art

Art Rules

The things they don't teach you in art school by Douglas Fogle

Other cities, other seas

On Bandwagons

The problems of funding art during times of revolution by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Pretty, Pretty Good

State of Mind

Should artists join arguments about national belonging? by Jennifer Allen

Informant

Monsters Inc.

The Museum of Cryptozoology and its celebration of the unknown and the elusive by George Pendle

Artist Project

SUR L’ART (On Art)

Cathleen Chaffe on frieze's exclusive publication of an artist project by Marcel Broodthaers

Protest

Beyond the Barricades

The changing shape of demonstrations by Michael Sayeau

Life in Film

Life in Film: Deimantas Narkevičius

In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influences their practice Originally trained as a sculptor, Deimantas Narkevicˇius began working with film in the early 1990s. His films examine the relationship of personal memories to political histories, particularly those of his native Lithuania. Employing documentary footage, voice-overs, interviews, re-enactments and found photographs, Narkevicˇius’s films and videos submit historical events to the narrative structures of storytelling and cinema. His work was on view at the New Museum in New York in the recent exhibition ‘Ostalgia’, and his solo exhibition at gb agency in Paris, ‘Restricted Sensation’, runs until 22 October.

Books

Books

Wayne Koestenbaum's new book Humiliation confirms that language hurts by Quinn Latimer

Music

Music

The Politics of big bands by Frances Morgan

Art Criticism

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

It’s hard to tell the difference these days by Francesco Bonami

State of the Art

Happy Returns

It’s 20 years since the first issue of frieze. How has the art world changed in that time? by Jörg Heiser and Jennifer Higgie

Music

Music

The collected music criticism of the pioneering feminist writer Ellen Willis by Anwyn Crawford

In These Intemperate Times

Blame it on Andy

The problems of acting natural by Lynne Tillman

Weekend Special

Wall Text

The brick as metaphor in South African art and writing by Sean O’Toole

Looking Back

The View from Here

The Cure, Damien Hirst and beyond: the evolution of the British cultural landscape by Michael Bracewell

Reflections

Truth or Dare

The dangers of reducing everything to a text by Vivian Sky Rehberg

Books

Books

Two new publications look at how reading is changing by Leo Robson

Interview

Music

Music

To coincide with the publication of his new book Retromania, Simon Reynolds talks about pop’s obsession with its immediate past by Dan Fox

Film

Dream Factory

Sigmund Freud goes to the movies by John Menick

Ideal Syllabus

Ideal Syllabus: Gabriel Lester

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

Pretty, Pretty Good

Mixed Media

On his 100th birthday, a reappraisal of Marshall McLuhan’s prophecies by Jennifer Allen

Icons

Changing Faces

The many iconic images of the late Elizabeth Taylor by Richard Flood

Politics

From a Distance

How can cultural institutions best respond to political crises? by Tirdad Zolghadr

State of the Art

Free Speech

Censorship and the art world by Jennifer Higgie

Architecture

Informant

Shadow Lands

Great buildings that were never built by George Pendle

Books

Books

Unpacking David Foster Wallace’s library and the publication of his unfinished final novel by Hermione Hoby

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

Monograph

Coming to Life

Spirits, objecthood and the ‘Black Forest voodoo’ of Geoffrey Farmer’s mirages and micro-events by Jan Verwoert

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt was my life-model by Lynda Morris

Interview

The Middle of the Day

On the occasion of a year- long exhibition at Tate Britain, Frank Bowling talks about the ‘poured paintings’ he began making in the early 1970s, getting advice from Clement Greenberg and the importance of improvisation by Courtney J. Martin

Influences

Infuences: Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige

For the first time in the new series, frieze invites artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige to write about the images that have informed their practice by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige

Interview

Social Spaces

On the occasion of his exhibition at Protocinema in Istanbul, Dan Graham discusses sci-fi, dance, model-making and the ‘just-past’ with Turkish artist Can Altay by Dan Graham and Can Altay

Focus

Focus: Alicja KwadeSubscriber only

The language of cinema and the psychology of sculpture by Kito Nedo

Case Study

Case Study: Trisha BagaRegistered only

The New York-based artist’s latest video installation, Plymouth Rock. by Piper Marshall

Art

Body Politics

Comprising installations, actions, performances, conferences and moving-image projections, the work of Fabio Mauri was a life-long enquiry into the relationship between art, ideology and totalitarianism. by Barbara Casavecchia

Monograph

Woman of Letters

Moyra Davey’s films, photographs and writing are a sustained meditation on her family, literary influences, travels and environment by Quinn Latimer

Monograph

Future Memories

Dominik Lang’s work is deeply influenced by both the legacy of Czech conceptual art and his intimate relationship to his family home in Prague by Noemi Smolik

Focus

Studio Visit

Studio Visit: Eddie Peake

The London-based artist’s recent performance work by Eleanor Nairne

Focus

Focus: Pilvi Takala

The Finnish artist’s subtly transgressive video performances by Christy Lange

Survey

Sculptors Discuss Sculpture

Leonor Antunes, Alice Channer, Thea Djordjadze, Liz Glynn, Charles Long, Christina Mackie, Karin Ruggaber, Kilian Rüthemann, Bojan Šarčević and Nicole Wermers are asked about the ways in which they feel meaning is controlled and conveyed in their work

Monograph

Painting

A Life in a Day

The fictitious portraits of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye by Jennifer Higgie

Protest

Face/Off

Anonymity and iconography in contemporary protest culture by Tom Holert

Art

Monograph

No Ordinary Cats

Lucy McKenzie’s work as part of the collaborative fashion studio, Atelier, embodies the artist’s enquiries into a romanticized past shot through with mythical meaning by Michael Bracewell

Photography

Picture This

From Roni Horn and Thomas Struth to the unbearable gaze of Marina Abramović, photographer Christina Zück examines the ‘enraptured faces’ of portrait photography today by Christina Zück

Monograph

Time after Time

Since 1995, Li Yongbin has been creating videos of faces in the Beijing apartment he has lived in for over 30 years by Carol Yinghua Lu

Art History

From This to That

A contemporary of Rodin and a key influence on Brancusi, Medardo Rosso maintained a serial practice of photographing his own work. Alessio delli Castelli considers the Italian sculptor’s photographic legacy by Alessio delli Castelli

Focus

Focus: Francesc Ruiz

Comic books and identity; innuendo and homoerotic iconography by Max Andrews

Focus

Focus: Danai Anesiadou

The authentically real and the profanely cheap; ‘sperm, gold, money, black holes ... ’ by Quinn Latimer

Focus

Focus: Alex Israel

Celebrity culture, film studio design and the Hollywood dream by Jonathan Griffin

Focus

Focus: Nicholas Byrne

Bodily incursions, surgical violence and an ‘uncommon sense of objecthood’ by Tom Morton

Obituaries

Mike Kelley (1954–2012): Ten Tributes

Friends and collaborators remember his life and work

Architecture

Past Futures

Five decades after the pioneering Japanese architecture group Metabolism was founded, Amelia Groom considers their legacy on the occasion of a major touring survey by Amelia Groom

Monograph

Music

TV

American Opera

First broadcast in 1983, and recently restaged in New York, Robert Ashley’s TV opera Perfect Lives is a talkative exploration of sociability and storytelling by Dan Fox

Painting

Dear Painter …

Tomma Abts, Tauba Auerbach, Matt Connors, Charline von Heyl and Bernd Ribbeck talk about the role of abstraction in painting today by Christopher Bedford

Monograph

Life Study

The story of Los Angeles-based artist Kaari Upson’s long-term ‘Larry Project’ by Jonathan Griffin

Focus

Focus: Corin Sworn

Early 20th-century literary characterization; imagination, action and agency by Colin Perry

Art Criticism

Stock Piles

Informed by the online debris of stock photography, many artists – including Aleksandra Domanović, Oliver Laric, Helen Marten, James Richards, Hannah Sawtell and the Yemenwed collective – are exploring the ‘off-world’ of digital imagery with a new fluency by Isobel Harbison

Architecture

Past Futures

Five decades after the pioneering Japanese architecture group Metabolism was founded, Amelia Groom considers its legacy on the occasion of a major survey while Nick Currie talks to Rem Koolhaas, author of Project Japan: Metabolism Talks, about the organic cities and flexible buildings that they envisioned by Amelia Groom and Nick Currie

Focus

Focus: Jonathas de Andrade

Tropical Modernism and the ‘potential of nostalgia’; photographs, prints and new layers of memory by Silas Martí

Focus

Focus: Wu Tsang

Community organizing and AIDS activism; ‘Full Body Quotation’ and party hosting by Sam Thorne

Monograph

One Instant

A response by Marie Darrieussecq to the filmic meditations of João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva which refer to, in no particular order: Plato, Isaac Newton and Alfred Jarry, turtles and chimpanzees, Zen masters, voodoo witches, astrologers and astrophysicists by Marie Darrieussecq

Focus

Focus: Neïl Beloufa

Documentary films and sci-fi encounters; assumption, truth and magic by Paul Teasdale

Photography

Politics

The Way They Looked at Each Other

What two photographs taken by a Spanish judge in Baghdad reveal about the impossibility of untangling a moment in the past by Mario Garcia Torres

Art

Events

Politics

Protest

Radical Bleak

Art’s conflicted relationship with the Arab Spring by Negar Azimi

Art

Interview

Museums

Chris Dercon: Interview

Jennifer Higgie and Sam Thorne talk to the new director of Tate Modern about the museum’s plans for the future

Politics

Protest

And Then?

A year of unrest in the UK by Dan Hancox

Interview

Politics

Social Engagement

Useful Art

Kathy Noble talks to Tania Bruguera about the artist’s long-term project in New York, Immigrant Movement International, and what it means not to ‘represent politics but to create political situations’ by Kathy Noble

TV

La Comédie Humaine

A golden age of television by Aaron Schuster

Art

Looking Back

Politics

The Long Nineties

Revisiting art’s social turn and the 1990s – the decade that has yet to end by Lars Bang Larsen

Art

City Report

Politics

Words & Deeds

The factors behind the mayor of Berlin’s controversial decision to fund the exhibition ‘Made in Berlin' by Jörg Heiser

Politics

Publishing

Top Secrets

Advocate or Informer? Julian Assange and WikiLeaks by Jan Verwoert

Politics

Protest

Going Dutch

Reasons and responses: the cuts to arts funding in the Netherlands by Moosje Goosen

Events

Looking Forward

Ten Years

Remembering 9/11: how exhibitions in New York and Berlin commemorated the tenth anniversary of the attacks by Christy Lange

Art

City Report

Pacific Standard Time

Stretching across 70 museums and galleries, ‘Pacific Standard Time’ is an unprecedented collaboration that traces different histories of Southern Californian art between 1945 and 1980 by Sam Thorne and Stacey Allan

Questionnaire

Questionnaire: Alfredo Jaar

What is art for? Art is like the air we breathe. Nietzsche said that life without music would be a mistake. A life without art would be unlivable. Art is life. by Alfredo Jaar

Interview

Hans Peter Feldmann

Hans Peter Feldmann and Kaspar König in conversation by Kaspar König

Photography

Depth of Focus

In recent years, a number of US-based artists have been taking new approaches to photography, emphasizing process, digital manipulation and the physical support by Chris Wiley

Art

Interview

On Display

Elad Lassry makes sculptures that, in his words, ‘happen to be photographs’. He talks about the relationship between objects, images and looking, the importance of the frame and the potential of ‘nervous pictures’ by Mark Godfrey

Photography

Out in the World

The intertwining of art and commercial photography is nowhere more evident than in the genre of still life by David Campany

Focus

Focus: Michael Dean

Symmetry, distance and intimacy; poetry, concrete and grass by Paul Teasdale

Focus

Focus: Pratchaya Phinthong

Luxury consumption and low-cost production; labour, exchange, weight and money by Barbara Casavecchia

Focus

Focus: Bouchra Khalili

The land and the sea; the mapping of clandestine journeys; the intertwining of personal stories and politics by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Focus

Focus: Helen Marten

A digital approach to sculpture and installation; physical comedy and the very recent past by Jörg Heiser

Interview

Photography

Set Pieces

Barbara Kasten has been creating inventive and influential images for more than 40 years. Artist Anthony Pearson talked to her about theatricality, her approach to photography and what it means to ‘think like a painter’ by Anthony Pearson

Monograph

Photography

All Other Images

When he died in 1992, Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri left behind a body of work characterized by its intimacy, humour and focus on both the world he lived in and the role of images within it by Christy Lange

Film

Film and Television

Interview

More than a Feeling

In recent years, artists in the UK have increasingly turned to narrative cinema and mainstream TV, a shift that has coincided with a renewed interest in the video and new-media practices of the 1970s and ’80s. How does this relate to issues of funding, ideology, duration and display? A round-table discussion with artists Ed Atkins, Melanie Gilligan, Anja Kirschner and Ben Rivers by Dan Kidner

Questionnaire

Questionnaire: Yayoi Kusama

What should stay the same? Peace and love among the people.

Art

Focus

Focus: Francesco Arena

Politics and anthropometry: measuring history through yourself by Vincenzo Latronico

Art

Monograph

Notes & Queries

The collaborations and performances of Dora García, who is currently representing Spain in the Venice Biennale, engage with radicalism, inadequacy and the excluded by Max Andrews

Art

Film

Focus

Focus: Laure Prouvost

Slippages and the peculiarities of language; its problems and potential by Nick Aikens

Interview

Photography

Talking Pictures

Yto Barrada juggles her work as an artist with running a cinémathèque in Tangier. She talked to Jennifer Higgie about her reasons for opening a cinema, the ‘strategies of resistance’ she encounters in Morocco today, and her interest in botany by Jennifer Higgie

Fiction

Interview

Writing

A Writer Prepares

Jesse Ball is an author, poet, artist and lucid dreaming instructor based in Chicago. Ross Simonini talked to him about his new novel, The Curfew, ‘writing as a performance’, and the importance of both clarity and deception in story-telling by Ross Simonini

Art History

Education

History Lessons

To coincide with its major relocation to a new site in King’s Cross, artist and teacher Malcolm Le Grice traces the history of Central Saint Martins, from the mid-19th-century to today. This is the first in an occasional series of essays on art schools around the world by Malcolm Le Grice

Focus

Focus: Mateo Tannatt

Public performance and invisibility; social alienation and the artist’s role by Jonathan Griffin

Art

Interview

Ryan Trecartin: in conversation

An interview by Katie Kitamura and Hari Kunzru

Art

Film

Monograph

We Have a Situation

Ryan Trecartin’s immersive video environments are amplified reflections of the joy, madness and ambiguity of our culture by Chris Wiley

Art

Monograph

Day by Day

The photography and videos of Olga Chernysheva capture concentrated moments in the midst of daily Russian life by Vivian Sky Rehberg

Art

Monograph

Fact & Fictions

Developing narratives from fragmented histories, the work of Michael Stevenson weighs up fate, irony and chance events by Adam Jasper

Interview

Music

Surround Sound

On the occasion of a major retrospective in London, Paul Schütze talked to pioneering composer Eliane Radigue about her 50-year career, which spans electronic music, Tibetan Buddhism, musique concrète and ‘anti-acoustics’ by Paul Schütze

Philosophy

Theoretically Speaking

Throughout the 1990s, the rise of neo-conceptual art coincided with an increasing engagement with theory as a generator of ideas. Did that interest wane, or did it take on new forms in the years that followed? A look back at the last two decades in philosophy by Simon Critchley and Nina Power and Timotheus Vermeulen

Looking Back

Music

Survey: Music

frieze invited 15 artists and writers to discuss some of the significant musicians and releases of the last 20 years

Fiction

Looking Forward

Somerset or, A Glance at the Deep Future of the Avant-Garde

A short story with images from Ben Rivers’ film Slow Action (2010) by Mark von Schlegell

Fiction

Looking Forward

Twenty Years Fore & Aft

We know about the last two decades, but what do the years between now and 2031 have in store? by Bruce Sterling

Film

Film and Television

Looking Back

TV

Survey: On Screen

What have you been watching? 26 artists and writers respond to the last two decades

Art

Art Criticism

Language

Keywords

First published in 1976, Raymond Williams’ Keywords is a ‘record of an inquiry into a vocabulary … concerned with the practices and institutions described as “culture” and “society”.’ by Dan Fox and Jennifer Higgie

Books

Looking Back

Survey: Books

We invited frieze contributors to discuss the writers and publications they consider to be the most significant of the last 20 years

Art

Looking Back

Looking Forward

20/20

We invited 20 artists who have been on the cover of frieze to nominate a contemporary artist whose work inspires them

Technology

Down the Line

The last 20 years have seen revolutions in technology that have transformed our lives. How have art and its institutions reacted? by Lauren Cornell and Kazys Varnelis

Questionnaire

Questionnaire: frieze

How old are you? Twenty.

Curating

Debate

Education

Look & Learn

The last two decades have seen a proliferation of curatorial studies programmes. How has this affected methodology and display, and what is the future of these courses?

Fiction

Declaration on the Notion of ‘The Future’

Admonitions and Exhortations for the Cultural Producers of the early-to-mid-21st Century by Tom McCarthy

Monograph

Marine Core

Exploring the historical and metaphorical parameters of ‘the marine’ in the installations, sculptures and wall pieces of Cosima von Bonin by John C. Welchman

Monograph

Body Image

The sculptures and installations of Anthea Hamilton stage the complexities of interpretation and desire by Martin Herbert

Survey

State of a Nation

On the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification, curators and critics respond to the country’s political crisis and its effect on cultural institutions with Gabriella Belli, Cecilia Canziani, Massimiliano Gioni, Francesco Manacorda and Alessandro Rabottini by Barbara Casavecchia

Focus

Focus: Dianna Molzan

Deconstructed canvases and layers of reference by Katie Kitamura

Focus

Focus: Christian Andersson

Museological display, truth, fiction and ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ by Ronald Jones

Focus

Focus: Amalia Pica

Facts and false memories; nostalgia and ciphers of experience by Sally O'Reilly

Art

Monograph

California Dreaming

The work of William Leavitt reflects upon Los Angeles’ faded visions of the future, bourgeois taste and the scientific sublime by Jonathan Griffin by Jonathan Griffin

Art

Interview

On Reflection

After the opening last year of the Lee Ufan Museum – a collaboration with the architect Tadao Ando on Naoshima Island, Japan – and ahead of his largest retrospective to date, at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Lee Ufan talks to Melissa Chiu about his five decades as an artist, writer and philosopher by Dr. Melissa Chiu

Questionnaire

Questionnaire: R.H. Quaytman

What’s your favourite journey? Leaving.

Film

Reel Life

Working between documentaries and blockbusters, Brazilian director José Padilha is reviving the legacy of neo-realism by Bert Rebhandl

Art Writing

Works on Paper

The lives and deaths of fictional artists by Sam Thorne

Focus

Rossella Biscotti

Reconstruction, propaganda and entertainment; politics, trials and fencing by Barbara Casavecchia

Focus

Matt Keegan

Historical, social and political questions: ‘how did we get here?’ by Naomi Fry

Correspondence

Speak Now

A long-overdue shift is happening in how contemporary African art – from Dakar and Lagos to Cape Town, Harare and Rabat – is disseminated and discussed by Nana Oforiatta-Ayim

Ming Wong

REDCAT, Los Angeles, USA

By Erik Morse

Claes Oldenburg

MUMOK, Vienna, Austria

By Kirsty Bell

Nina CanellSubscriber only

Cubitt, London, UK

By Martin Herbert

Wallace Berman & Robert HeineckenRegistered only

Armory Center for the Arts , Pasadena, USA

By Ian Chang

The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial

New Museum, New York, USA

By katie kitamura

Jordan WofsonRegistered only

Alex Zachary Peter Currie , New York, USA

By Dan Fox

Klara LidénSubscriber only

Reena Spaulings Fine Art , New York, USA

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Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India

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Heman Chong

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Flavio Favelli

Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy

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Olaf Nicolai

Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

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Rui Calçada Bastos

invaliden1, Berlin, Germany

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Laura Horelli

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Henning Bohl

Johann König, Berlin, Germany

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Anna Molska

Foksal Gallery Foundation , Warsaw, Poland

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Goshka Macuga

Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

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The Historical Box

Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland

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Danser sa vie

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Yuri Pattison

Son Gallery, London, UK

By Eleanor Nairne

Terry Smith

John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK

By Colin Perry

Merlin Carpenter

Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK

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André Ethier and Janet Beckhouse

Neon Parc, Melbourne, Australia

By Emily Cormack

Le Mois de la Photo

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By James D. Campbell

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