Issue 100 June-August 2006
Dear Reader…
A great magazine is one which invents its own readership
Prose and Cons
The state of film criticism today
Prose and Cons
The state of classical music criticism today
Prose and Cons
The state of popular music criticism today
A Desk Job
Criticism is the chance to start a conversation about things that matter
Prose and Cons
The state of literary criticism today
Faking It
How important is the truth when it comes to literary autobiography?
Write On!
For the 100th issue of frieze we celebrate the pleasure and pain of criticism by Dan Fox, Jörg Heiser, Jennifer Higgie and James Trainor
Peter Schjeldahl
Peter Schjeldahl has been writing art criticism in New York for 41 years, the last eight at The New Yorker.
Space Explorer
On the occasion of his first UK solo show – 'Celebration Park' – at Tate Modern this summer, frieze spoke to Pierre Huyghe about journeys, exhibition-making, fiction and the future
Fernando Bryce
People, posters and propaganda; history, copies and drawing
On the Road
An interview with Ian White about 30 years of work that explores ideas of time, text and travel; place, politics and friendship
Writing Survey
'What writing has most influenced the way you think about art?' Writers, artists and curators reveal the often surprising literary influences – from Theodor W. Adorno to Lester Bangs, Gertrude Stein and P.G. Wodehouse – that have shaped their thinking.
Writing Survey (Part 2)
'What writing has most influenced the way you think about art?' Writers, artists and curators reveal the often surprising literary influences – from Theodor W. Adorno to Lester Bangs, Gertrude Stein and P.G. Wodehouse – that have shaped their thinking.
Manon de Boer
Filming memory and memories of films; men, women, love and psychoanalysis
Writing Survey (Part 3)
'What writing has most influenced the way you think about art?' Writers, artists and curators reveal the often surprising literary influences – from Theodor W. Adorno to Lester Bangs, Gertrude Stein and P.G. Wodehouse – that have shaped their thinking.
Collected Writings
Since its humble beginnings almost 200 years ago, the art magazine has reflected, in wildly divergent forms, social, technological and cultural developments
Writing Survey (Part 4)
'What writing has most influenced the way you think about art?' Writers, artists and curators reveal the often surprising literary influences – from Theodor W. Adorno to Lester Bangs, Gertrude Stein and P.G. Wodehouse – that have shaped their thinking.
Life Class
An interview with Yvonne Rainer, one of the most influential artists of the past 40 years.
Jesper Just
Love, desire and impersonation; opera, film and masculinity
Periodical Tables (Part 1)
In 1976 the British art journal Studio International conducted a survey of contemporary art magazines to see what could be revealed about their inner workings and motivations. How do art magazines perceive themselves today? Are the questions that were posed 30 years ago still relevant in 2006? To find out, frieze asked 31 publications to respond to the Studio International questionnaire. Introduction by Richard Cork, the editor behind the original survey
Goshka Macuga
Books, art history and self-portraits; heaven, hell and purgatory
Periodical Tables (Part 2)
In 1976 the British art journal Studio International conducted a survey of contemporary art magazines to see what could be revealed about their inner workings and motivations. How do art magazines perceive themselves today? Are the questions that were posed 30 years ago still relevant in 2006? To find out, frieze asked 31 publications to respond to the Studio International questionnaire.
Periodical Tables (Part 3)
In 1976 the British art journal Studio International conducted a survey of contemporary art magazines to see what could be revealed about their inner workings and motivations. How do art magazines perceive themselves today? Are the questions that were posed 30 years ago still relevant in 2006? To find out, frieze asked 31 publications to respond to the Studio International questionnaire.
Binary Fluffing
What criteria do we use to judge art? During the opening of the 4th Berlin Biennial in March, Thomas Demand, Mark Godfrey, Jörg Heiser, Jennifer Higgie, Adrian Searle, Polly Staple and Tirdad Zolghadr gathered on a Saturday afternoon in frieze’s Berlin office to informally discuss, over cheese and strawberries, this very question
Shock of the New
Tom Wolfe is one of most iconic and controversial writers of the past 40 years. Michael Bracewell met him at the George V Hotel in Paris to discuss writing, art and intellectual fashion
2006 Whitney Biennial
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
By Peter Eleey
Mark Manders
BALTIC, Gateshead, UK
By Melissa Gronlund
Clemens von Wedemeyer
Kölnischer Kunstverein,
By Catrin Lorch
Jim Shaw
Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
By Charles Danby
Ward Shelley
Pierogi, New York, USA
By Sally O’Reilly
Survivor
Bortolami Dayan,
By Katie Sonnenborn
Studio City
Pescali & Sprovieri, London, UK
By Sally O’Reilly
Daniel Johnston
Clementine Gallery, New York, USA
By Steven Stern
Dan Fischer
Derek Eller Gallery, New York, USA
By Katie Sonnenborn
Draft Deceit
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
By Power Ekroth
Esra Ersen
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
By Amanda Coulson
Snap Judgements
International Center of Photography, New York, USA
By Kristin M. Jones
Impakt Festival
Various venues, Utrecht, The Netherlands,
By Douglas Heingartner
Mercury in Retrograde
De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
By Douglas Heingartner
David Wojnarowicz
Cabinet / Between Bridges, London, UK
By Catherine Wood
Ben Peterson
Ratio3, San Francisco, USA
By Julian Myers
Pierre Huyghe
ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
By Vivian Rehberg
ARS06
Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
By Christy Lange
Jonathan Monk
Kunstverein Hanover, Hanover, Germany
By Dominic Eichler
Andrew Mania and Carl van Vechten
Vilma Gold, London, UK
By Kim Dhillon
General Idea
Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
By Tom Morton
Huang Yong Ping
Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
By Francine Koslow Miller
MOT Annual 2006
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
By Kit Wise
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