Issue 110 October 2007
Yvonne Rainer / Xavier Le Roy
Tanz im August, Various venues, Berlin
The Thing
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA
The Joke’s on You
Art and the importance of the slapstick method
Positions Vacant
Has technocracy replaced vision in top museum jobs?
Rope Tricks
Pro wrestling grapples with reality
Time Frame
Politics and entropy in an exhibition about duration
Grand Designs
Do the record prices being fetched at auction for design mean it should now be considered art?
Eastern Promise
An archive of BBC films and a new documentary about Gilbert & George record the changing social fabric of London's East End
Raising Standards
Whether designing schools or customized housing, architects drMM find freedom in the limits of materials and processes
Rosemarie Trockel
In ‘Life in Film’, an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice.
With/Without: Spatial Products, Practices and Politics in the Middle East
Shumon Basar, Antonia Carver and Markus Miessen (eds.), (Bidoun and Moutamarat, Dubai, 2007)
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July (Canongate, Edinburgh, 2007)
Édouard Glissant and Linton Kwesi Johnson
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London, UK
Comicopera
Robert Wyatt (Domino, 2007)
Craft of the Lost Art
Shape of Broad Minds (Lex Records, 2007)
In Advance of the Broken Arm
Marnie Stern (Kill Rock Stars, 2007)
Another Fine Mess
Nine theses on slapstick
O Lucky Man!
With his acts of everyday absurdism, Polish artist Cezary Bodzianowski holds up a mirror to an institutionalized world
The Self-Preservation Society
Nedko Solakov's darkly humorous work expresses a scepticism of authority and power
Wilfredo Prieto
From issue 110 of frieze, first published in September 2007: the Barcelona-based Cuban artist is the winner of the Cartier Award 2008 by Max Andrews
Ina Weber
Designs for life: new takes on public furniture
Tris Vonna-Michell
Spinning tall tales: autobiography and politics in concocted histories
Cosmic Rays
Sigmar Polke’s body of work since the mid-1960s has been consistently iconoclastic, enigmatic and technically innovative
Risk Assessment
Elegant and minimal in form yet charged with menace, Micol Assaël’s installations articulate the fear of violence and the terrible potency of technology
Matthew Monahan
Sculpture and anthropology from the school of hard knocks
Things Fall Apart
Modernity, violence, narrative, repetition: slapstick shares as much with contemporary art as it does comedy
Pádraig Timoney
Pádraig Timoney's visual language privileges diversity over uniformity
True Romance
Keren Cytter's videos celebrate the role of cinematic cliche in our daily lives
Jeffrey Valance
What should change?
Moving Targets
Rachel Harrison's installations and sculptures explore hierarchies of display and cultural value
Eden’s Edge
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
By Jeffrey Ryan
Imagine Action
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
By Dan Fox
Andreas Slominski
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
By Kirsty Bell
Good Morning, Midnight
Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, USA
By Katie Sonnenborn
Erik van Lieshout
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
By Burkhard Meltzer
Damian Ortega
White Cube, London, UK
By Jonathan Griffin
Nahum Tevet
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
By Ronald Jones
Organizing Chaos
PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
By Joanna Kleinberg
Fergal Stapleton
Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK
By Andrew Bonacina
Lothar Hempel
Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
By Bart van der Heide
Esculture Social
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
By Jason Foumberg
Amar Kanwar
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
By David Shariatmadari
Shooting Back
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
By Nicole Scheyerer
New Economy
Artists Space, New York, USA
By Morgan Falconer
NONO
Long March Space, Beijing, China
By Brian Curtin
David Maljkovic
CAPC Museé d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
By Luca Cerizza
Eva Rothschild
303 Gallery, New York, USA
By Kristin M. Jones
Donald Moffett
Stephen Friedman, London, UK
By Dan Fox
Salla Tykkä
Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
By Ronald Jones
Gego
The Drawing Center, New York, USA
By Jenni Sorkin
Iain Hetherington & Lynn Hynd
Studio 40, Glasgow, UK
By Mick Peter
Kenneth Martin & Mary Martin
Camden Arts Centre, London/ Manchester, UK
By Melissa Gronlund
Scott McFarland
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
By Chris Balaschak
Achim Kubinski
Simultanhalle, Cologne, Germany
By Catrin Lorch
Panic Attack!
Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
By Mia Jankowicz
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