Events

Yvonne Rainer / Xavier Le Roy

Tanz im August, Various venues, Berlin by Dominic Eichler

Events

The Thing

Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA by Julian Myers

State of the Art

The Joke’s on You

Art and the importance of the slapstick method by Jörg Heiser

View from the Bridge

Positions Vacant

Has technocracy replaced vision in top museum jobs? by Robert Storr

Informant

Rope Tricks

Pro wrestling grapples with reality by George Pendle

5:00 AM

Time Frame

Politics and entropy in an exhibition about duration by Nancy Spector

Design

Grand Designs

Do the record prices being fetched at auction for design mean it should now be considered art? by Emily King

TV

Eastern Promise

An archive of BBC films and a new documentary about Gilbert & George record the changing social fabric of London's East End by Michael Bracewell

Architecture

Raising Standards

Whether designing schools or customized housing, architects drMM find freedom in the limits of materials and processes by Stephen Beasley

Life in Film

Life in Film: Rosemarie Trockel

In ‘Life in Film’, an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice.

Books

With/Without: Spatial Products, Practices and Politics in the Middle East

Shumon Basar, Antonia Carver and Markus Miessen (eds.), (Bidoun and Moutamarat, Dubai, 2007) by Max Andrews

Books

No One Belongs Here More Than You

Miranda July (Canongate, Edinburgh, 2007) by Christy Lange

Events

Édouard Glissant and Linton Kwesi Johnson

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London, UK by Jerome Boyd-Maunsell

Music

Comicopera

Robert Wyatt (Domino, 2007) by Dan Fox

Music

Craft of the Lost Art

Shape of Broad Minds (Lex Records, 2007) by Tony F. Wilson

Music

In Advance of the Broken Arm

Marnie Stern (Kill Rock Stars, 2007) by Sam Thorne

Survey

Another Fine Mess

Nine theses on slapstick by Brian Dillon

Monograph

O Lucky Man!

With his acts of everyday absurdism, Polish artist Cezary Bodzianowski holds up a mirror to an institutionalized world by Jan Verwoert

Monograph

The Self-Preservation Society

Nedko Solakov's darkly humorous work expresses a scepticism of authority and power by Christy Lange

Focus

Wilfredo Prieto

The Barcelona-based Cuban artist was the winner of the Cartier Award 2008 by Max Andrews by Max Andrews

Focus

Ina Weber

Designs for life: new takes on public furniture by Christy Lange

Focus

Tris Vonna-Michell

Spinning tall tales: autobiography and politics in concocted histories by Sam Thorne

Monograph

Cosmic Rays

Sigmar Polke’s body of work since the mid-1960s has been consistently iconoclastic, enigmatic and technically innovative by Jörg Heiser

Monograph

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 by Polly Staple

Focus

Matthew Monahan

Sculpture and anthropology from the school of hard knocks by Jonathan Griffin

Art History

Things Fall Apart

Modernity, violence, narrative, repetition: slapstick shares as much with contemporary art as it does comedy by Sally O’Reilly

Monograph

Pádraig Timoney

Pádraig Timoney's visual language privileges diversity over uniformity by Dominic Eichler

Monograph

True Romance

Keren Cytter's videos celebrate the role of cinematic cliche in our daily lives by Melissa Gronlund

Questionnaire

Jeffrey Vallance

Jeffrey Vallance is an artist, writer, curator, explorer, paranormal researcher, Visiting Assistant Professor in New Genres at UCLA and Special Correspondent for Fortean Times. He lives in Los Angeles.

Monograph

Moving Targets

Rachel Harrison's installations and sculptures explore hierarchies of display and cultural value by Jennifer Allen

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 Gallery, 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