Issue 111 Nov-Dec 2007
How German is it?
Is Berlin the new Cairo?
It Ain’t Easy
How confusion can be creative
Lead by Example
Sol LeWitt's exemplary approach to art and life
Hektor Meets Dexter Sinister
Swiss Institute, New York, USA
Turkish Delight
Of the three main venues occupied by the Istanbul Biennial, the Atatürk Cultural Centre was the most resonant and contested
New New Museum
Manhattan celebrates the reemergence of a much loved yet wholly reconstituted institution
Heavy Metal
As a new book on Public Image Ltd shows, the influence of their 1979 album Metal Box stretches far and wide
Alasdair Gray and Hans Ulrich Obrist in Conversation
Riflemaker, London, UK
Steven Campbell
1953-2007
Július Koller
1939-2007
Life in Film: James Benning
In 'Life in Film', an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice.
Art U Need: My Part in the Public Art Revolution
Bob and Roberta Smith (Black Dog Publishing, London, 2007)
Men in Space
Tom McCarthy (Alma Books, London, 2007)
Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation
Eyal Weizman (Verso, London and New York, 2007)
Mort aux Vaches Ekstra
Gæoudjiparl (Pork Salad Press, 2007)
The Journal of Popular Noise, Vol. 1, Issues 1–3
(The Journal of Popular Noise, 2007)
Live 1974
Harmonia (Grönland Records, 2007)
Manuel Göttsching’s Official Birthday Party
Watergate, Berlin, Germany
The Shape of Things
Charles Ray's new work continues to explore the themes of space, objecthood and mimesis that have been at the centre of his practice for over 30 years
Mining for Gold
Lucy Skaer's drawings, films and sculptures transform images of prisons, dictionaries, museums and whales into maverick meditations on senselessness and beauty
Eloquent Obstacles
Christopher Wool's abstract, humorous, psychological, wordy, dramatic and figurative pictures
Real to Reel
When a low-budget Romanian film about abortion won the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival it heralded a new era of filmmaking in a country still struggling with post-communism
Corey McCorkle
The symbology of idealism; windows, balloons and Warhol
Tilo Schulz
Abstraction and utilitarianism: two sides of the same curtain
Haris Epaminonda
Lyrical apparitions that commune with the past
Torsten Lauschmann
Science, sociability and restless optimism
Context is Half the Work
In 1966, the Artist Placement Group was founded to integrate artists into businesses and corporations around Britain. Did the strategy bear fruit?
Once in a Lifetime
In his paintings, sculptures and installations, Michael Fullerton explores the vagaries of representation
Live and Learn
For over 40 years Argentinian artist Roberto Jacoby has argued that art should be social, rather than object-orientated
Siobhán Hapaska
Siobhán Hapaska is an artist who lives in London. Her solo show at Camden Arts Centre runs until 25 November.
Chicks on Speed
CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania
By Christy Lange
Stephan Dillemuth & Nils Norman
Vilma Gold, London, UK
By Andrew Hunt
Minerva Cuevas
MC, Los Angeles, USA
By Chris Balaschak
David Adjaye
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
By Bradley Horn
Primavera
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
By Adam Jasper
Michael Raedecker
Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
By Tom Morton
Her(his)tory
Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece
By Jennifer Higgie
Kristin Oppenheim
greengrassi, London, UK
By Jonathan Griffin
Chris Burden
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
By Jeffrey Ryan
Summer of Love
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
By George Pendle
David Lamelas
Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, London, UK
By Sally O’Reilly
Jeppe Hein
Sculpture Center, New York, USA
By Morgan Falconer
John Bock
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
By Amanda Coulson
Børre Sæthre
Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
By Kjetil Røed
Eva Berendes
Ancient & Modern, London, UK
By Melissa Gronlund
Eric Baudelaire
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, USA
By Claire Gilman
Daniel Guzmán
Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
By Jessica Berlanga Taylor
Thomas Locher
Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
By Michael Hübl
Wang Luyan
Arario Gallery, Beijing, China
By Carol Yinghua Lu
Thea Djordjadze
Studio Voltaire, London, UK
By Dan Fox
Kinetic Abstraction
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
By Morgan Falconer
Peter Friedl
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France
By Vivian Rehberg
Homemade
63 Waterloo Road, Dublin, Ireland
By Chris Fite-Wassilak
Mike Nelson
Essex Street Market, New York, USA
By Kristin M. Jones
4th Ars Baltica Triennial
KUMU Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
By Simon Rees
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