Issue 112 January-February 2008
The Colour of Money
Is a booming market bad for art?
Film
Highlights of 2007
Eternal Return
Retro culture and looking forward to the past
Music
Moroccan pop to Latin American rap
Things to Come
The opening of UCCA, a new non-profit arts centre in Beijing, is a cause for celebration
God Only Knows
Religion and the art world
New Year Quiz
Answers on a postcard, please
Architecture
From relentless development in the Persian Gulf to the slow pace of building in Rome, a survey the past year
Books
The literary highlights of 2007
How to Respond
A new book by Mark Godfrey examines how American abstract artists reacted to the Holocaust
Music
Discussing the past year in music, from feminism to the handcrafted underground
Design
Highlights of 2007
Biennials, Surveys and Retrospectives
frieze asked the following critics and curators from around the world to choose what, and who, they felt to be the most significant shows and artists of 2007
Solo Shows
frieze asked the following critics and curators from around the world to choose what, and who, they felt to be the most significant shows and artists of 2007
Emerging Artists
frieze asked the following critics and curators from around the world to choose what, and who, they felt to be the most significant shows and artists of 2007
2008
frieze asked 23 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they are looking forward to in 2008
16th Biennale of Sydney
Curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the 16th Biennale of Sydney opens this June, aiming to explore the dynamics and multiple meanings of revolution
Art Sheffield 08
The second Art Sheffield festival opens this February; its themes of exhaustion and overwork a poignant reflection of the city’s character
Enrico David
Enrico David is an artist based in London. In 2008 his work will be included in a survey of Italian art and design of the last 40 years at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Lyon Biennial
For ‘00s – The History of a Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named’ Hans Ulrich Obrist and Stéphanie Moisdon employed a novel approach to curating in the new millennium
10th International Istanbul Biennial
Curated by Hou Hanru, ‘Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global War’ was a solidly conceived exhibition that included 96 artists and collectives from 35 countries
55th Carnegie International
Douglas Fogle, curator of the next Carnegie International, talks to frieze about modesty, materiality and the meaning behind the show’s title: ‘Life on Mars’
Looking Forward: 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art
The next Berlin Biennial will comprise two parts, ‘day’ and ‘night’, and be structured around three terms: ‘human’, ‘thing’ and ‘use’
1st Athens Biennial
‘Destroy Athens’ was tightly presented, solicitously scaled, engaged with its locality and indifferent to the tourist board
Brussels
Why have so many foreign artists moved to the Belgian capital? Is it the cheap rents and sardonic humour, Art Nouveau treasures and postwar architectural eyesores – or the fact that it spent much of 2007 without a government?
The Painting of Modern Life
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
By David Campany
Anyang Public Art Project
Anyang, Anyang, South Korea
By Emily Pethick
Alice Neel
Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany
By Kirsty Bell
Richard Prince
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
By Steven Stern
Pop Art Is…
Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
By Michael Bracewell
Pioneers/Passengers
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
By Julian Myers
The World as a Stage
Tate Modern, London, UK
By Dan Fox
Charline von Heyl
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
By Catrin Lorch
JoAnn Verburg
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
By Kristin M. Jones
Christina Mackie
Herald St, London, UK
By Tom Morton
Olaf Breuning
migros museum, Zurich, Switzerland
By Burkhard Meltzer
Mateo López
KBK Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
By Olivier Debroise
Nick Mauss
Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
By Kirsty Bell
Friedrich Kunath
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
By Morgan Falconer
Trisha Donnelly
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
By Jonathan Griffin
Mike Kelley
Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany
By Holger Liebs
The Geometry of Hope
Grey Art Gallery, New York, USA
By Anne Wehr
Charles Henri Ford
Between Bridges, London, UK
By Maria Fusco
Josef Dabernig
Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria
By Matthias Dusini
Raymond Pettibon
David Zwirner, New York, USA
By Mark Beasley
Dan Rees
Parade, London, UK
By Andrew Hunt
Forms of Concepts
Fine Arts Literature Art Centre, Wuhan, China
By Carol Yinghua Lu
Tercerunquinto
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, USA
By Julian Myers
Olle Bærtling
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
By Ronald Jones
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