Frieze Magazine | Archive

Issue 113 March 2008

performa07, New York City, USA by Kristin M. Jones

Public Relations

Three artists exemplify new strategies in the production, distribution and dispersal of meaning in contemporary art by Polly Staple

View from the Bridge

Vital Statistics

Attendance by a huge cross-section of visitors was up by 20 percent on previous years at the 2007 Venice Biennale – one of the many facts that critics chose to ignore

Music

All Hour Cymbals

Yeasayer (We Are Free, 2007) by Sam Thorne

Laughter, Tears and Rage

Something Covered in Fur

A new collection of stories by Donald Barthelme serves as a reminder of the novelist’s playful and audacious raid on the Modernist canon by Brian Dillon

Books

Warhol’s Dream

Saul Anton (JRP | Ringier & Les Presses du Réel, Zurich and Dijon, 2007) by Brian Dillon

Life in Film

Life in Film: Peter Doig

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

Philosophy

The Beautiful Science

A new German translation of the 18th-century book that invented aesthetics highlights its relevance to contemporary practice by Jennifer Allen

Art History

So Different, So Appealing

Michael Bracewell’s new book on Roxy Music is more than the story of a band – it’s the tale of a particularly English social and intellectual milieu by Peter York

Books

Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures

ed. Kobena Mercer (MIT Press, London and Cambridge, MA, 2007) by Jennifer Doyle

Books

Walter Benjamin The Archive: Images, Texts, Signs

eds. Ursula Marx et al. (Verso, London and New York, 2007) by Ross Wilson

Music

Music for Shopping Malls

Support Structure/Various artists (British Council/KwanYin Records, 2007) by Dan Fox

Music

Wheels To Get To Heaven

Devine & Griffiths (Anhrefn Records, 2007) by Michael Bracewell

Events

performa07

Various venues, New York, USA by Katie Sonnenborn

More Than A Feeling

Classy!

Lower, middle or upper? Working, bourgeois or ruling? Dare we speak its name? by Tirdad Zolghadr

Focus

Annette Kelm

Photographs, repetition, time and misalignment by Kirsty Bell

Monograph

Finding the Right Darkness

Zoe Leonard’s photographs and sculptures meditate on wonder and loss by Jenni Sorkin

Interview

Born in 1972, Ján Mancuska is a conceptual artist who explores the materiality of language and film. Here he interviews Jirí Kovanda about his pioneering work of the 1970s – an encounter between two generations of artists

Monograph

Kiss and Tell

From waiting for a telephone to ring to making eye contact with strangers, for over 30 years the ‘actions’ of Czech artist Jirí Kovanda have explored the limits – and joys – of what freedom might mean by Noemi Smolik

Monograph

Thinking Space

For almost 40 years, Michael Asher has encouraged museums and art galleries to question the logic of their organizational and architectural structures by James Rondeau

Monograph

I Am An Image

Exploring the currency of categories such as still life, portraiture and landscape, Shirana Shahbazi has had her photographs replicated by sign painters, woven into rugs by Iranian carpet weavers and turned into posters by Christy Lange

Monograph

Here’s Looking at You

From Andy Warhol to Memphis furniture and Photorealism, Simon Martin questions art’s relationship to its context by Dan Fox

Focus

Mai-Thu Perret

Revolutions, radical women and the shifting function of objects by Andrew Bonacina

Focus

Gedi Sibony

Sculpture, impoverished objects and dislocation by Claire Gilman

Focus

Scott Myles

The play between awareness and image; photographs, objects, paintings and performance by Sarah Lowndes

Monograph

Strange Flowers

Martin Westwood creates images and objects that speak of how the language of exchange bleeds into other, more frangible realms of human experience by Tom Morton

Questionnaire

Matthew Brannon

Matthew Brannon is an artist based in New York. His work is included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial (6 March – 1 June), and a comprehensive monograph of his work, To say the very least, will be published in May 2008 by the Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, with a text by Philip Monk.

Art History

Private Lives, Public Gestures 2

Exploring how art and politics have employed the medium of gesture, from The Last Supper through Albert Speer’s ‘Cathedral of Light’ to Frances Stark’s collages by Jan Verwoert

Art History