Issue 116 June - Aug 2008
Finding Time
A celebration of the over-looked, the under-appreciated and the disappeared
Press Release
The Best Lack All Conviction, While The Worst Are Full Of Passionate Intensity
Power Play
When so much art is trumpeted as being ‘political’ why do so few artists enter politics?
Art and Text
Two vindications of Conceptualism and its offshoots
Objects of Desire
The devotional aspects of looking at art
Editions of You
A revival in independent publishing has seen a boom in new imprints, often designed by artists, of classic novels and ‘lost’ books
American Beauty
Elvis Presley died on Madonna’s 19th birthday. As the queen of pop approaches 50, the two stars can be seen as complex and contradictory emblems of their shared homeland
Adrian Piper
In an ongoing series frieze asks curators, artists and writers to list the books that have influenced them
Raqs Media Collective
In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice.
Index / One Break, A Thousand Blows!
Bridget Penney (Book Works, London, 2008) / Maxi Kim (Book Works, London, 2008)
Exodus to the Virtual World / Digital Culture, Play, and Identity
Edward Castronova (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2007) / eds. Hilde G. Corneliussen and Jill Walker Rettberg (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2008)
Celebration at Persepolis
Michael Stevenson (JRP Ringier, Zurich, 2008)
Art of Field Recording
Volume I: 50 Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum (Dust-to-Digital, 2007)
Black Stars: Ghana’s Hiplife Generation
Various artists (Out There, 2008)
Fanal II
Fanal (Sonig, 2008)
Stifter’s Dinge
Heiner Goebbels, P3, London, UK
Impressionism is Feminine
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Home Works IV
Beirut, Lebanon
Fever Pitch
The art of football
Tom Burr
Tom Burr lives in New York. He will be exhibiting new work at Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, in the spring of 2009.
Susan Philipsz
Songs as memorials; the presence of the past in empty spaces
Klara Lidén
Anarchic urbanism; pigeons, song and dance
Roberto Cuoghi
Metamorphosis and ‘life-sharing’; decadent humour and demon kings
Javier Téllez
Invisible populations; animals, sight, translation and interpretation
Time and Space
The sculptures of Polish artist Monika Sosnowska respond to architecture, memory and emotion
Mr. Big
In the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, the visibility of artist and architect Ai Weiwei has reached an unprecedented peak. Yet despite his involvement in the design of the Olympic Stadium, he is well known for his vocal criticisms of the Chinese authorities. What accounts for his unique position in the cultural make-up of contemporary China?
Switzerland
An ostensibly tidy, punctual and neutral country, and a global economic force, Switzerland here operates as an enigmatic representation of the often quite abstract social and political systems regulating our world
Where to Begin?
Ryan Gander’s lectures, scripts, installations, videos, sculptures, paintings, children’s books, clothing, jewellery, typography, photographs, etymology, facts, fictions, borrowings and more …
Havana and its Doubles
Exploring the history of Cuba’s National Art schools – a tale that reflects the hopes and failures of a revolution
Still Life
American writer A.M. Homes talks to British artist Sarah Jones about photography, film, memory, roses, psychoanalysis, women and hair
Doors of Perception
The multi-faceted exhibitions of French artist Loris Gréaud reward leaps of faith with wild flights of the imagination
Travels with an Artist
Dominic Eichler recently accompanied Vietnamese artist Danh Vo and Thai photographer Pratchaya Phinthong on a journey to Vietnam’s Central Highlands where Vo was researching various projects, some of which involved endangered indigenous people and Christian missionaries
Flow
Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, USA
By Sean O’Toole
The Furious Gaze
Montehermoso Cultural Centre, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
By Jennifer Higgie
Color Chart
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
By Mark Godfrey
Culture Warriors
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
By Wally Caruana
Maaike Schoorel
Maureen Paley, London, UK
By Martin Herbert
Lutz & Guggisberg
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
By Yvonne Volkart
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
By Tom Morton
Carla Zaccagnini
Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo, Brazil
By Fabio Cypriano
James Coleman
Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
By Jonathan Griffin
Nathan Mabry
Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA
By Christopher Bedford
Vanessa Billy
Limoncello, London, UK
By Chris Fite-Wassilak
Manfred Kuttner
Johann König, Berlin, Germany
By Kirsty Bell
Art/=Vida
Museo del Barrio, New York, USA
By Jenni Sorkin
Glasgow International
Various venues, Glasgow, UK
By Martin Vincent
Ricardo Jacinto
Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
By Chris Sharp
Micro-Nation CAPACETE
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
By Kristin M. Jones
Estratos
PAC Murcia (Proyecto Arte Contemporáneo / Contemporary Art Project), Murcia, Spain
By Max Andrews
Tariq Alvi
2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco, USA
By Julian Myers
Milly Thompson
Peer, London, UK
By Eliza Williams
The Puppet Show
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Philadelphia, USA
By Nato Thompson
Renate Lorenz & Pauline Boudry
Les Complices, Zurich, Switzerland
By Burkhard Meltzer
AA Bronson’s School for Young Shamans
John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
By Katie Sonnenborn
Good Morning Mr Nam June Paik
Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
By Tom Morton
Cohabitation
Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy
By Frank Boehm
Maria Eichhorn
Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
By Dominic Eichler
Ann Craven
Knoedler Gallery, New York, USA
By Katie Sonnenborn
Tomas Saraceno
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
By Kristin M. Jones
Shahryar Nashat
Galleria S.A.L.E.S, Rome, Italy
By Emily Verla Bovino
Issues 
(View All Covers)
Categories
Most Viewed Articles (This Issue)
Most Viewed Articles (All Issues)
RSS Feeds
Podcasts
Cultural Cartography: Roni Horn - Added on 13/10/07
Roni Horn presents a keynote lecture exploring ideas of site- specificity and seriality
Frieze Mailing List
For news from Frieze join the mailing list
Publications
Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2008-9
UK £19.95. The latest edition of the Frieze Art Fair Yearbook
Podcasts
The Expanded Gallery: Mass Forms for Private Consumption - Added on 13/10/07
What cultural value do industrial design, graphics and film bring to the spaces of the gallery and the museum?