Issue 117 September 2008
Spot the Difference
Each Rabelaisian timepiece is different. Can you spot the difference between the two?
Musical Chairs
How the wealthy spend their leisure time and what it signifies
What’s It All About?
Are there no limits to the art world's expertise?
Marathon Men
John Cage, Hans Ulrich Obrist and their relationship to time
Search and Rescue
The hunt for rare African funk records raises questions about how the digitized music of the 21st century will be archived
Life in Film: Babette Mangolte
In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice.
Quote Unquote
With so many artists using references in their work, it’s time to question which ones are good, necessary or relevant
Meg Cranston
In an ongoing series frieze asks curators, artists and writers to list the books that have influenced them
5th Berlin Biennial: Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours
Various locations, Berlin, Germany
REN
Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Los Angeles, USA
The Burial of Patrick Ireland (1972–2008)
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Art Power
Boris Groys (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2008)
Berlin: City of Smoke
Jason Lutes (Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal, 2008)
Renegade
Mark E. Smith with Austin Collings (Viking, London, 2008)
Smiling Through My Teeth
Curated by Vicki Bennett, Sonic Arts Network, 2008
The Esoteric Disco
DJ Zeus, Consume Music, 2002/2008
Mothertongue
Nico Muhly, Bedroom Community, 2008
Pipilotti Rist
Pipilotti Rist lives and works in Switzerland. Her solo shows ‘Pipilotti Rist: YuYu’ at Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA), Kagawa, Japan runs until 13 October. Museum of Modern Art, New York, has commissioned her to create an installation that immerses the Museum’s Marron Atrium in ten-metre-high moving images, which will run from 19 November to 2 February 2009. Her solo show at FACT, Liverpool closed 31 August.
Paris
Forty years since the events of May 1968, Paris is plagued by unemployment, inflation and suburban unrest. Yet despite the city’s troubles and persistent clichés about its cultural life, a community of small independent art collectives and spaces is thriving
This Life
Since the late 1960s Lynn Hershman Leeson has employed multiple personalities in photography, performance and digital media to explore ideas surrounding identity
Social Patterns
In his sculptures, collages and films, Bojan Sarcevic explores the ‘ghost haunting modernity’: ornament and decoration
Corners and Crossroads
Since the 1960s Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles has been searching for ‘some kind of communion’ with the public
A Matter of Material
Sergej Jensen’s exhausted, expressive paintings, gallery interventions, rare films and moody music
Flesh Becomes Words
Steve McQueen’s first feature film reveals an artist increasingly interested in the relationship between language and the body
Happy Shapes
Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa talks to Emily King about his interest in the interaction between people, everyday objects and their environments
Jo Ractliffe
Photography, Africa, dystopian fantasies and ‘the present as a screen’
Karen Reimer
Prime numbers, humdrum sources and brainy embroidery
Karla Black
Sculpture, vivid provocations and a mistrust of language
Andro Wekua
Wax mannequins, childhood memories, sneakers and solitude
Back to the Future
Alternative histories and playful anachronisms shape Steven Claydon’s sculptures, paintings and videos
Manifesta 7
Various venues, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy
By Melissa Gronlund
Phantom Sightings
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
By Natalie Haddad
Adam Chodzko
Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK
By Sam Thorne
55th Carnegie International
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
By Jörg Heiser
Edward Krasiński
Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland
By Adam Szymczyk
Catherine Opie
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
By Christopher Bedford
16th Biennale of Sydney
Various venues, Sydney, Australia
By Max Delany
Folkestone Triennial
Various venues, Folkestone, UK
By Jonathan Griffin
Allan Kaprow
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
By Olivier Debroise
Walls in the Street
Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Nacionalna Galerija, Center for Cultural Decontamination & Public Space, Belgrade, Serbia
By Nicole Scheyerer
Marcel Odenbach
Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
By Catrin Lorch
Hello Meth Lab in the Sun
Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas, USA
By Katie Sonnenborn
Disobedience
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
By Martin Herbert
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Galerie Nächst St Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
By Katie Kitamura
Whiting Tennis
Derek Eller Gallery, New York, USA
By Jenni Sorkin
Jesse Jones
Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
By Tim Stott
Iran do Espirito Santo
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil
By Silas Martí
Soi Project
Ikon Eastside, Birmingham, UK
By Mia Jankowicz
Like an Attali Report, but Different
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
By Vivian Rehberg
Altered States of Paint
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK
By Sarah Lowndes
Amateurs
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
By Julian Myers
Jesper Just
Victoria Miro, London, UK
By Eliza Williams
Lots of Things Like This
apexart, New York, USA
By George Pendle
From Atoms to Patterns
Wellcome Collection, London, UK
By Ann Coxon
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