Frieze Magazine | Archive

The tragic death of David Foster Wallace has robbed the world of a writer who brilliantly reflected upon the joys and complications of both language and living by Jerome Boyd-Maunsell

Pretty, Pretty Good

Not so Black and White

Are reproductions of art works helpful, or do they confuse our experience of the real thing? by Jennifer Allen

More Than A Feeling

Work it Out

Keeping fit, autonomy, disappointment and art criticism by Tirdad Zolghadr

View from the Bridge

Courage and Convictions

The first India Art Summit prompted timely debates about artistic freedom on the subcontinent by Robert Storr

Livid at not being included in ethnographer Sarah Thornton’s book Seven Days in The Art World (Granta, 2008), curator Jean-Philippe Obu-Stevenson has paid frieze an undisclosed sum to publish the following exclusive extract from the preface to his forthcoming sociological bodice-ripper Don’t You Know Who I Am? Actualizing Myself in the Art World (Editions Obu-Stevenson, Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, 2009) by Jean-Philippe Obu-Stevenson

State of the Art

Debit and Credit

How to stop worrying and love the ‘content crunch’ by Dan Fox

Life in Film

Life in Film: Clio Barnard

In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice

Interview

On Making Pictures

Glaswegian novelist and artist Alasdair Gray answers questions from frieze about his approach to art, life and literature. Canongate will publish a visual biography of the artist’s work, A Life In Pictures, next year

Interview

Metal Works

Richard Serra’s new show of monumental sculptures heralds the artist’s first exhibition in London for 16 years. In a rare interview, he talked with Adrian Searle about the evolution of his ideas and his plans for the future

Questionnaire

Annika Ström

After 12 years in Berlin, Swedish artist Annika Ström now lives in Hove, UK. Her new monograph annika ström live!, edited by Christophe Boutin and published by Fälth & Hässler and onestar press, is out now. She has recently had solo shows at c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, and Uddevalla Konsthall, Sweden and her exhibition at Lautom Contemporary, Oslo, runs until 7 December. Her work is also included in the group shows ‘Intimacy’ at ACCA, Melbourne, until 30 November, and ‘Sonic Voices, Rocking Hard’, at the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, until 2 November. She is currently working on her first feature-length script.

Monograph

Here, There and Everywhere

Melik Ohanian’s aim to ‘question the operative mode of the exhibition’ is apparent in his complex, multimedia project which recently opened in 15 venues across Paris by Vivian Rehberg

City Report

Naples

Despite massive problems including organized crime, a chaotic infrastructure and an inability to deal with its rubbish, Naples offers much in the way of a thriving contemporary art scene, breathtaking architecture and extraordinary food by Jörg Heiser, Mario Codognato and Pádraig Timoney

Monograph