Frieze Magazine | Archive

Issue 120 Jan-Feb 2009

On 20th January, George W. Bush’s disastrous reign will be over, but the hard work will be just beginning by Robert Storr

State of the Art

How Soon is Now?

During economic crises, sobriety is not what art needs most by Jörg Heiser

Reflections

Sean Landers: Onwards!

What am I looking forward to in 2009? by Sean Landers

Informant

On Being Debonair

A new biography of George Plimpton and the publication of Frederick Seidel’s collected poems celebrate two suave writers by George Pendle

Looking Back

Music

The best releases of 2008 and the year’s most compelling work in the field of extreme music by Daniel Trilling and Frances Morgan

Theory

Are You Experienced?

How designers are adopting the strategies of Conceptual art by Ronald Jones

Artists' Homes

A Brief History of Time

The home of John Latham, one of Britain’s most radical artists, has opened to the public two years after his death by Martin Herbert

Looking Back

Film

The cinematic highlights of 2008 by Virginie Sélavy and Katja Nicodemus

Looking Back

Design

The best of 2008, from the Olympics to Obama, Macguffins, museum shows and new coins by Alice Twemlow

Looking Back

Books

Literary highlights of 2008 included a biography of Theodor Adorno, a new novel by Philip Roth and short stories by Ali Smith by Brian Dillon and Ian Sansom

Ideal Homes

Studio International

A recent exhibition of drawings by the Swedish designer and architect Greta Magnusson Grossman highlights the extraordinary career of an overlooked radical by Eugenia Bell

Looking Back

Architecture

Fierce jeremiads, ‘pseudomodernism’, the positive effects of the financial crisis, nostalgia and the tallest structure in the world by Owen Hatherley and Shumon Basar

Pretty, Pretty Good

Colour Theory

The history of racial segregation in American art galleries and contemporary identity politics by Jennifer Allen

Looking Back

Biennials and Survey Shows

frieze asked 18 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant biennials and survey shows of 2008

Looking Back

Group Shows

frieze asked 18 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant group shows of 2008

Looking Back

Solo Shows

frieze asked 18 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant solo shows of 2008

Looking Back

Emerging Artists

frieze asked 18 critics and curators from around the world to choose who they felt to be the most significant emerging artists of 2008

Looking Forward

frieze asked 18 critics and curators from around the world what they’re looking forward to in 2009

Looking Back

Prospect.1 New Orleans

The largest biennial of international art ever held in the USA opened last November, and helped to revitalize a city still suffering in the wake of Hurricane Katrina by Steven Stern

How Will This Affect Me?

Censorship, sexuality, creativity and the economic meltdown. Featuring a specially commissioned collage by Cerith Wyn Evans by Dominic Eichler

Looking Forward

Tate Triennial 2009

Nicolas Bourriaud, curator of the next Tate Triennial, ‘Altermodern’, talks to frieze about botany, modernity, time, class and exhibition-making by Tom Morton

Looking Forward

53rd Venice Biennale

frieze talks to Daniel Birnbaum about curating the Turin Triennial and his role as Director of the 53rd Venice Biennale which opens this summer

The Big Issue

The popularity of enormous sculptures created by Chinese artists has little to do with a rigorous engagement with ideas or materials by Carol Yinghua Lu

Questionnaire

Spartacus Chetwynd lives and works in London. She has recently had solo exhibitions at the Migros Museum, Zurich, and Le Consortium, Dijon. This year she will be included in the Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London.