Frieze Magazine | Archive

Issue 122 April 2009

The world of difference between writing a blog and an article for print publication by Christy Lange

Proclamation

Principles of Negative Art

Negative Art defines itself negatively. It can only be described by a catalog of what it is not. by Olav Westphalen

View from the Bridge

Injury and Insult

The scandalous closure of Brandeis University’s famed Rose Art Museum by Robert Storr

Informant

Tunnel Vision

A new exhibition about New York’s underground earth works reveals a quasi-mythological mirror image of the city by George Pendle

Pretty, Pretty Good

Careless Whisper

Might the art world’s discretion on economic matters amount to a denial? by Jennifer Allen

Naturism

Tune in, Drop out

Born just over a century ago, eden ahbez – the original hippy or ‘Nature Boy’ – was the most eccentric and successful songwriter you’ve never heard of by Jonty Claypole

Architecture

The Brutal Truth

Many of Europe and America’s most controversial buildings currently await an uncertain fate, raising the issue of aesthetic success versus social function by Joe Scanlan

Ideal Syllabus

Carol Bove

In an ongoing series, frieze asks an artist, curator or writer to list the books that have influenced them

Books

Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire

Iain Sinclair (Hamish Hamilton, 2009) by Dan Fox

Books

The Meaning Of Sarkozy

Alain Badiou (Verso, London, 2009) by Mark Fisher

Books

Las Vegas Studio

eds. Hilar Stadler and Martino Stierli (Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich, 2009) by Sam Jacob

Music

From an Ancient Star

Belbury Poly (Ghost Box, 2009) by Sam Thorne

Music

The Roots of El-B

Various artists (Tempa, 2009) by Mark Fisher

Music

Dance Mother

Telepathe (V2/Cooperative, 2009) by Daniel Trilling

Focus

Anna Barriball

Posters, leaves and photographs, drawing, detachment and intimacy by Chris Fite-Wassilak

Focus

Stuart Ringholt

Embarrassment and abnormality; rearranged faces and rotating horizons by Nicola Harvey

Monograph

Signs of Life

Using materials as diverse as paper, food, fish and dust, Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander creates works influenced by ideas of home, travel, translation and transience by Sam Thorne

Monograph

An extension of his involvement in Indian politics and human rights, Amar Kanwar’s multilayered films and installations prompt ‘revelations, of different kinds, for different individuals’ by Sean O’Toole

Polyphilo’s Dream

In the 1940s Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer defined the culture industry as a combination of cinema and radio. How has the Internet affected new definitions of a contemporary culture industry? The imaginary architecture in a 15th-century book may provide the answer by Diedrich Diederichsen

Monograph

Who is Sterling Ruby?

Grappling with the work of an artist who relishes multiple viewpoints, myriad materials and a slippery approach to meaning by Julian Myers

City Report

Tel Aviv

Israel’s second largest city is known as ‘the bubble’ for its air of detachment from political turmoil, its hedonism, cosmopolitanism and vibrant art scene by Nuit Banai, Eyal Danon and Galit Eilat

Questionnaire

Martin Creed

Martin Creed is an artist who lives and works in London, UK. Over the next year, his solo show from the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, will be travelling to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan, the Sonje Art Centre, Seoul, Korea, and the Museo de Arte in Lima, Peru. His solo show at the Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, in Tokyo, Japan, will open in May.

Focus