Issue 123 May 2009
A Friend Indeed
Leo Steinberg's erudition, Pablo Picasso, James Joyce and fine dining
Future Conditional
In a culture swamped with dystopic images, perhaps it’s time to resurrect the lost art of looking forward
Man of Letters
Heinrich Heine, emails, art and friendship
All that Glitters
Disco balls and the society of the spectacle
Town & Country
How architects are dealing with the problems of housing the 600 million rural immigrants moving to Chinese cities
Pitch Perfect
The highs and lows of ‘Auto-Tune’, the software used in almost every pop song released today
Life in Film: Gerard Byrne
In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice
The Jet Age Compendium: Paolozzi at Ambit
Eduardo Paolozzi and David Brittain (Four Corners Books, London, 2009)
On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters
Ed. Bruce Jenkins (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2009)
Dada’s Women
Ruth Hemus (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2009)
Monoliths & Dimensions
Sunn O))) (Southern Lord, 2009)
Rinse: 08
Alexander Nut (Rinse, 2009)
Black Monk Time
The Monks (Light in the Attic, 2009)
Fiona Tan
Fiona Tan was born in Pekan Baru, Indonesia in 1966. She lives and works in Amsterdam, Holland. Tan is representing Holland at the forthcoming Venice Biennale. A major exhibition of the artist’s work is planned for Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland from May to September 2009; it will travel to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada later in the year.
Mind’s Eye
The animism and imagination of Phillip Allen’s painterly abstractions
Ms. and Mr Lonely
A museum show and feature film signal the return of Alex Bag and Harmony Korine, artists who rose to youthful notoriety in the 1990s and who have now moved on to something darker and more searching
Its Own Reality
Charline von Heyl’s paintings reveal a unique language developed in the face of information streams and image overload
Point Counter Point
Stephen Prina’s installations, performances and objects are characterized by their rich layers of reference and discursive discordance
Ruth Ewan
Archives, accordions and protest songs
Leigh Ledare
Confession, amateur porn, vulnerablility and a complicated mother-son relationship
Stefan Burger
Unused props and clearance goods; photographs with absent bodies
Tales of Everyday Madness
For three decades, the influential British artist Eric Bainbridge has been fascinated by surfaces and disguises, the exotic and the mundane
Fiona Tan
Fiona Tan was born in Pekan Baru, Indonesia in 1966. She lives and works in Amsterdam, Holland. Tan is representing Holland at the forthcoming Venice Biennale. A major exhibition of the artist’s work is planned for Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland from May to September 2009; it will travel to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada later in the year.
Peter Coffin
The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, UK
By Michelle Cotton
Darcy Lange
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
By Tom Morton
Keren Cytter
Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, UK
By Kathy Noble
Richard Patterson
Goss Michael Foundation, Dallas, USA
By Jonathan Griffin
Agnes Denes
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
By Simon Rees
Voids, A Retrospective
Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
By Vivian Rehberg
Oranges and Sardines
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
By Benjamin Carlson
Latifa Echakhch and Lili Reynaud-Dewar
James Fuentes LLC, New York, USA
By Katie Kitamura
Traces of Siamese Smile
Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
By Brian Curtin
Justine Frank
Extra City Centre for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
By Aaron Schuster
Michael Smith
Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy
By Barbara Casavecchia
Olivier Richon
IBID Projects, London, UK
By Sarah James
2nd Canary Islands Biennial
Various venues, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria / Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
By Max Andrews
Gianfranco Pardi
Giò Marconi, Milan, Italy
By Ara H. Merjian
Michael Norton
ACME, Los Angeles, USA
By Christopher Bedford
Declan Clarke
Goethe Institute, Dublin, Ireland
By Chris Fite-Wassilak
Irina Korina
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
By Max Seddon
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Blaffer Gallery, Houston, USA
By Kurt Mueller
Piero Manzoni
Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
By Ara H. Merjian
Ray Johnson
Raven Row, London, UK
By Kate Forde
Pablo Helguera
The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, USA
By Ingrid Chu
Mamoru Tsukada
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
By Katie Kitamura
Giorgio Andreotta Calò
Zero … , Milan, Italy
By Alessandro Rabottini
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