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Issue 126 October 2009

How do you write a catalogue essay for a show that hasn’t yet opened? by Jennifer Allen

Party Politics

Domestic and social dynamics within the parentless homestead in the films of John Hughes by George Pendle

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Music

Some Deaths Take Forever

Bernard Szajner (LTM Recordings, 2009) by Mark Fisher

View from the Bridge

Tweenage Kicks

Michelangelo’s first painting goes on show in New York by Robert Storr

Ideal Syllabus

Ideal Syllabus: Tom McCarthy

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

Technology

Plastic People

Recent developments in humanoid robot technology by Karl Iagnemma

Economics

Show me the Money

How do we visualize the economic crisis? by Nina Power and Michael Sayeau

Life in Film

Life in Film: Tacita Dean

From frieze issue 126 October 2009, Berlin-based Tacita Dean talks about her favourite films

Books

Unconcealed

Sophie Richard (Ridinghouse, London, 2009) by Mark Godfrey

Books

Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong

Paul Smith (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2009) by Jennifer Allen

Books

Architecture Oriented Otherwise

David Leatherbarrow (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009) by Morgan Falconer

Music

Soundtrack for an Exhibition

Susan Stenger (Forma Productions, 2009) by Frances Morgan

Music

Polyphonic Voices of Georgia

Anchiskhati Choir (Soul Jazz Records/World Audio Foundation, 2009) by Sam Thorne

State of the Art

Value Added

The myriad uses of art and artists by Dominic Eichler

Monograph

Men Swallowing Swords, Men Blowing Out Candles

On the occasion of his major retrospective at Tate Modern in London, we present an homage to, meditation on, conversation with and analysis of the multi-faceted, 50-year career of John Baldessari by Benjamin Weissman by Benjamin Weissman

Ha! Ha! ... I Forgot to Laugh

John Baldessari by Barbara Bloom

Perception of Vision

Artist Jennifer Bornstein is fascinated by accounts of seemingly mysterious perceptual experiences. Here, she relates her findings and how they impacted upon her own work by Jennifer Bornstein

Class Act

What do we mean when we call someone, or something, pretentious? by Dan Fox

Monograph

Letting Go

Employing media as diverse as a suspended caravan, a levitating donkey or a swamp, the art of Lara Favaretto unearths the romance and possibility buried in futility by Tom Morton

We stop to look. We stop looking to live. Can we live and look at the same time?

A story inspired by the photographs of Paul Graham by A.M. Homes

Focus

Juliette Blightman

Quiet afternoons and meditations on the malleability of time by Jennifer Higgie

Focus

Sung Hwan Kim

Cultural and subjective mobility; biography, fantasy, myth and rumour by Jonathan Griffin

Focus

Clinton Watkins

Abstractions of sound and image; the meeting of purity and distortion by Michael Wilson

Border Control

Over-determining the function of an art practice can limit its power to transform, illuminate or respond to a given situation by Fritz Haeg

Interview

Live Work

This year has seen a resurgence of interest in the remarkable, often extreme, performances of Tehching Hsieh, who has been making art, in various forms, for more than 35 years. He talked to Barry Schwabsky about what being an artist means to him

Questionnaire

Paulina Olowska

Paulina Olowska is an artist who lives in Raba Nizna, Poland and New York, USA. She selected works for ‘Head-Wig (Portrait of an exhibition)’, currently on show at Camden Arts Centre, London, UK, and her work is included in ‘Moby Dick’ at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francsico, USA; ‘Modernologies’, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain; and ‘Paulina Olowska, Stephen G. Rhodes and Catherine Sullivan’ at Metro Pictures, New York, USA. In 2010 she will have shows in the UK at Tramway, Glasgow, and, in collaboration with Bonnie Camplin, at Cabinet, London.