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Issue 127 Nov-Dec 2009

As a director, film critic and teacher, Harun Farocki has analyzed the changing role of the moving image for more than 40 years by Coco Fusco

Focus

Cao Fei

History and the future; East and West; community and isolation by Nicola Harvey

Focus

Becky Beasley

Mute, restrained objects and photographs; eloquent but evasive literary references by Christy Lange

State of the Art

Take Courage

Serendipity, politics and the timely return of Bertolt Brecht by Jennifer Higgie

View from the Bridge

So it Goes

Looking for art that reflects these troubled times by Robert Storr

Technology

Mad World

The successful deployment of melancholy as a marketing tool to sell war-based video games by Christopher Bedford and Jennifer Wulffson

Economics

The Net Effect

How free online media is affecting our offline expectations by Michael Sayeau

Life in Film

Life in Film: Ed Ruscha

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

Art History

Pieces of the Puzzle

A new exhibition and publication examine the evolution of Marcel Duchamp’s most enigmatic work by Thomas Girst

Books

Spaces of Experience: Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 to 2000

Charlotte Klonk (Yale University Press, 2009) by Brian Sholis

Books

Joseph Churchward

David Bennewith (ed.) (Clouds, Jan van Eyck Academie and Colophon, Auckland and Maastricht, 2009) by Tim Abrahams

Music

The Visitor

Jim O’Rourke (Drag City, 2009) by Daniel Trilling

Music

Prince Of Truth

Evangelista (Constellation, 2009) by Frances Morgan

Music

Manafon

David Sylvian (Samadhisound, 2009) by Mark Fisher

Pretty, Pretty Good

The Ydessa Syndrome

The shows curated by one Toronto-based collector are so good that others pale in comparison by Jennifer Allen

Books

Faber New Poets

(Faber & Faber, London, 2009) by Craig Burnett

Focus

Becky Beasley

Mute, restrained objects and photographs; eloquent but evasive literary references by Christy Lange

Focus

Cao Fei

History and the future; East and West; community and isolation by Nicola Harvey

Monograph

Regarding History

As a director, film critic and teacher, Harun Farocki has analyzed the changing role of the moving image for more than 40 years by Coco Fusco

Art History

The Thrill of it All

Extravagant, experimental and often improvised: the spirit of young artists in British film by Michael Bracewell

Home Away from Home

Novelist and artist Douglas Coupland’s pop-modern second residence in West Vancouver by Shumon Basar

Monograph

Stay with the Negative

Norwegian artist and novelist Matias Faldbakken responds to socio-political sore points with ambivalence and provocation by Dominic Eichler

Monograph

State of the Nation

American artist Jonathan Horowitz employs contemporary culture as his medium by Kirsty Bell

Interview

Something in the Air

German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk talks to Erik Morse about the 20th- and 21st-century phenomena of chemical warfare, designer ventilation and high-density urban living

Focus

Nikhil Chopra

Role-playing and cultural identity; a maharaja, a dandy, a queen and a hairy ‘native’ by Zehra Jumabhoy

Questionnaire

Dorothy Iannone is an American-born, Berlin-based artist whose work focuses on explicitly erotic and autobiographical imagery. In 1967 she left New York for Europe to be with Swiss artist Dieter Roth, with whom she had fallen in love in Iceland. This year two exhibitions – the first survey shows dedicated to the artist to be held in the USA since 1967 – have opened at Anton Kern Gallery and the New Museum, New York. Iannone’s work is currently included in two group shows in Berlin, Germany: ‘Die Kunst ist Super!’ (Art Is Super!) at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, and ‘Access All Areas’ at Galerie Max Hetzler.