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Issue 128 January–February 2010

The many uses of the Zeitgeist by Dan Fox

Pretty, Pretty Good

Made in Berlin

Being a foreigner in Germany’s capital by Jennifer Allen

View from the Bridge

Talk, Talk

The trials and tribulations of the international lecture circuit by Robert Storr

Philosophy

Reality Check

Philosophy in 2009: The Invisible Committee; speculative realism; an all-star conference on communism; new books from Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek by Mark Fisher

Books

Literary highlights of 2009, a poetry scandal, the Man Booker International Prize, artists’ writings and a new study on Robert Ryman by Amit Chaudhuri and Brian Sholis

Film

The best motion pictures and moving images of 2009 by Stuart Comer and Rajendra Roy

Design

Re-branding débâcles, online fonts, the closure of Gourmet magazine, the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus and a new film by Eugenia Bell

Music

The highs and lows of 2009, including nostalgia, Alarm Will Sound and Terry Riley; Throbbing Gristle, Luke Fowler, Trembling Bells, Luc Ferrari and ‘Lust for Life’ by Dan Fox and David Grubbs

Architecture

Unemployment, the tallest building in the world, the London Olympics, new galleries in Metz and Rome, the Shanghai World Expo and contrasting spa designs by Douglas Murphy and Oliver Elser

State of the Art

Spirit Guide

The many uses of the Zeitgeist by Dan Fox

Looking Forward

Looking Forward 2010

frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they’re looking forward to in 2010

Looking Back

Emerging Artists 2009

frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose who they felt to be the most significant emerging artists of the year

Looking Back

Solo Shows 2009

frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant solo shows of 2009

Looking Back

Biennials & Group Shows 2009

frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant group shows and biennials of 2009

Looking Forward

Two antipodean exhibitions, ‘Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon’ and ‘The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age’, will explore ideas ranging from the role of risk-taking to the complexities of geo-politics in making art by Nicola Harvey

Interview

Whitney Biennial 2010

Simply titled ‘2010’, and curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari, New York’s famous biennial is in its 75th year. Bonami talked to Dan Fox about ‘American-ness’ – and how, for the first time, the show will include more women artists than men by Dan Fox

3rd Moscow Biennale

Jean-Hubert Martin’s exhibition sought to mix Russian art with work from other cultures and different times by Christy Lange

10th Biennale de Lyon

Curator Hou Hanru turns to everyday spectacle for inspiration by Vivian Rehberg

10th Baltic Triennial

Turning to Vilnius for inspiration, ‘Urban Stories’ built complex narratives from fraught histories by Jennifer Higgie

City Report

Ramallah

Life as an artist, writer or curator in an occupied city – the administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority in the central West Bank by Khaled Hourani, T.Z. Toukan and Daniel Miller

Monograph

In Some Small Way

Explorations in size and scale in recent Japanese sculpture by Edward Allington

Questionnaire

Chris Ofili

Chris Ofili was born in Manchester, UK, and lives and works in Trinidad. He has had major solo exhibitions at Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany (2006), Tate Britain, London, UK (2005) and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA (2005). Ofili won the Turner Prize in 1998 and represented Britain at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. His mid-career survey show opens at Tate Britain on 27 January 2010 and will be the most comprehensive exhibition of his work to date.

Interview

UNP and The Building

Maria Lind and Dieter Roelstraete talk to Anton Vidokle about the informal, ‘free school’ initiatives for art that operated for two years in Berlin