Frieze Magazine | Archive

Issue 130 April 2010

The role of the dead in the lives of the living by Jennifer Higgie

View from the Bridge

Double Vision

A tale of overlapping interests by Robert Storr

Informant

A Tomb of One’s Own

Edgar Allan Poe, the disappearance of the 'Poe Toaster' and the best way to find a grave by George Pendle

Pretty, Pretty Good

Kinds of Blue

Finding different cures for sadness by Jennifer Allen

Art History

Some Things Moyra Taught Me

The intertwining of melancholy and possibility in contemporary photography by George Baker

Film

No Way Out

Does Michael Haneke’s lauded new film mark a shift away from his earlier critique of mainstream cinema? by Bert Rebhandl

Ideal Syllabus

Ideal Syllabus: Mike Nelson

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

Books

Konceptualizm w PRL / Polish Art of the 70s

Luiza Nader (University of Warsaw and Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, 2009) / Lukasz Ronduda and Piotr Uklanski (Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw) by Monika Szewczyk

Books

The Return Of Religion and Other Myths: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art

Eds. Maria Hlavajova, Sven Lütticken and Jill Winder (BAK, Utrecht, and post editions, Rotterdam, 2009) by Mark Fisher

Books

The Situationists and the City

Ed. Tom McDonough (Verso, London, 2009) by Owen Hatherley

Music

XXX Macarena

XXX Macarena (From the Nursery/Primary Information, 2010) by Dan Fox

Music

Have One On Me

Joanna Newsom (Drag City, 2010) by Daniel Trilling

Music

The Minimal Wave Tapes Volume One

Various artists (Stones Throw, 2010) by Sam Thorne

Decline and Fall

Tracing the history of ruins in art, from 18th-century painting to 21st-century film by Brian Dillon

Interview

New Romantic

The work of Cyprien Gaillard connects the ruins of Modernist urbanism with the monuments of ancient civilisations by Jonathan Griffin

Monograph

No End in Sight

Politics, poetry and the legacy of black and white photography come together in Shannon Ebner’s explorations of language and sign systems by Christy Lange

Art Criticism

What is Appropriate?

The role of art in responding to the Holocaust by Jörg Heiser

Focus

Stephen Sutcliffe

Taped footage, poems and archival material; collage, splicing and cheap effects by Sam Thorne

Focus

Björn Braun

Ornithology, rustic landscapes and furniture; ’60s magazines, periodicals and nature books by Dominic Eichler

Focus

Sara VanDerBeek

Biography, autonomy, portals and portholes; photographs, assemblages and sculptures by Graham T. Beck

Monograph

Between Me and You

Recuperation and representation in the work of Giulia Piscitelli by Pádraig Timoney

Questionnaire

Jeff Wall lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. He currently has an exhibition at Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France. A survey show of his work opens at the Albertinum in Dresden, Germany, in June.