Issue 131 May 2010
Support Structures
Ed. Céline Condorelli (Sternberg Press, New York, 2009)
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2010)
On the Road, Again
Being an artist in Africa means constantly dealing with officialdom, ennui and endless waiting.
Notes to Self
What art writing can learn from the lessons of literature
Snap Shot
What a ten-year-old issue of frieze reveals about the rapidly transforming role of photography in both art and popular culture.
Mr Americas
Notes on two major retrospectives, of Andy Warhol and Hélio Oiticica, in São Paulo.
Dress Sense
Snow White, architecture and intolerance
Lesson for Today
The restoration of a documentary about the Nuremberg Trials – 63 years after it was filmed.
Life in Film: Imogen Stidworthy
In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice
Dubstep Round-Up
Recent releases demonstrate that dubstep is finally lightening up
Ernesto Neto
Ernesto Neto lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Earlier this year he had a solo exhibition at MoMA, New York. A survey of his work opens in June at the Hayward Gallery in London.
Reasons to be Cheerful!
An international selection of artists, writers and curators tell frieze what they’re looking forward to in the near future
Cut it Out
Tariq Alvi’s collages and sculptures explore the politics of sexual and cultural value systems
Surface Tension
From photorealist painting to elaborate installations, the life and work of Rudolf Stingel is characterized by a restless approach to media and styles
Room to Live
The work of Berlin-based artist Nairy Baghramian explores the political resonances of designed interiors and Minimalist objects. With Jörg Heiser, she discusses her Iranian-Armenian background; political art; her collaboration with pioneering designer Janette Laverrière, and her current exhibition with sculptor Phyllida Barlow at London’s Serpentine Gallery
Back to Front
As influenced by haute couture as he is by experimental filmmakers, Vincent Fecteau discusses his new sculptures with Bruce Hainley
Pictures of You
Anne Collier’s photographs of images and objects focus on the stylized vehicles of expectation and desire
Isabelle Cornaro
Oriental rugs, Chinese porcelain, inherited jewellery; miniature landscapes, tautological objects and 16mm film.
Alex Hubbard
Films, the expanded field and photographs; falling vases, melting wax and painted cars.
Anna Barham
Tangrams, prints and performance; the Phoenician alphabet, Roman ruins and Greek mythology.
Whitney Biennial 2010
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
By Dan Fox
Early Years
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
By Kirsty Bell
Tino Sehgal
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
By Katie Kitamura
Crash: Homage to J.G. Ballard
Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
By Kathy Noble
Sturtevant
ARC / Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville, Paris, France
By Antony Hudek
Disorientation II
Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
By Sam Thorne
A History of Irritated Material
Raven Row, London, UK
By Brian Dillon
Gabriel Orozco
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
By Quinn Latimer
Anna Maria Maiolino
Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
By Barbara Casavecchia
Christian Boltanski
Grand Palais / Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris, France
By Devika Singh
The Sun is the Tongue
Ancient & Modern, London, UK
By Jonathan Griffin
Gustavo Godoy
Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, USA
By Christopher Bedford
Tim Etchells
Gasworks, London, UK
By Colin Perry
Jungle
Platform China, Beijing, China
By Carol Yinghua Lu
Anna Parkina
Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
By Graham T. Beck
Ben Vautier
Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
By Quinn Latimer
Misty Boundaries
FormContent, London, UK
By Andrew Bonacina
Alejandro Cesarco
Artpace, San Antonio, USA
By Kurt Mueller
Laura Aldridge
Transmission, Glasgow, UK
By Sarah Lowndes
Scott McFarland
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
By Charles Reeve
H.A.P. Grieshaber
Hollybush Gardens, London, UK
By Kate Forde
Jan Peter Hammer
Supportico Lopez, Berlin, Germany
By Jörg Heiser
Kathrin Sonntag
Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland
By Burkhard Meltzer
The Phoenix Art
Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal, Canada
By James D. Campbell
Fakes and Forgeries
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
By Andrew Dodds
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