Frieze Magazine | Archive

Issue 132 June–August 2010

The mingling of art and elections by Sam Thorne

View from the Bridge

Post Script

Travelling to find the archive of the late Argentine artist Edgardo Antonio Vigo by Robert Storr

Pretty, Pretty Good

That Eye, The Sky

How we’re getting used to the view from above by Jennifer Allen

Architecture

Vanity Fairs

Shanghai Expo 2010 is the most recent incarnation of the Great Exhibitions that began in London in 1851 by Douglas Murphy and Biljana Ciric

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Informant

Get Smart

An updated style bible heralds the return of the preppy by George Pendle

Art History

People’s Choice

A new book documents 17 years of projects by art collective Group Material by Lars Bang Larsen

Ideal Syllabus

Ideal Syllabus: Beatrice Gibson

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

Books

Four new dystopian sci-fi novels set in the UK by Mark Fisher

Music

A handful of recent DJ mixes and online experiments point the way to a more communal form of listening by Geeta Dayal

Monograph

Different Voices

Memory, exile and cultural heritage in the films of Fiona Tan by Brian Dillon

Monograph

Past Present

From American Modernism to museum archives and the legacy of her artistic family, R.H. Quaytman telescopes time and place by Steven Stern

Interview

Variations on a Theme

Composer Nico Muhly talks to Dan Fox about his relationship to music, cooking and collaboration by Dan Fox

Shooting Gallery

The limitations of photojournalism and the ethics of artistic representation by Christy Lange

Monograph

From Room to Room

Drawing connections between architectural models, painting and Utopian settlements, the work of Ian Kiaer moves from the micro to the macro by Jonathan Griffin

City Report

Basel & Zurich

Despite the country’s insularity, Switzerland’s art scene is thriving by Quinn Latimer and Daniel Binswanger

Focus

Simon Fujiwara

Memory, fantasy and fiction; erotic novels, subversive histories and the cello by Kirsty Bell

Focus

Eva Kotátková

Imposition, discipline and confinement; wooden tunnels, metal corsets and classrooms by Noemi Smolik

Focus

Navid Nuur

Quotation, collaboration and dissemination; ice lollies, art magazines and floral foam by Dominic Eichler

Object Relations

The myriad ways in which contemporary artists have been dealing with their ambivalent relationship to the ready-made by Vivian Rehberg

Questionnaire

Mary Heilmann

Mary Heilmann is an artist who lives and works in New York, USA. Her show at Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany, is on until 5 June and ‘On the Road’, at Artpace San Antonio, USA, closes on 5 September. Heilmann’s work will be included in ‘ambigu: Zeitgenössische Malerei zwischen Abstraktion und Narration’ (Ambiguity: Contemporary Painting between Abstraction and Narration), Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland, 5 June – 13 September.