State of the Art

Shock of the Old

What can the past do for the present? by Vivian Rehberg

Pretty, Pretty Good

Video Store

The dematerialization of the moving image by Jennifer Allen

Informant

Escape Artist

One man's crusade against 'woo-woo' by George Pendle

Architecture

All Change

New railway stations in Belgium and the UK reveal different approaches to utility and excess by Owen Hatherley

Biography

Last Things

The work of the late French artist and novelist Édouard Levé explores the ‘fiction of identity’ by Hugo Wilcken

Books

Mind Reader

The rise of the ‘neuronovel’ and its implications by Michael Sayeau

Education

Free Thinking

Is the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles the ideal art school? by Snowden Snowden

Life in Film

Life in Film: John Smith

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

Books

Books

The poetry, translation and fiction of Anne Carson and Lydia Davis by Emily Stokes

Music

Music

A number of new publications take diverse approaches to music, imagination and identity by Dan Fox

Books

Books

The poetry, translation and fiction of Anne Carson and Lydia Davis by Emily Stokes

Pretty, Pretty Good

Video Store

The dematerialization of the moving image by Jennifer Allen

Questionnaire

Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei

Interview

As We Speak

American artist Christopher Williams’ major solo show at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden this summer and Dutch artist Willem de Rooij’s current exhibition, ‘Intolerance’, at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, both highlight the connection between conceptualism and the image, between appropriation and autonomy. The artists discuss whether referentiality in art, if once polemical, has become an orthodoxy and if so, is there is a way out? by Jörg Heiser

Design

Come Together

Whether re-making found furniture or organizing a makeshift ‘Trattoria’, Martino Gamper produces ad hoc solutions for living by Emily King

Monograph

Time & Tide

On the occasion of a major touring retrospective, Lynda Benglis talks to Marina Cashdan about her 40-year career and Vivian Rehberg considers Benglis' legacy and her current retrospective by Marina Cashdan and Vivian Rehberg

City Report

LA City Report

From powerhouse institutions to tiny project spaces, legendary art schools and artist-run initiatives, LA’s dispersed art scene is flourishing by Fritz Haeg and Jonathan Griffin

Monograph

What Goes Around

Imagination as a form of resistance in the work of Klaus Weber by Kirsty Bell

Focus

James Richards

Low-resolution images, installations and curated film programmes; desire, politics and poetry by Paul Teasdale

Focus

Richard Aldrich

Portraits, abstraction and missing pieces; hobbits, systems and Syd Barrett by Natalie Haddad

Monograph

Follow Me

Social histories and spectral fictions in the films of Elizabeth Price by Sam Thorne

Art History

Out of the Cave

What do the first art works and recent speculations about early man tell us about today? by Tom Morton

John Cage

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK

By Sam Thorne

Liz Magic Laser

Derek Eller Gallery, New York, USA

By Katie Kitamura

Scott Myles

Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, UK

By Steven Cairns

Jef Geys

Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, USA

By Mike Powell

Animism

Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland

By Burkhard Meltzer

Gordon Matta-Clark

Galerie Thomas Schult, Berlin, Germany

By Mark Prince

Based On A True Story

ArtSway, New Forest, UK

By David Trigg

Jennifer Karady

SF Camerawork, San Francisco, USA

By Aimee Le Duc

Paul Sietsema

Cubitt, London, UK

By Chris Fite-Wassilak

Sue Williams

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland

By Quinn Latimer

Sergej Jensen

White Cube, London, UK

By Isobel Harbison

Other Space Odysseys

Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada

By Charles Reeve

Andreas Schulze

Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg and Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany

By Jörg Heiser

The New Decor

Hayward Gallery, London, UK

By Kathy Noble

Jo Baer & John Wesley

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA

By Dan Fox

Aaron Curry

David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

By Jonathan Griffin

Infermental

Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK

By Melissa Gronlund

Liam Gillick

Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany

By Mitch Speed

... For Those Who Live In It

MU, Eindhoven, Netherlands

By Daniel Miller

Kerry Tribe

Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

By Paul Teasdale

Richard Tuttle

Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark

By Chris Fite-Wassilak

Contemporaneity

Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China

By Carol Yinghua Lu

Mark Bradford

Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USAColumbus, USA

By Leora Maltz-Leca

The Surreal House

Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK

By Colin Perry

Mike Bouchet

Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

By Amanda Coulson

Greater New York 2010

P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA

By Mark Beasley