Frieze Magazine | Archive

Issue 95 November-December 2005

Google’s recent foray into satellite maps highlights the subjectivity of cartography by George Pendle

The Reformation

Is the recent trend of seminal bands playing their ‘signature’ albums a cynical marketing ploy or a stab in the eye of iPod culture? by Dan Fox

View from the Bridge

All in the Family

Is the new art history a one-party state? by Robert Storr

Laughter, Tears and Rage

Against the Wall

A new project by e-flux highlights an extraordinary archive of photographs amassed by Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros by Brian Dillon

Design

Good Looking

The best graphic design must be more than decorative – it has to make sense of its subject by Emily King

Debate

Take the Money and Run

Stuart Morgan once wrote ‘artists are not in competition with each other but with themselves and the past.’ That said, can art prizes be useful? And if so, how? by Iwona Blazwick and Jeremy Deller

Film

The Player

Miranda July is a video and performance artist turned commercially successful filmmaker. What’s the difference? by Melissa Gronlund

Focus

Richard Hughes

The decay of modernity, melancholy objects and shared cultural moments by Alex Farquharson

Focus

Dave Hullfish Bailey

Las Vegas and Berlin; bird-watching and urban development; mobbing and elbow room by Lars Bang Larsen

Monograph

Time & Place

While the gritty glamour of Marepe’s work valorizes the ingenuity of the inhabitants of north-eastern Brazil, its meaning is further complicated when it travels by Peter Eleey

Interview

Bringin’ it All Back Home

An interview with Martha Rosler about politics, feminism, the art world, media, religion and integrity by Christy Lange

Focus

Mircea Cantor

Artist meets con artist; travel and tourism; matches lit at both ends by Christy Lange

Design

Born in Munich in 1965, Konstantin Grcic trained as a cabinet-maker and then studied design at Royal College of Art in London. After graduating he worked in Jasper Morrison’s studio before opening his own practice, Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (KGID), in Munich in 1991. He has designed products for companies including Authentics, ClassiCon, Flos, Iittala, Magis, Muji and Plank. KGID, a monograph on his work, is published by Phaidon by Emily King

Focus

Mindy Shapero

Truth to materials; the mundane and the amazing by Christopher Miles

City Report

9th Istanbul Biennial

Including the work of 53 artists and artist-groups and held in spaces as varied as a vacant office building, a former tobacco warehouse and a run-down apartment block, the low-key and locally engaged 9th Istanbul Biennial, curated by Charles Esche and Vasif Kortun, was simply titled ‘Istanbul’ by Jörg Heiser, Erden Kosova and Jan Verwoert

Monograph

An Actor Prepares

Catherine Sullivan’s work skips between historical periods and locations, connecting Baroque ideas of ‘all the world as a stage’ with an individual’s subjectivity by Catherine Wood

Monograph

The Observer

Sharon Lockhart makes rigorously formal films that complicate the boundaries between fact and fiction by Michael Ned Holte

Questionnaire

Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore is Director of the Photography Programme at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Stephen Shore: American Surfaces, in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name currently on view at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, is published by Phaidon Press. He lives in New York.