Issue 96 January-February 2006
Design 2005
From newspapers to dresses, the design highlights of the last year
Books 2005
The best art and literature books of 2005
Venice Biennale
An interview with Richard Burdett, Professor of Architecture and City Planning at the London School of Economics, who is curating the 10th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice in 2006
Film 2005
From Hollywood thriller and 11-hour Filipino epic to Minimalist monuments in celluloid, favourite films of the year
Things to Come
Looking forward
Music 2005
Free-Folk, Grime, R&B, the return of Hardcore – what defined pop music in 2005?
Comrades & Friends
Has the magnitude of China’s second Cultural Revolution only been noticed by those with vested interests?
Profit of Doom
The recent boom in prediction markets has added a streak of clinical capitalism to the prophecy industry
Them and Us
There is a fine line between representing other people’s suffering and perpetuating it. In much contemporary art the exploitation of misery could be termed ‘poornography’
Beijing
The rapidly changing scene of the Chinese capital
Manifesta 2006
frieze asked critics and curators from around the world to choose what they were looking forward to in 2006
4th Berlin Biennial 2006
A discussion with Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick, the team curating the 4th Berlin Biennial
Looking Forward: Manifesta 2006
Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, has been chosen to host Manifesta 6 in September, 2006. The curatorial team comprises Mai Abu ElDahab, an independent curator based in Cairo; Florian Waldvogel, a curator and writer living in Frankfurt and Essen; and Anton Vidokle, a Moscow-born artist who lives in New York, and who is a founding director of e-flux. Inspired by Black Mountain College, which opened in 1933 in North Carolina, and whose teachers and students included some of the most important artists, writers and thinkers of the time, the Manifesta team intends to start an experimental art school in Nicosia
San Paulo Biennial 2006
Lisette Lagnado is Chief Curator of the 27th San Paulo Biennial which will open in October, 2006. Lagnado’s pioneering approach to the work of Hélio Oiticica will be incorporated into the framework of the Biennial, which is titled ‘Borderless Blocks’
Emerging Artists
frieze asked critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant shows and artists of 2005
Themed Shows
frieze asked critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant shows and artists of 2005
Looking Back: Solo Shows
frieze asked critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant shows and artists of 2005
Looking Back: Retrospectives
frieze asked critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant shows and artists of 2005
British Art (does It) Show?
Curated by Alex Farquharson and Andrea Schlieker, the British Art Show 6 opened at Baltic, Gateshead in September and will be touring to Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol. What does it reflect about the relationship between culture and geography in the UK?
Biennials
frieze asked critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant shows and artists of 2005
Allora & Calzadilla
Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla live and work in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They have forthcoming solo shows at The Moore Space, Miami and The Renaissance Society, Chicago.
Nedko Solakov
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
By Giovanni Carmine
Universal Experience
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
By Dominic Eichler
Walead Beshty
China Art Objects, Los Angeles, USA
By Chris Balaschak
Tropical Abstraction
Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, Netherlands
By Tom Morton
The Plain of Heaven
820 Washington Street, New York, USA
By George Pendle
R&Sie(n)
ARC – Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France
By Florence Derieux
Return to Space
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
By Jörn Ebner
Runa Islam
Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
By Belinda Bowring
Odd Lots
Queens Museum of Art and White Columns, New York, USA
By James Trainor
John Russell
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
By Robert Garnett
The Perfect Medium
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
By George Pendle
Campus
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
By Jonathan Griffin
Ecstasy
LA MoCA, Los Angeles, USA
By Julian Myers
The Backroom
Culver City, Los Angeles, USA
By Lauri Firstenberg
Brian Catling
Matt’s Gallery, London, UK
By Dan Fox
Yuken Teruya
Josée Bienvenu, New York, USA
By Megan Ratner
Martin Erik Andersen
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
By Niels Henriksen
Evidence Revisited
The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
By Brian Dillon
Tirana Biennale 3
Various venues, Tirana, Albania
By Jennifer Higgie
Ceal Floyer
Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
By Dominic Eichler
Olivia Plender
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
By Romilly Eveleigh
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