Frieze Magazine

Issue 96 January-February 2006

From newspapers to dresses, the design highlights of the last year by Emily King

Books 2005

The best art and literature books of 2005 by Max Schumann and Jerome Boyd-Maunsell

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 by Emily King

Looking Back

Film 2005

From Hollywood thriller and 11-hour Filipino epic to Minimalist monuments in celluloid, favourite films of the year by Bert Rebhandl and Ian White

State of the Art

Things to Come

Looking forward by James Trainor

Looking Back

Music 2005

Free-Folk, Grime, R&B, the return of Hardcore – what defined pop music in 2005? by Simon Reynolds and Dan Fox

View from the Bridge

Comrades & Friends

Has the magnitude of China’s second Cultural Revolution only been noticed by those with vested interests? by Robert Storr

Informant

Profit of Doom

The recent boom in prediction markets has added a streak of clinical capitalism to the prophecy industry by George Pendle

More Than A Feeling

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’ by Tirdad Zolghadr

City Report

Beijing

The rapidly changing scene of the Chinese capital by Waling Boers and Pi Li

Looking Forward

Manifesta 2006

frieze asked critics and curators from around the world to choose what they were looking forward to in 2006

Interview

4th Berlin Biennial 2006

A discussion with Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick, the team curating the 4th Berlin Biennial, which will open in March 2006. Since 2002, they have been running the Wrong Gallery, a non-profit and currently non-existent space that was previously located in a closed glass doorway in Chelsea, New York and hosted projects by, among many others, Lawrence Weiner and Tino Sehgal. They also co-edit the magazine Charley, which ‘digests and reshuffles images, artworks, and previously published materials’. In 2004 Gioni co-curated Manifesta 5 in San Sebastian in Spain, while Cattelan was a co-initiator of the tongue-in-cheek 1999 Caribbean Biennial. After three previous Berlin Biennials, which ranged from the happily conventional to the sternly educational, what kind of surprises will the fourth hold? by Jörg Heiser

Interview

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

Looking Forward

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’ by James Trainor

Looking Back