Issue 98 April 2006
‘Art After The End of Art’
London School of Economics, UK
You Got The Look
Art for sale, the media, fictional Europe and moribund Punk
All The World…
In staging large-scale participatory events, artists are creating new narratives for our cultural landscape
Pride and Prejudice
Whit Stillman’s re-released film trilogy is a celluloid portrait of wealthy young New Yorkers in search of a sense of identity
Just Can’t Get Enough
Trying to see the big picture on a visit to London
Turbine Mall
Plans are afoot to transform the derelict yet ultra-moderne Battersea Power Station into a giant leisure complex
Seen and Heard
Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker unleash the potential of Iannis Xenakis’ UPIC sound system
London Calling
In the late 1970s, the streets that gave birth to Punk were a bleak and desolate playground for the imagination
Wired For Sound
From their origins in the art student bohemia of Dusseldorf nearly 40 years ago to their iconic status today as pioneers of Techno, Kraftwerk have never compromised their singular aesthetic. An interview with Ralf Hütter
Kara Walker
Kara Walker’s film 8 Possible Beginnings, or the Creation of African-America; a Moving Picture by the Young, Self-Taught, Genius of the South, K.E. Walker (2005) was screened at Sikkema, Jenkins & Co., New York in March. Her exhibition ‘After the Deluge’ is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York until 25 June. She lives and works in New York.
In Other Words
Sue Tompkins’ performances and exhibitions explore the shifts and ruptures of reverie, recollection and allusion
Moving Parts
From exuberant sculptures to melodramatic videos, sentimental films and discursive performances Damián Ortega disrupts forms even as he creates them
Definitely, Maybe
Using light, sound, text, video and objects, Angela Bulloch makes art that explores the systems that organize our behaviour
Writing on the Wall
Dan Perjovschi’s simple drawings and cartoons mount a fleeting assault on the white cube
Brian Jungen
Owls, Inuits and cultural collision; museums, marketing and clichés
Loris Gréaud
Ghosts, spells and invisible architecture; ducks, David Lynch and the smell of Mars
Industrial Relations
Throbbing Gristle’s first album in 25 years will be released later this year. frieze talked to band members Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter, Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Uwe Henneken
An oak tree, allegory, spirituality and the Grotesque
Who Loves the Sun?
Since the early 1960s, Jonas Mekas has been documenting his life on film, creating a personal testament to friendship, exile and the flow of history
Cris Brodahl
Femininity, decay; beauty, violence, representation
Stephen Willats
Galerie Nagel, Cologne, Germany,
By Catrin Lorch Translated by Nicholas Grindell
Simone Shubuck
Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
By Lauri Firstenberg
Jon Kessler
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
By Katie Sonnenborn
Michel Majerus
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, and Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany,
By Dominic Eichler
Spinning the Web
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
By Maria Fusco
Cosmopolitan Modernisms
Kobena Mercer (ed.) , (IniVA, London, 2005),
By Kodwo Eshun
Daniel Roth
South London Gallery, London, UK
By Jonathan Griffin
Chronology
Daniel Birnbaum , (Lukas & Sternberg, New York, 2005),
By Brian Dillon
Real Punks Don’t Wear Black
Frank Kogan , (University of Georgia Press, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006),
By Steven Stern
Jack Pierson
Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, USA
By Katie Kitamura
An American Family
Casco, Utrecht, The Netherlands,
By Antony Hudek
Turin Triennial
Turin Triennial, Turin, Italy
By Megan Ratner
Alice Könitz
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, USA
By Chris Balaschak
15th Videobrasil
SESC, Sao Paulo, Brazil
By Tom Morton
Ellen Harvey
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA,
By George Pendle
Marko Lulic
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA
By Megan Ratner
Le Voyage Intérieur
Espace EDF Electra, Paris, France
By Vivian Rehberg
Bedwyr Williams
STORE, London, UK
By Kim Dhillon
Damian Roach
Gasworks, London, UK
By Melissa Gronlund
David Hammons: The Unauthorised Retrospective
Triple Candie, New York, USA
By Julia Bryan-Wilson
William Kentridge
Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
By Christy Lange
James Howard Kunstler
New York Center for Art and Media Studies, New York, USA
By James Trainor
Nina Canell
Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland
By Sally O’Reilly
Julian Göthe
Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, UK
By Mick Peter
George Brecht
Museum Ludwig,
By Sarah Lowndes
Sugimoto
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
By Richard J. Williams
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