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Issue 98 April 2006

London School of Economics, UK by Belinda Bowring

You Got The Look

Art for sale, the media, fictional Europe and moribund Punk by Polly Staple

All The World…

In staging large-scale participatory events, artists are creating new narratives for our cultural landscape by Nancy Spector

Informant

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 by George Pendle

View from the Bridge

Just Can’t Get Enough

Trying to see the big picture on a visit to London by Robert Storr

Laughter, Tears and Rage

Turbine Mall

Plans are afoot to transform the derelict yet ultra-moderne Battersea Power Station into a giant leisure complex by Brian Dillon

Music

Seen and Heard

Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker unleash the potential of Iannis Xenakis’ UPIC sound system by Dan Fox

London Calling

In the late 1970s, the streets that gave birth to Punk were a bleak and desolate playground for the imagination by Jon Savage

Music

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 by Michael Bracewell

Questionnaire

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 by Jennifer Higgie

Moving Parts

From exuberant sculptures to melodramatic videos, sentimental films and discursive performances Damián Ortega disrupts forms even as he creates them by Mark Godfrey

Definitely, Maybe

Using light, sound, text, video and objects, Angela Bulloch makes art that explores the systems that organize our behaviour by Tom Morton

Writing on the Wall

Dan Perjovschi’s simple drawings and cartoons mount a fleeting assault on the white cube by Catrin Lorch

Focus

Brian Jungen

Owls, Inuits and cultural collision; museums, marketing and clichés by Craig Burnett

Focus

Loris Gréaud

Ghosts, spells and invisible architecture; ducks, David Lynch and the smell of Mars by Tom Morton

Music

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 by Jörg Heiser

Focus

Uwe Henneken

An oak tree, allegory, spirituality and the Grotesque by Kirsty Bell

Film

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 by Jan Verwoert

Focus

Cris Brodahl

Femininity, decay; beauty, violence, representation by Melissa Gronlund

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

From issue 98 of frieze, first published in April 2006: Megan Ratner on the inaugural Torino Triennale. The second, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, is now open., Turin, Italy

By Megan Ratner