Category: Art History
Issue 142 October 2011
History Lessons
To coincide with its major relocation to a new site in King’s Cross, artist and teacher Malcolm Le Grice traces the history of Central Saint Martins, from the mid-19th-century to today. This is the first in an occasional series of essays on art schools around the world
Issue 138 April 2011
Artist Project: Barbara Bloom
Since the 1970s Barbara Bloom has used photography, installation, film and books as a means of looking at issues of collecting, museology, design, taste and our investment in the objects with which we surround ourselves. In this project for frieze, created together with writer Susan Tallman, Bloom – who is referred to throughout as ‘BB’ – presents selections from her 2008 installation and book The Collections of Barbara Bloom, a work about ‘the way things carry ideas’
Issue 136 January - February 2011
Out of Sight
The legacy of Guy Debord and the connections between terrorist strategies, the networked 21st century and historical avant-gardes
Issue 134 October 2010
Out of the Cave
What do the first art works and recent speculations about early man tell us about today?
Issue 127 Nov-Dec 2009
The Thrill of it All
Extravagant, experimental and often improvised: the spirit of young artists in British film
Issue 113 March 2008
Private Lives, Public Gestures 2
Exploring how art and politics have employed the medium of gesture, from The Last Supper through Albert Speer’s ‘Cathedral of Light’ to Frances Stark’s collages
Issue 113 March 2008
Private Lives, Public Gestures
Pitting Marcel Duchamp against Rocky Balboa in a silent struggle over the Statue of Liberty and the American Dream
Issue 110 October 2007
Things Fall Apart
Modernity, violence, narrative, repetition: slapstick shares as much with contemporary art as it does comedy
Issue 106 April 2007
The Other Side
Occult art has come a long way since the manipulation of photographic plates and painters responding to supposed dictates from the spirit world. Many contemporary artists are turning to the unseen to evoke a sense of historical space
Issue 88 February 2005
This Land is Your Land
Sprial Jetty is overrun with day-trippers, and you can sign up for a 'Tour of the Monuments of the Great American Void'. So much for geologic entropy






















