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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 by Malcolm Le Grice

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’ by Susan Tallman

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 by Saul Anton

Issue 134 October 2010

Out of the Cave

What do the first art works and recent speculations about early man tell us about today? by Tom Morton

Issue 127 Nov-Dec 2009

The Thrill of it AllWith video

Extravagant, experimental and often improvised: the spirit of young artists in British film by Michael Bracewell

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 by Jan Verwoert

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 by Jörg Heiser

Issue 110 October 2007

Things Fall Apart

Modernity, violence, narrative, repetition: slapstick shares as much with contemporary art as it does comedy by Sally O’Reilly

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 by Lars Bang Larsen

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 by James Trainor

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