The Art of Giving
View from the Bridge
Eli Broad and LACMA; when patrons wrestle power from museum curators and directors, what does it mean for the public? by Robert Storr
Ways of Seeing
Monograph
French artist Marine Hugonnier’s films explore what the artist describes as an ‘anthropology of images’ by Lars Bang Larsen
Looking Out
Monograph
London-based artist Rosalind Nashashibi’s films and photographs observe the nuances of everyday life around the world by Martin Herbert. Shot in and around New York, watch Nashashibi's film Eyeballing (2005) here.
In the Hands of God
Monograph
Belgian artist Kris Martin’s explorations of faith and time employ myriad materials – from departure boards and novels to classical sculptures and watches by Jens Hoffmann
5th Berlin Biennial
Various venues, Berlin, Germany
A wasteland sculpture park, regularly rotating displays, and a 63-night programme of performances, screenings and workshops; Martin Herbert reviews ‘When things cast no shadow’.
Current Issue May 2008 
Nicolas Bourriaud
The first in a new series, in which frieze asks curators, artists and writers to list the books that have influenced them
Almost Blue
The release of the film Chromophobia raises questions about authorship and appropriation
Instant Wonder
The sophistication of Polaroid technology was not enough to save it from obsolescence – or nostalgia
The Art of Giving
When patrons wrestle power from museum curators and directors, what does it mean for the public?
A Cover-Up?
The ‘hand-bra’ technique as a metaphor for rhetorical self-reflexivity in the arts
Errant Children
Can a piece of writing ever precisely convey what the writer wants it to?
Into the Wild
In the music of his techno project Gas, Wolfgang Voigt drew on Romantic landscape and classical music as much as technological minimalism
Some Rules
Thirty-five forms of contemporary creation, or how to identify an art work
Ways of Seeing
Marine Hugonnier’s films explore what the artist describes as an ‘anthropology of images’
Second Life
Brian Griffiths’ installations and sculptures drag their historical baggage towards an imaginary future
Motion Pictures
Mark Lewis’ meditative films fuse pictorial tradition with the art of movement
Access All Areas
Taryn Simon’s photographs of restricted locations reveal an unsettling side to the American Dream
In the Hands of God
Kris Martin’s explorations of faith and time employ myriad materials – from departure boards and novels to classical sculptures and watches
Nicholas Hlobo
Phalluses, saddles and South Africa; handmade costumes and the Xhosa language
Jimmy Robert
Touch and appropriation; film, dance and gesture
Whitney Museum of American Art and Park Avenue Armory
Whitney Biennial 2008
Various venues
5th Berlin Biennial
Beijing Commune
Yin Xiuzhen
Milton Keynes Gallery
Marcel Broodthaers
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo
Contradictory
Anna Schwartz Gallery
John Young
Galerie Juliètte Jongma
Tim Braden
Chicago Cultural Center
Slightly Unbalanced
Battersea Arts Centre
Punchdrunk
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Antonio O’Connell
Mills College Art Museum
We Interrupt Your Program
BaliceHertling
Falke Pisano
Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh
Alan Michael
Mary Boone Gallery
Aleksandra Mir
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen
Santhal Family
Kerlin Gallery
Stefan Brüggemann
Broadway 1602
Matthew Chambers
ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst
Paul Thek
The Showroom
Bianca Hester
Current Shows
Elizabeth Dee
Josephine Meckseper by Kristin M. Jones
Museum of Modern Art
Sigalit Landau by Katie Kitamura
ABC
The Rodney Graham Band by Mick Peter
Arnolfini
Saskia Holmkvist by Colin Perry
Kadist Foundation
Pablo Pijnappal by Chris Sharp
Bloomberg Space
If: people and places in recent film and video by Dan Kidner
Galerie Jocelyn Wolff
Christoph Weber by Vivian Rehberg
Istituto Polacco di Roma
Transfert by Emily Verla Bovino
Sadie Coles HQ
John Currin by Natasha Degen
White Cube
Gregory Crewdson by Katie Kitamura
Comment
Angus Fairhurst
by Matthew Slotover
Angus Fairhurst's 'Gallery Connections' project
Different Thinking
by Jennifer Kabat
An interview with Rob Janoff, designer of the Apple logo
Frieze Writer’s Prize 2008 Announced
by Jennifer Higgie
frieze writer's prize is an annual international award to discover and promote new art critics.
How Japanese is it?
by Nick Currie
A round-up of the current art market and goings on about town in Tokyo
Face Off
by Mark Fisher
From Britney Spears to the Open University; a new book on album design questions the life-expectancy of contemporary cover art
Best Before 1995 - Part 2
by Ronald Jones
Editing the Bush administration; the second part of Ronald Jones' essay on language
From the Archives
From November 2006
Inside Out
From issue 103 of frieze, first published in November 2006: Jörg Heiser interviews Maria Lassnig. An exhibition of the Viennese painter's work is on show at the Serpentine Gallery now.
Podcasts
Cultural Cartography: Roni Horn - Added on 13/10/07
Roni Horn presents a keynote lecture exploring ideas of site- specificity and seriality
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Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2007-8
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Podcasts
The Expanded Gallery: Mass Forms for Private Consumption - Added on 13/10/07
What cultural value do industrial design, graphics and film bring to the spaces of the gallery and the museum?
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