Dublin
City Report
Despite the decline of Ireland’s ‘Celtic Tiger’ economy, Dublin’s artist-run and institutional spaces are thriving by Brian Dillon and Maeve Connolly
Alone Again, Or
The persistent and enigmatic subject of women turning away by Jennifer Higgie
Social Fabric
Monograph
Thomas Bayrle’s long and varied career as an artist reveals a sensibility shaped in equal parts by humour, absurdity and social criticism by Dominic Eichler
Always at the End
Interview
Artist, composer and filmmaker Tony Conrad in conversation with fellow musician David Grubbs
Out of Space
Interview
Since the 1960s, Joan Jonas has been exploring the possibilities of video and performance art. She talked to composer Alvin Curran about the evolution of her work and the importance of myth, music and history to her thinking
Current Issue
June-August 2009
The Wrong Words
When wall texts in museums and galleries are meant to elucidate and educate, why are most of them badly written, full of jargon, and painfully reductive?
The Unfunny Pages
Panoramic historical narratives are alive and well in the world of comics
The Numbers Game
The intertwining of business, finance, art and numerology
Being Jennifer Allen
What it means to have countless namesakes on Google
Club Rules
A recent performance about masculinity and sport revealed cultural exclusion within the art world
Old Haunts
Traditional ghosts in popular culture are being replaced by images of pathology and bodily decay. What does this reveal about our changing attitudes to death?
Inspiration Information 3
Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics (Strut Records, 2009)
Mark Pilkington / Strange Attractor
In an ongoing series, frieze asks an artist, curator or writer to list the books that have influenced them
Always at the End
Artist, composer and filmmaker Tony Conrad in conversation
The Nixon Channel
A project
Giuseppe Gabellone
Enigmas, paradoxes and riddles: photographs of sculptures and sculptures of photographs
Olivia Plender
Bohemianism, grass-roots activism, urban regeneration and the voices of the dead
Julian Göthe
Parody, intrigue and innuendo; time travel, referentiality and social comedy
Secret Society
Cracking the codes of Conceptual art
Social Fabric
Thomas Bayrle’s long and varied career as an artist reveals a sensibility shaped in equal parts by humour, absurdity and social criticism
Alone Again, Or
The persistent and enigmatic subject of women turning away
Remember Me
Human cameras, fortune tellers, fake archives, unreliable memories – in Lindsay Seers’ films and installations, the truth is not what it seems
Out of Space
Since the 1960s, Joan Jonas has been exploring the possibilities of video and performance art. She talked about the evolution of her work and the importance of myth, music and history to her thinking
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Pictures Generation: 1974–84
Various venues
Sharjah Biennial 9
Tate Liverpool
Glenn Brown
New Museum
The Generational: Younger Than Jesus
Galerie Parisa Kind
Barbara T. Smith
South London Gallery
Ellen Gallagher
Museum of Contemporary Art
Dan Graham
Esther Schipper
RothStauffenberg
westlondonprojects
for Fans and Scholars alike
Various locations
One Day Sculpture
Greene Naftali Gallery
Paul Sharits
Lentos Kunstmuseum
Michaela Melián
Generator Projects
George Henry Longly
Santa Monica Museum of Art
Elias Sime
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Interior/Exterior
Modern Art Oxford
Transmission Interrupted
Institute of Contemporary Art
Dirt on Delight
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi
Carol Rama
Three Shadows Photography Art Centre
Ai Weiwei
Badischer Kunstverein
Michaela Meise
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery
Adam McEwen
Magasin 3
Johan Grimonprez
Editors’ Blog
R.I.P. Michael
In case you forgot, Michael Jackson who sadly died yesterday at the age of 50, was the best combined singer and dancer of the…
Current Shows
The Kitchen
robbinschilds by Lyra Kilston
Teatro Fernán Gómez
The ‘70s: Photography and Everyday Life by Christy Lange
Zendai MoMA
Yang Fudong
by Chris Moore
Christopher Grimes Gallery
Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck & Media Farzin by Sarah-Neel Smith
Morra Greco Foundation
Douglas Gordon & Jonathan Monk by Marianna Agliottone
ELASTIC
Per Mårtensson by Elena Tzotzi
Fermynwoods Contemporary Arts
Fascism in Ruins by Owen Hatherley
David Kordansky Gallery
Matthew Brannon, Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, William E. Jones by Jason Foumberg
Berlin Carré
Fake or Feint by Doreen Mende
Park Avenue Armory
Ernesto Neto by Anne Wehr
Scheppers Institute
Search For the Spirit by Esperanza Rosales
Gasworks
Everything has a name… by Colin Perry
The Renaissance Society
Several Silences by Christopher Bedford
Raster
Event Horizon by Daniel Miller
Gaudel de Stampa
Ida Ekblad by David Lewis
Fowler Museum
Continental Rifts: Contemporary Time-Based Works of Africa by Sarah-Neel Smith
Comment
NGA, Vilnius
by Simon Rees
A report from last week's opening of Lithuania's new National Gallery of Art
The Iraqi Cultural Centre
by Angus Cook
What happens when artifacts become art: Jeremy Deller's touring exhibition in the US considers the situation in Iraq
Moscow
by Max Seddon
Despite a lack of institutions and an ambivalence towards the market, Moscow's art scene continues to grow
From the Archives
From March 2002
Body Language
First published in March 2002: Jennifer Higgie on Pina Bausch, the founding director of the Tanztheater Wuppertal. The German choreographer and dancer has died at the age of 68.
Listings Jun-Aug 2009
Podcasts
The Aesthetic Responsibility Added on 17/10/08 Philosopher Boris Groys on the aesthetic responsibility.
Publications
Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2008-9 UK £19.95 The latest edition of the Frieze Art Fair Yearbook
Current vacancies
Frieze Foundation is looking for an experienced curator for Frieze Projects, Frieze Film and The Cartier Award. Deadline: 6 July 2009
