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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

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Alone Again, Or

The persistent and enigmatic subject of women turning away by Jennifer Higgie

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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

Video
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Always at the End

Interview

Artist, composer and filmmaker Tony Conrad in conversation with fellow musician David Grubbs

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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

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State of the Art

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? by Tom Morton

View from the Bridge

The Unfunny PagesRegistered only

Panoramic historical narratives are alive and well in the world of comics by Robert Storr

Informant

The Numbers GameSubscriber only

The intertwining of business, finance, art and numerology by George Pendle

Pretty, Pretty Good

Being Jennifer AllenRegistered only

What it means to have countless namesakes on Google by Jennifer Allen

Curating

Club RulesSubscriber only

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A recent performance about masculinity and sport revealed cultural exclusion within the art world by Christopher Bedford

TV

Old HauntsSubscriber only

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? by Sarah Khan

Music

Inspiration Information 3With video

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Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics (Strut Records, 2009) by Dan Fox

Ideal Syllabus

Mark Pilkington / Strange Attractor

In an ongoing series, frieze asks an artist, curator or writer to list the books that have influenced them

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Interview

Always at the End

Artist, composer and filmmaker Tony Conrad in conversation

The Nixon ChannelSubscriber only

A project by Jeffrey Vallance

Focus

Giuseppe GabelloneSubscriber only

Enigmas, paradoxes and riddles: photographs of sculptures and sculptures of photographs by Vivian Rehberg

Focus

Olivia PlenderWith videoRegistered only

Bohemianism, grass-roots activism, urban regeneration and the voices of the dead by Melissa Gronlund

Focus

Julian GötheRegistered only

Parody, intrigue and innuendo; time travel, referentiality and social comedy by Jörg Heiser

Secret Society

Cracking the codes of Conceptual art by Jan Verwoert

Monograph

Social FabricWith video

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

Alone Again, Or

The persistent and enigmatic subject of women turning away by Jennifer Higgie

Monograph

Remember MeSubscriber only

Human cameras, fortune tellers, fake archives, unreliable memories – in Lindsay Seers’ films and installations, the truth is not what it seems by Tom Morton

Interview

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 by Alvin Curran

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Pictures Generation: 1974–84 by Kate Fowle

Various venues

Sharjah Biennial 9Registered only by Jonathan Griffin

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Tate Liverpool

Glenn BrownSubscriber only by Martin Herbert

New Museum

The Generational: Younger Than Jesus by Anne Wehr

Galerie Parisa Kind

Barbara T. SmithRegistered only by Amanda Coulson

South London Gallery

Ellen GallagherSubscriber only by Kate Forde

Museum of Contemporary Art

Dan Graham by Christopher Bedford

Esther Schipper

RothStauffenbergSubscriber only by Jennifer Allen

westlondonprojects

for Fans and Scholars alikeRegistered only by Sam Thorne

Various locations

One Day Sculpture by Max Delany

Greene Naftali Gallery

Paul SharitsSubscriber only by Kristin M. Jones

Lentos Kunstmuseum

Michaela MeliánRegistered only by Jakob Neulinger

Generator Projects

George Henry Longly by Colin Perry

Santa Monica Museum of Art

Elias SimeSubscriber only by Quinn Latimer

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

Interior/ExteriorRegistered only by Kirsty Bell

Modern Art Oxford

Transmission Interrupted by Nav Haq

Institute of Contemporary Art

Dirt on Delight by Melissa E. Feldman

Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi

Carol RamaRegistered only by Kirsty Bell

Three Shadows Photography Art Centre

Ai WeiweiSubscriber only by Carol Yinghua Lu

Badischer Kunstverein

Michaela MeiseSubscriber only by Michael Hübl

Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery

Adam McEwenRegistered only by Ingrid Chu

Magasin 3

Johan GrimonprezSubscriber only by Ronald Jones

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The Kitchen

robbinschilds by Lyra Kilston

Teatro Fernán Gómez

The ‘70s: Photography and Everyday Life by Christy Lange

Zendai MoMA

Yang FudongWith video 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

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Events

NGA, Vilnius

by Simon Rees

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A report from last week's opening of Lithuania's new National Gallery of Art

Opinion

The Iraqi Cultural CentreWith video

by Angus Cook

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What happens when artifacts become art: Jeremy Deller's touring exhibition in the US considers the situation in Iraq

City Report

Moscow

by Max Seddon

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Despite a lack of institutions and an ambivalence towards the market, Moscow's art scene continues to grow

From the Archives

Body Language

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.

Marian Goodman
Hauser and Wirth
White Cube
Lisson Gallery
Gagosian Gallery
Stephen Friedman
David Kordansky Gallery
The Common Guild


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