Film
Film
Stuart Comer and Rajendra Roy reflect on the best motion pictures and moving images of 2009
Biennials & Group Shows 2009
Looking Back
frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant biennials and group shows of 2009
Design
Design
Re-branding débâcles, online fonts, the closure of Gourmet magazine, the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus and a new film by Eugenia Bell
Music
Music
Dan Fox and David Grubbs look back at the highs and lows of 2009, including nostalgia, Alarm Will Sound and Terry Riley; Throbbing Gristle, Luke Fowler, Trembling Bells, Luc Ferrari and ‘Lust for Life’
Architecture
Architecture
Unemployment, the tallest building in the world, the London Olympics, new galleries in Metz and Rome, the Shanghai World Expo and contrasting spa designs by Douglas Murphy and Oliver Elser
Current Issue
January-February 2010
Spirit Guide
The many uses of the Zeitgeist
Talk, Talk
The trials and tribulations of the international lecture circuit
Made in Berlin
Being a foreigner in Germany’s capital
Reality Check
Philosophy in 2009: The Invisible Committee; speculative realism; an all-star conference on communism; new books from Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek
Books
Literary highlights of 2009, a poetry scandal, the Man Booker International Prize, artists’ writings and a new study on Robert Ryman
Film
The best motion pictures and moving images of 2009
Design
Re-branding débâcles, online fonts, the closure of Gourmet magazine, the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus and a new film
Music
The highs and lows of 2009, including nostalgia, Alarm Will Sound and Terry Riley; Throbbing Gristle, Luke Fowler, Trembling Bells, Luc Ferrari and ‘Lust for Life’
Looking Forward 2010
frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they’re looking forward to in 2010
Emerging Artists 2009
frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose who they felt to be the most significant emerging artists of the year
Solo Shows 2009
frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant solo shows of 2009
Biennials & Group Shows 2009
frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant group shows and biennials of 2009
Auckland & Sydney 2010
Two antipodean exhibitions, ‘Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon’ and ‘The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age’, will explore ideas ranging from the role of risk-taking to the complexities of geo-politics in making art
UNP and The Building
Maria Lind and Dieter Roelstraete talk to Anton Vidokle about the informal, ‘free school’ initiatives for art that operated for two years in Berlin
Whitney Biennial 2010
Simply titled ‘2010’, and curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari, New York’s famous biennial is in its 75th year. Bonami talked to Dan Fox about ‘American-ness’ – and how, for the first time, the show will include more women artists than men
3rd Moscow Biennale
Jean-Hubert Martin’s exhibition sought to mix Russian art with work from other cultures and different times
10th Biennale de Lyon
Curator Hou Hanru turns to everyday spectacle for inspiration
10th Baltic Triennial
Turning to Vilnius for inspiration, ‘Urban Stories’ built complex narratives from fraught histories
Nottingham Contemporary
David Hockney & Frances Stark
Sculpture Center
Mike Kelley & Michael Smith
Fondazione Galleria Civica
Civica 1989–2009
Wilkinson Gallery
Dara Birnbaum
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
For the blind man in the dark room …
Hauser & Wirth
Wilhelm Sasnal
Tate St Ives
The Dark Monarch
New Museum
David Goldblatt
Kunsthalle Zürich
John Miller
Galeria Toni Tàpies
Manoeuvres/Maniobres
A Foundation
Ben Rivers
Harris Lieberman
Lisa Oppenheim
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Rosalind Nashashibi
Richard Gray Gallery
Jan Tichy
Galerie Meyer Kainer
Verena Dengler
Studio Voltaire
Henrik Olesen
Ludwik Grohman Villa and Book Art Museum
Anabasis: Rituals of Homecoming
Lisa Cooley Fine Art
Erin Shirreff
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Alan Phelan
Taxter & Spengemann
Adam Putnam
Galerie Cinzia Friedlaender
Ruth Laskey
Hats Plus
Sam Porritt
Editors’ Blog 
BHL falls for Neo-Kantians of Paraguay
It’s almost too good to be true. France’s (self-)declared national philosopher-as-action-man, Bernard-Henry Levy – known by his initials BHL both to adherers and…
Current Shows 
Kunstverein Salzburg
Michaela Frühwirth by Manuela Ammer
Peep-Hole
Ahmet Öğüt by Barbara Casavecchia
Galerie Balice Hertling at Galerie Neu, MD 72
Isabelle Cornaro, Luca Frei, Falke Pisano by Mark Prince
Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin
Ellipse / Eclipse by Anna Altman
Spacex
Emily Wardill by Paul Teasdale
Galerie Grita Insam
Roland Kollnitz by Helen Chang
Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina
Manipulating Reality by Sam Thorne
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
Breaking Forecast by Sam Thorne
RENTAL
Brendan Fowler by Katie Kitamura
Triple Base
Todd Bura by Melissa E. Feldman
Ceri Hand Gallery
Samantha Donnelly by Ellie Nicholls
Johan Berggren Gallery
Lina Viste Grønli by Wojciech Olejnik
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Whose Exhibition is This? by James Donald
Arratia, Beer
Fernanda Fragateiro by Anna Altman
Various venues
Lens Politica by Aura Seikkula
The Drawing Room
Cornelius Cardew: Play for Today by Michael Hampton
Comment 
Berlin–Paris 2010
by Anna Altman
Thirteen exhibitions by Parisian galleries open in Berlin
Moderna Museet Malmö
by Christine Antaya
The second branch of the Stockholm museum opens with exhibitions from Luc Tuymans and Astrid Svangren
1st Former West Congress
by Vivian Rehberg
Utrecht, Holland
From the Archives
From June 1994
A Nod’s as Good as a Wink
First published in issue 17 of frieze, June 1994: Carl Freedman interviews Sarah Lucas.


















