Flesh Becomes Words
Monograph
Steve McQueen’s first feature film reveals an artist increasingly interested in the relationship between language and the body by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith
Happy Shapes
Interview
Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa talks to Emily King about his interest in the interaction between people, everyday objects and their environments
Paris
City Report
Forty years since the events of May 1968, Paris is plagued by unemployment, inflation and suburban unrest. Yet despite the city’s troubles and persistent clichés about its cultural life, a community of small independent art collectives and spaces is thriving
Back to the Future
Monograph
Alternative histories and playful anachronisms shape Steven Claydon’s sculptures, paintings and videos by Tom Morton
Social Patterns
Monograph
In his sculptures, collages and films, Bojan Sarcevic explores the ‘ghost haunting modernity’: ornament, decoration, patterned surfaces and architecture by Jennifer Allen. Including Sarcevic's Only After Dark (2007) film.
Current Issue September 2008 
Search and Rescue
The hunt for rare African funk records raises questions about how the digitized music of the 21st century will be archived
Spot the Difference
Each Rabelaisian timepiece is different. Can you spot the difference between the two?
Musical Chairs
How the wealthy spend their leisure time and what it signifies
What’s It All About?
Are there no limits to the art world's expertise?
Marathon Men
John Cage, Hans Ulrich Obrist and their relationship to time
Babette Mangolte
In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice.
Quote Unquote
With so many artists using references in their work, it’s time to question which ones are good, necessary or relevant
Pipilotti Rist
Pipilotti Rist lives and works in Switzerland. Her solo shows ‘Pipilotti Rist: YuYu’ at Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA), Kagawa, Japan runs until 13 October. Museum of Modern Art, New York, has commissioned her to create an installation that immerses the Museum’s Marron Atrium in ten-metre-high moving images, which will run from 19 November to 2 February 2009. Her solo show at FACT, Liverpool closed 31 August.
Paris
Forty years since the events of May 1968, Paris is plagued by unemployment, inflation and suburban unrest. Yet despite the city’s troubles and persistent clichés about its cultural life, a community of small independent art collectives and spaces is thriving
This Life
Since the late 1960s Lynn Hershman Leeson has employed multiple personalities in photography, performance and digital media to explore ideas surrounding identity
Social Patterns
In his sculptures, collages and films, Bojan Sarcevic explores the ‘ghost haunting modernity’: ornament and decoration
Corners and Crossroads
Since the 1960s Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles has been searching for ‘some kind of communion’ with the public
A Matter of Material
Sergej Jensen’s exhausted, expressive paintings, gallery interventions, rare films and moody music
Flesh Becomes Words
Steve McQueen’s first feature film reveals an artist increasingly interested in the relationship between language and the body
Various venues
Manifesta 7
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Phantom Sightings
Tate St Ives
Adam Chodzko
Carnegie Museum of Art
55th Carnegie International
Bunkier Sztuki
Edward Krasiński
Regen Projects
Catherine Opie
Various venues
16th Biennale of Sydney
Various venues
Folkestone Triennial
Museum of Contemporary Art
Allan Kaprow
Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Nacionalna Galerija, Center for Cultural Decontamination & Public Space
Walls in the Street
Kunsthalle Bremen
Marcel Odenbach
Ballroom Marfa
Hello Meth Lab in the Sun
Nottingham Contemporary
Disobedience
Galerie Nächst St Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Current Shows
Ibid Projects
Sights from a Steeple by Dan Kidner
Simon Lee
John Armleder by Katie Kitamura
Art in General
Only Connect by Emily Verla Bovino
Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers
Robert Morris by Natasha Degen
Galerie Jan Mot
The Title of This Show… by Sarah-Neel Smith
Wilkinson Gallery
Unrelated by Colin Perry
ICA
Nought to Sixty by Jonathan Griffin
Castle Arts
A Life of Their Own by Sam Thorne
Andrea Rosen Gallery
Tetsumi Kudo by Katie Kitamura
Gallery One One One
Jason Dodge / Tereza Buskova by Eliza Williams
Àngels Barcelona
Alexandra Navratil by Max Andrews
Camden Arts Centre
Anya Gallaccio by Eliza Williams
Palais de Tokyo
Jonathan Monk by Sarah-Neel Smith
Comment
All Buttoned Up
by Jennifer Kabat
Two months before the US presidential elections, a look at the history of badge design in American politics
Imaginary Soundtracks
by Dan Fox
Revisiting the Penguin Café Orchestra
Modern Ruins
by Mark Fisher
Hauntology suggests new approaches to exporing the buildings of the recent past
From the Archives
From May 1998
The Icemen Cometh
From issue 40 of frieze, first published in May 1998: Christian Haye on Olafur Eliasson. The 'New York City Waterfalls' project runs until October 13.
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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Publications
Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2007-8
UK £16.95. The latest edition of the Frieze Art Fair Yearbook
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?