Back to the Future
Monograph
Alternative histories and playful anachronisms shape Steven Claydon’s sculptures, paintings and videos by Tom Morton
Happy Shapes
Interview
Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa talks to Emily King about his interest in the interaction between people, everyday objects and their environments
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.
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
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
Current Issue September 2008 
Smiling Through My Teeth
Curated by Vicki Bennett, Sonic Arts Network, 2008
The Esoteric Disco
DJ Zeus, Consume Music, 2002/2008
Mothertongue
Nico Muhly, Bedroom Community, 2008
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
Project Arts Centre
Jesse Jones
Derek Eller Gallery
Whiting Tennis
Galeria Fortes Vilaça
Iran do Espirito Santo
Ikon Eastside
Soi Project
Dundee Contemporary Arts
Altered States of Paint
Kadist Art Foundation
Like an Attali Report, but Different
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Amateurs
Victoria Miro
Jesper Just
apexart
Lots of Things Like This
Wellcome Collection
From Atoms to Patterns
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 September 1996
Manifesta
From issue 30 of frieze, first published in September 1996: Stuart Morgan on the inaugural Manifesta in Rotterdam. Manifesta 7 will take place in the Trentino region - South Tyrol, Italy - from 19 July 2008.
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?