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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

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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’

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Film

Film

Stuart Comer and Rajendra Roy reflect on the best motion pictures and moving images of 2009

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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

Video
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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

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State of the Art

Spirit Guide

The many uses of the Zeitgeist by Dan Fox

View from the Bridge

Talk, Talk

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The trials and tribulations of the international lecture circuit by Robert Storr

Pretty, Pretty Good

Made in BerlinSubscriber only

Being a foreigner in Germany’s capital by Jennifer Allen

Philosophy

Reality CheckRegistered only

Philosophy in 2009: The Invisible Committee; speculative realism; an all-star conference on communism; new books from Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek by Mark Fisher

Books

Books

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Literary highlights of 2009, a poetry scandal, the Man Booker International Prize, artists’ writings and a new study on Robert Ryman by Amit Chaudhuri and Brian Sholis

Film

FilmWith video

The best motion pictures and moving images of 2009 by Stuart Comer and Rajendra Roy

Design

DesignWith video

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

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’ by Dan Fox and David Grubbs

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Looking Forward

Looking Forward 2010Subscriber only

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frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they’re looking forward to in 2010

Looking Back

Emerging Artists 2009Subscriber only

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

Looking Back

Solo Shows 2009Subscriber only

frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant solo shows of 2009

Looking Back

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

Looking Forward

Auckland & Sydney 2010Subscriber only

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 by Nicola Harvey

Interview

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

Interview

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 by Dan Fox

3rd Moscow Biennale

Jean-Hubert Martin’s exhibition sought to mix Russian art with work from other cultures and different times by Christy Lange

10th Biennale de LyonSubscriber only

Curator Hou Hanru turns to everyday spectacle for inspiration by Vivian Rehberg

10th Baltic TriennialRegistered only

Turning to Vilnius for inspiration, ‘Urban Stories’ built complex narratives from fraught histories by Jennifer Higgie

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Kunsthalle Fridericianum

Meshac GabaSubscriber only by Amanda Coulson

Cabinet

Victor Houteff by Natalie Haddad

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Wysing Arts Centre

Mark Aerial Waller by Kathy Noble

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

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Events

Berlin–Paris 2010

by Anna Altman

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Thirteen exhibitions by Parisian galleries open in Berlin

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Moderna Museet Malmö

by Christine Antaya

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The second branch of the Stockholm museum opens with exhibitions from Luc Tuymans and Astrid Svangren

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1st Former West Congress

by Vivian Rehberg

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Utrecht, Holland

From the Archives

West End Boys

From May 2003

West End Boys

First published in issue 75 of frieze, May 2003: Dan Fox and Polly Staple talk to Oliver Payne and Nick Relph

Gladstone Gallery
Hauser and Wirth
Spruth Magers
Marian Goodman
Lisson Gallery
White Cube
Maureen Paley
Stephen Friedman
ICA
Liverpool Biennial


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