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Matthew McLean

Matthew McLean is creative director at Frieze Studios. He lives in London, UK.

The artist’s exhibition at Migros Museum, Zurich, reflects on the political uses of platitudes and truisms

BY Matthew McLean |

A recent exhibition at Carlos/Ishikawa, London, conjured an experience of being controlled within a carceral capitalist state

BY Matthew McLean |

On the artist selected for the Deutsche Bank Wealth Management Lounges at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2019

In Collaboration with Deutsche Bank

From Marina Abramović to extinct tropical birds, seeing more than what’s there

BY Matthew McLean |

On the occasion of her Frieze New York 2019 presentation, ruby onyinyechi amanze discusses movement, time and her love affair with paper

In Collaboration with Deutsche Bank

Gucci and Frieze present the fourth film in the Second Summer of Love series, exploring Detroit and Berlin techno

In Collaboration with Gucci

For all the camp and capering, Eddie and Patsy’s antics also have a plaintive, even existential tinge

BY Matthew McLean |

The Turner Prize-winning photographer’s set design for ENO’s new production asks: can the greatest horror be better communicated by the unseen?

BY Matthew McLean |

Some thoughts on ‘Strange Days’, ahead of Frieze Music with Bang & Olufsen’s celebration of the UK premiere of Kahlil Joseph’s Fly Paper

In Collaboration with Bang & Olufsen

The artist talks about the inspiration behind his gilded wallpaper-mounted installation at Frieze London

BY Matthew McLean |

After the dissolution of their turbulent relationship, Oskar Kokoschka commissioned an accurately proportioned re-creation of Alma Mahler in 1918

BY Matthew McLean |

Finding Trump-aping parallels with the extravagant, tragic story of Ludwig II, at Madragoa, Lisbon

BY Matthew McLean |

An exhibition at CAMERA, Turin, illustrates photography's key role for the enigmatic polymath 

BY Matthew McLean |

Surreal currents, charged objects and deformed bodies in the work of four emerging British painters

BY Matthew McLean |

The Frieze New York 2018 campaign maps the poet and curator’s Lunch Poems

BY Matthew McLean |

The best films, books and shows focusing on representations of gay life in 2017

BY Matthew McLean |

Various venues, Turkey

BY Matthew McLean |

Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium

BY Matthew McLean |

The artists, curators and dealers proving that passion for historical art is far from a thing of the past

BY Matthew McLean |

Featured in Frieze Sculpture, and solo shows in London and Cliveden, the French artist talks about his career, Renoir, and sculpture in context

BY Matthew McLean AND Bernar Venet |