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Sean Burns

Sean Burns is an artist, writer and frieze assistant editor based in London, UK. 

Other highlights include a collection of poetry and ephemera by US writer John Wieners and a beautiful monograph of the Scottish painter Carole Gibbons

BY Sean Burns | 26 MAY 23

Other highlights include Plaster, a quarterly poster magazine dedicated to contemporary artists, and a new stage adaption of Derek Jarman’s Blue 

BY Sean Burns | 06 APR 23

The artist discusses his first survey, at Hayward Gallery, London, which ambitiously reconfigures his acclaimed spaces and sculptures

BY Sean Burns | 27 FEB 23

Michael Costiff, John Foley, Pam Hogg and Princess Julia pay tribute to the pioneering fashion designer and activist

Sean Burns speaks to the artist about the current protests in her home country and how the art world can better act in solidarity with the insurgents

BY Shirin Neshat AND Sean Burns | 23 DEC 22

From Howardena Pindell’s harrowing retrospective at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, to Garrett Bradley’s moving debut at Lisson Gallery, London

BY Sean Burns | 19 DEC 22

Other highlights include James St James’s Night Fever podcast, plus new and upcoming book releases from Rosanna McLaughlin and McKenzie Wark

BY Sean Burns | 25 NOV 22

Sean Burns visits a nascent gallery that is fast becoming a champion of intersectional voices from across the capital

BY Sean Burns | 17 OCT 22

Angel Lambo speaks to frieze Assistant Editor Sean Burns about his documentary film profiling the community and architecture of two legendary residential blocks

BY Angel Lambo AND Sean Burns | 14 SEP 22

Mariama Attah, Anna Frances Douglas and Jeremy Millar revisit John Berger’s famed television series and book

As ‘Fugues in Colour’ opens at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, the painter speaks to Sean Burns about Michelangelo’s influence and how murals can upend the commodification of painting

BY Sean Burns | 20 MAY 22

Marlene Dumas triumphs at Palazzo Grassi and Pauline Curnier Jardin upends the Biennale’s exclusivity

BY Sean Burns | 22 APR 22

From neo-surrealist painting to coarse conceptualism, three frieze editors discuss the year in art

These are the best exhibitions of the year – from a chronically overdue retrospective of Paula Rego to a debut offering of obfuscated, sexualised sculpture by Jack O’Brien

BY Sean Burns | 15 DEC 21

What role did the institution play in photography’s ascent?

BY Sean Burns | 15 DEC 21

The best exhibitions on view during the fair – from Doron Langberg’s splashy gay paintings at Victoria Miro to Theaster Gates’s homage to clay at Whitechapel Gallery

BY Sean Burns | 14 OCT 21

Is contemporary art a reaction to social, political and local specificities or is it active in creating new utopic, progressive impulses? The BAS9 aspires to ask both

BY Sean Burns | 12 JUL 21

Carlos Anguera Jover, Alisa Petrosova and Leyla Yenirce chat with Sean Burns about home studios, slowing down and the end of institutional power

In the first of a series of events partnered with MUBI, the artist discusses love, empathy and sexuality in Glazer’s 2013 masterpiece

BY Sean Burns | 04 JUN 21

The artist speaks to Sean Burns about her polarising public sculptures and capturing the spirit of her subjects

BY Sean Burns AND Maggi Hambling | 12 MAR 21