Features & Interviews

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Features / How Do You Care for Artificially Sentient Art?

B. Fino-Radin on what it means to keep projects like Ian Cheng’s BOB (2018–19) alive

BY B. Fino-Radin | 15 NOV 22

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Opinion / How Tominaga Nakamoto’s Philosophy Inspired the Rumoured Bitcoin Inventor

Paul Chan selects passages from the philosopher whose work may have influenced the creation of the biggest cryptocurrency

BY Paul Chan AND Yuzo Sakuramoto | 29 NOV 22

Interviews

Interviews / Xaviera Simmons and Michael Rakowitz on What It Really Means to Be in Community

The two artists discuss Simmons’s latest exhibition at the Queens Museum, ‘Crisis Makes a Book Club’ and how art can be catalyst for sustainable change

BY Xaviera Simmons AND Michael Rakowitz | 24 NOV 22

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Features / Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s Living Archive

Skye Arundhati Thomas profiles the young artist and takes a trip through her many immersive game-worlds that celebrate Black trans life

BY Skye Arundhati Thomas | 22 NOV 22

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Interviews / Klaus Biesenbach on Museums in an Age of Crisis

The director of Neue Nationalgalerie speaks to frieze editor-in-chief Andrew Durbin about Just Stop Oil, Ukraine, and the future of Berlin

BY Andrew Durbin | 17 NOV 22

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Interviews / Video Games, Cosmology, Kabbalah: Suzanne Treister’s Inspirations

The prophetic new media artist speaks with Lars Bang Larsen about her practice and collaboration with CERN

BY Suzanne Treister AND Lars Bang Larsen | 02 NOV 22

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Interviews / The Power of Printed Matter: An Interview with Michaela Unterdörfer

Following a recent collaboration with Printed Matter and Darling Green, the director of Hauser & Wirth Publishers speaks with Vanessa Peterson about the importance of artists' publishing

BY Vanessa Peterson AND Michaela Unterdörfer | 02 NOV 22

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Interviews / ‘Each Film Invents a New Language’: An Interview with John Smith

Juliet Jacques speaks to the artist – currently the subject of ‘Introspective’, a 50-film survey at London’s ICA and Close-Up Film Centre – about humour and simplicity

BY Juliet Jacques | 02 NOV 22

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Interviews / Misremembering Iran with Malekeh Nayiny

Meridian Payseno talks with artist Malekeh Nayiny about how her whimsical reworkings of old family photographs uncover truths in imagined memories

BY Meridian Payseno | 01 NOV 22

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Roundtables / What Will Manifesta 14 Bring to the Balkans?

Five curators and artists consider what the arrival of the nomadic biennial could offer the region

BY Dardan Zhegrova, Adela Demetja, Šejla Kamerić, Branislav Dimitrijević AND Viktoria Draganova | 19 JUL 22

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Features / La Noche Del Cisne: Mexico City's Secret Cabaret

Artists Pia Camil, PJ Rountree and a host of collaborators look back on the storied cabaret night

BY Alejandra Acosta Chávez, Pia Camil, Don Charles, Brenda Munguía, Luis Pablo Osorio, Alberto Perera, Kristin Reger, PJ Rountree, Susana Vargas Cervantes AND Terence Trouillot | 03 MAY 22

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Features / What’s Next for Berlin’s Museums?

After a series of new appointments for Berlin’s museums, Carina Bukuts discusses the future of the city’s institutional landscape with Anselm Franke, María Inés Plaza Lazo, Fabian Schöneich and Sung Tieu

BY Carina Bukuts, Anselm Franke, Fabian Schöneich, María Inés Plaza Lazo AND Sung Tieu | 23 FEB 22

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Profiles / Master of Disguise: Ginny On Frederick

Sam Moore profiles the shape-shifting gallery space in London that has become an imaginarium for ambitious early-career artists

BY Sam Moore | 17 OCT 22

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Profiles / The Soft Power of Ronan McKenzie’s HOME

The gallerist’s intimate exhibition space in London is a refuge for underserved creative communities

BY Charlotte Jansen | 17 OCT 22

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Profiles / Queercircle Establishes a Space for London’s LGBTQ+ Artists

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

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Profiles / It Takes Guts to Challenge Art-World Elitism

Guts Gallery founder Ellie Pennick employs an equitable business model to empower the next generation of artists

BY Philomena Epps | 17 OCT 22

Opinion

Opinion / Anti-Artist: Celebrating Brian Catling (1948–2022)

Aaron Williamson reflects on the life of his late friend and collaborator, an artworld outlier whose instinct was to deny official channels

BY Aaron Williamson | 05 OCT 22

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Features / Kate Bush Calls the Dreamers to Wake

Brian Dillon on the 40th anniversary of the singer’s lesser-known record, The Dreaming

BY Brian Dillon | 28 SEP 22

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One Takes / Belkis Ayón’s Feminist Ritual Practice

On occasion of the artist’s posthumous retrospective at Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Aldeide Delgado unpacks the symbolism of La sentencia (1993)

BY Aldeide Delgado | 26 OCT 22

Opinion

Opinion / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Playful Poetics

Lindsay Choi looks at two works by the artist that invite her audience to mutual exchange

BY Lindsay Choi | 24 OCT 22

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Features / Art’s Rag-Doll Women

Camilla Grudova revisits the mythical and real women of painting who influenced her fiction – and adulthood

BY Camilla Grudova | 31 OCT 22

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Features / Garrett Bradley’s Cinema Takes a Leap of Faith

The Oscar-nominated filmmaker discusses how she imbues topics relating to race, class and social justice with poetic urgency

BY Allie Biswas | 28 SEP 22

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Frieze Los Angeles / Betye Saar: Visualizing the Energy of Los Angeles

The iconic artist on infusing her work with the mystical and recreating her mural LA Energy from 1983

20 FEB 22

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Frieze Los Angeles / Catherine Opie: Capturing a Fractured American Identity

The renowned photographer at Frieze Los Angeles 2022 on the politics of representation, coinciding with her inclusion in Black American Portraits at LACMA

19 FEB 22