Issue 122
April 2009

Sam Thorne explores the influences of home, travel, translation and transience in the work of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander.

Diedrich Diederichsen questions how the Internet has affected definitions of a contemporary culture industry and finds that the imaginary architecture in a 15th-century book may provide the answer.

Sean O’Toole considers how Amar Kanwar‘s multilayered films and installations prompt ‘revelations of different kinds, for different individuals.’

Julian Myers grapples with the work of an artist who relishes multiple viewpoints, myriad materials and a slippery approach to meaning, to ask who is Sterling Ruby?

City Report: Tel Aviv features Israel’s second largest city, which is known as ‘the bubble’ for its air of detachment from political turmoil, its cosmopolitanism, hedonism and vibrant art scene.

From this issue

The world of difference between writing a blog and an article for print publication

BY Christy Lange |

Negative Art defines itself negatively. It can only be described by a catalog of what it is not

BY Olav Westphalen |

The scandalous closure of Brandeis University’s famed Rose Art Museum

BY Robert Storr |

A new exhibition about New York’s underground earth works reveals a quasi-mythological mirror image of the city

BY George Pendle |

Might the art world’s discretion on economic matters amount to a denial?

BY Jennifer Allen |

Born just over a century ago, eden ahbez – the original hippy or ‘Nature Boy’ – was the most eccentric and successful songwriter you’ve never heard of

BY Jonty Claypole |

Many controversial buildings currently await an uncertain fate, raising the issue of aesthetic success versus social function

BY Joe Scanlan |

In an ongoing series, frieze asks an artist, curator or writer to list the books that have influenced them

Iain Sinclair (Hamish Hamilton, 2009)

BY Dan Fox |

Alain Badiou (Verso, London, 2009)

BY Mark Fisher |

eds. Hilar Stadler and Martino Stierli (Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich, 2009)

BY Sam Jacob |

Belbury Poly (Ghost Box, 2009)

BY Sam Thorne |

Various artists (Tempa, 2009)

BY Mark Fisher |

Telepathe (V2/Cooperative, 2009)

BY Daniel Trilling |

Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander creates works influenced by ideas of home, travel, translation and transience

BY Sam Thorne |

Amar Kanwar’s multilayered films and installations prompt ‘revelations, of different kinds, for different individuals’

BY Sean O'Toole |

How has the Internet affected new definitions of a contemporary culture industry? The imaginary architecture in a 15th-century book may provide the answer

BY Diedrich Diederichsen |

Soap operas, identity politics and sentimental songs; humour, hysteria and sincerity

BY Steven Stern |

Posters, leaves and photographs, drawing, detachment and intimacy

BY Chris Fite-Wassilak |

Embarrassment and abnormality; rearranged faces and rotating horizons

BY Nicola Harvey |

Known as ‘the bubble’ for its air of detachment from political turmoil, its hedonism, cosmopolitanism and vibrant art scene

BY Nuit Banai, Eyal Danon |

Grappling with the work of an artist who relishes multiple viewpoints, myriad materials and a slippery approach to meaning

BY Julian Myers |

What is your favourite title of an art work? I can’t think of a good one

Tate Britain, London, UK

BY Jörg Heiser |

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

BY Ara H. Merjian |

Villa Oppenheim, Berlin, Germany

BY Mark Godfrey |

Greene Naftali, New York, USA

BY Graham T. Beck |

carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany

BY Christy Lange |

LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijon, Spain

BY Melissa Gronlund |

Matt's Gallery, London, UK

BY Chris Fite-Wassilak |

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

BY Anne Wehr |

Various venues, Daegu, South Korea

BY Brian Dillon |

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

BY Jörg Heiser |

Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

BY Felicity Lunn |

Various venues, Cali, Colombia

BY Jens Hoffmann |

Studio Voltaire, London, UK

BY Colin Perry |

CCS Bard Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA

BY Benjamin Carlson |

ms2, Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland

BY Goska Charylo |

Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil

BY Fabio Cypriano |

Moot, Nottingham, UK

BY Sam Thorne |

Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, USA

BY Katie Sonnenborn |

Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy

BY Sonia Campagnola |

Taylor de Cordoba, Los Angeles, USA

BY Christy Lange |

Tramway, Glasgow, UK

BY Sarah Lowndes |

Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK

BY Dan Fox |