Issue 152
Jan - Feb 2013

Michael Famighetti considers the changing American landscape in the artist’s work; Cuban-American painter Carmen Herrera talks to British artist David Batchelor about her 80 years of making art and Eli Sudbrack writes about the people, places and artists that have influenced his collaborative multimedia practice.

From this issue

On the occasion of a major touring retrospective that marks four decades of the artist’s work, Michael Famighetti considers the changing American landscape in the photographs of Robert Adams

BY Michael Famighetti | 01 JAN 13

Shepherds and colonialism, appropriation and the Romantic tradition

BY Amy Sherlock | 01 JAN 13

The Los Angeles-based filmmaker discusses cities, soundtracks and landscapes

01 JAN 13

Eli Sudbrack of assume vivid astro focus writes about the people, places and artists that have influences his collaborative multimedia practice

BY Eli Sudbrack | 01 JAN 13

British artist David Batchelor talks to Cuban-American painter Carmen Herrera about her 80 years of making art

01 JAN 13

How Paul Elliman responds to the spaces, objects, words and sounds that surround him

BY Jennifer Kabat | 01 JAN 13

Conflict, communion and making human presence resonate in the landscape

BY Silas Martí | 01 JAN 13

Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi and Mark Fisher discuss exhaustion, the financial crisis, aesthetic resistance and the ‘slow cancellation of the future’

What can art teach us about happiness?

BY Jonathan Griffin | 01 JAN 13

New Year Quiz

BY Tom Morton | 01 JAN 13

On limousines, road trips and mobility

BY Jennifer Allen | 01 JAN 13

On working as an artist in Beirut today

BY Kaelen Wilson-Goldie | 01 JAN 13

Trevor Paglen and the final frontier

BY George Pendle | 01 JAN 13

Taking part in Tino Sehgal’s These associations

BY Agnieszka Gratza | 01 JAN 13

How Occupy influenced New York’s art scene

BY Tirdad Zolghadr | 01 JAN 13

Three new publications about globalization and contemporary curating

BY Sam Thorne | 01 JAN 13

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

BY Andrea Büttner | 01 JAN 13

The chess-playing automaton that defeated Napoleon

BY Jason Farago | 01 JAN 13

Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK

BY Chris Sharratt | 01 JAN 13

The paintings, drawings and animations of Tala Madani

BY Aram Moshayedi | 01 JAN 13

Meaning, memory and mockery

BY Jan Verwoert | 01 JAN 13

Q. What should stay the same? A. Clean air, clean earth, clean water.

BY Jonas Mekas | 01 JAN 13

Eli Sudbrack of assume vivid astro focus writes about the people, places and artists that have influences his collaborative multimedia practice

BY Eli Sudbrack | 11 DEC 12

The French composer's purpose was to find a breach in the fortress of musical tradition, open up ‘fissures of randomness for the poetic adventure to slip through’

BY Rob Young | 01 JAN 12