Issue 170
April 2015

The April issue of frieze is out now, with features on Paulo Nazareth, Lucas Blalock and new directions in constructed photography, plus all our regular columns as well as a special expanded section of reviews from around the world.

Also featuring: Brian Sholis on relating bodily sensations to virtual spaces in the photographs of Lucas Blalock; Norwegian artist Ida Ekblad talks to Zoe Pilger about painting, drifting, emptiness and energy; Josephine New looks at Simon Ling’s east London plein-air paintings; and Jennifer Higgie encounters the bewildered mystics and mournful minstrels that populate the works of Ryan Mosley.

From this issue

Relating bodily sensations to virtual spaces in the photographs of Lucas Blalock

BY Brian Sholis | 19 MAR 15

Jennifer Higgie on the bewildered mystics, mournful minstrels and mysterious rituals of Ryan Mosley’s paintings

BY Jennifer Higgie | 19 MAR 15

Working for the man, or machine

BY Vivian Sky Rehberg | 19 MAR 15

Gideon Lewis-Kraus traces the transcontinental journeys of Brazilian artist Paolo Nazareth

BY Gideon Lewis-Kraus | 19 MAR 15

On collective memory and personal experience

BY Paul Teasdale | 18 MAR 15

The Glasgow School of Art — past and future

BY Mark Sadler | 18 MAR 15

Mining the traditions of the political cartoon

BY Shanay Jhaveri | 18 MAR 15

Why are there so few biographies of African artists?

BY Sean O'Toole | 18 MAR 15

W.A.G.E.’s fight for artist fees

BY Nicole Cohen AND Greig de Peuter | 18 MAR 15

PJ Harvey records a new album in public

BY Lucy O’Brien | 18 MAR 15

Meriç Algün Ringborg discusses the books that have influenced her

BY Meriç Algün Ringborg | 18 MAR 15

Re-reading Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex

BY Jenni Sorkin | 18 MAR 15

The shifting influence of Milan’s Salone del Mobile

BY Alice Rawsthorn | 18 MAR 15

Ida Ekblad talks to Zoe Pilger about painting, drifting, emptiness and energy

BY Zoe Pilger | 18 MAR 15

Containers, collaboration and perception

BY Matthew McLean | 18 MAR 15

How a generation of artists is re-ordering the building blocks of photography

BY Aaron Schuman | 18 MAR 15

The memory and lifespan of objects

BY Colin Perry | 16 MAR 15

Simon Ling and plein-air painting in east London

BY Josephine New | 16 MAR 15

Q: What images keep you company in the space where you work?

A: None. I just try to concentrate on what I am doing.

BY Daniel Buren | 16 MAR 15

New Museum, New York, USA

BY Dan Fox | 16 MAR 15

A recent retrospective showcased the artist’s unswerving ability to beat expectations

16 MAR 15

Glasgow Sculpture Studios, UK

BY Chris Sharratt | 12 MAR 15