Issue 83
May 2004

In the May issue frieze quiz Dan Cameron, Dan Fox, Jennifer Higgie, Matthew Higgs, Katy Siegel, Roberta Smith and Neville Wakefield about the 2004 Whitney Biennial.

Alex Farquharson explores Cameron Jamie’s fascination with wrestling, the Los Angeles valley suburbs of his childhood and Old and New World rituals from Halloween to the ancient Austrian custom of Kranky Klaus.

Also featured: Kate Bush on Gabriel Kuri, Dan Fox on Luke Fowler, Tom Morton on Xavier Veilhan, Brian Dillon on Emma Kay and James Trainor on the performances of William Pope.L. 

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'A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-68' at MoCA, Los Angeles

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East Africa Art Biennale
BY Jerome Boyd-Maunsell |
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X-Screen: Film Installation and Actions of the '60s and '70s
BY Mark Webber |
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Kaye Donachie
BY Peter Suchin |
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Be Afraid
BY Tirdad Zolghadr |
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John Salt
BY Morgan Falconer |
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Paul Schutze
BY Brian Dillon |
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Jane South
BY Michael Wilson |
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Robert Mapplethorpe: Pictures Pictures
BY Jenni Sorkin |
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I, Assassin
BY Michael Wilson |
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Jon Pylypchuk
BY Tom Morton |
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Brian Jungen
BY Charles LaBelle |
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That bodies speak has been known for a long time
BY Nicole Scheyerer |
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Loretta Lux
BY Kristin M. Jones |
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Surasi Kusolwong
BY Polly Staple |
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Phillip Allen
BY Marcus Verhagen |
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Edgar Arceneaux/Rodney McMillian
BY Julien Myers |
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Gail Pickering
BY Tom Morton |
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Jan De Cock
BY Amanda Coulson |
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The Uncanny
BY Alex Farquharson |
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Sean Landers
BY Sean Landers |
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The Snow Show
BY Rob Young |
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Remembrance of things past

Emma Kay

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Only Connect

Gabriel Kuri

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Back to Reality

Xavier Veilhan's Le Projet Hyperrealiste

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The mind's eye

Luke Fowler

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Ain't no such thing as Superman

William Pope L

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The Darkness

Cameron Jamie
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American Pie

The 2004 Whitney Biennial, a survey of contemporary art made in the US, opened in March at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. It was curated by Chrissie Illes, Shamim M. Momin and Debra Singer. frieze asked seven critics and curators to repsond to a few questions

Interviews
Show and tell

An interview with Jens Hoffmann about his recent appointment as Director of Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London

Frieze
Northern Exposure

Considering recent museum developments in the light of Stockholm's reopened Moderna Museet

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Art Brute

Terry Painter l'artiste, the latest satirical take on the creative life

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After the Fact

The vices and virtues of literary reportage

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Exhibition Programme

The current touring exhibition 'Ready to Shoot', documents Gerry Schum's experimental fusion of art and television

BY Catrin Lorch |
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Future Systems

Almanacs worry the FBI, fascinate Dave Eggers and help farmers

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In the Realm of the Senses

Revisiting the work of author, artist and translator Pierre Klossowski

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Last Days of Disco

Arthur Russell

BY Steven Stern |
One Takes
Picture Piece: Jacob and the Angel

The curious history of Jacob Epstein's famous sculpture