By frieze The current issue of frieze examines the social life of art and the ways in which contemporary art influences the wider culture. In conjunction with this special issue, we asked critics and...
By Sukhdev Sandhu Active since the late 1970s, first as a ‘zine writer and punk musician, and later as an art theorist, novelist, filmmaker and editor of experimental fiction, Stuart Home has operate...
By Erik Morse The gastronomic world of Danish chef René Redzepi is encapsulated in the extensive menu of the so-called world’s best restaurant, noma, in Copenhagen, Denmark, as equal parts art and pr...
By Sean O’Toole Brett Murray, The Spear, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 185 x 140cm A brief sketch for a satirical play: it is a kind of Threepenny Opera, if you will. A sculptor – he is white, his p...
By Barbara Casavecchia Almost a year after the (still on-going) occupation of the Teatro Valle in Rome, on 5 May Milan bridged the gap with MACAO, which is what the Lavoratori dell’Arte (art workers)...
By Daniela Cascella Pauline Oliveros sits on stage in the Starr Auditorium at Tate Modern, exuding an air of serene consideration. She briefly looks around, while a charged silence builds up. She per...
By Douglas Fogle Amos Vogel (Source: thestickingplace.com) As I sat in Los Angeles’ Cinefamily theatre the other week watching The Turin Horse (2011), the Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr’s self-proclaimed...
By Erik Morse Morton Subotnick, 2012 (Photo: Steven Gunther. Courtesy: REDCAT) The New York-based musician and electronic composer, Morton Subotnick, is often referred to as the ‘godfather of techno,...
By Sam Thorne When Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach premiered in 1976, in Avignon then New York, it was rapturously received. David Byrne is said to have talked of nothing else ...
By Shama Khanna Preparations for the 8th West German Short Film Festival in Oberhausen (1962). Source: Kurzfilmtage This is the first in a two-part report from the 58th International Short Film Festi...
By Jörg Heiser David Weiss, who together with Peter Fischli formed the Swiss artist duo that for more than three decades walked the line between irony and sincerity, physical comedy and conceptual ri...
By Jörg Heiser David Weiss, whom together with Peter Fischli formed the Swiss artist duo that for more than three decades continually walked the line between irony and sincerity, physical comedy and ...
By Christy Lange The Press Conference of the 7th Berlin Biennale, 25 April 2012 I’m still trying to find the right words to describe the mood surrounding the run-up to this year’s 7th Berlin Biennale...
By Luisa Grigoletto As recession-hit Italy tries to fight its way out of the euro crisis, contemporary art is paying a heavy price. Rome’s MAXXI, the National Museum of Contemporary Art and Architect...
By Omar Kholeif Larissa Sansour, The Nation Estate (production still, 2012) It has been some months now since the 20th of December 2011, when Larissa Sansour sent out a press release with the subject...
By Omar Kholeif Larissa Sansour, The Nation Estate (production still, 2012) It has been some months now since the 20th of December 2011, the date that Larissa Sansour sent out a press release with th...
By Dan Fox Kraftwerk performing at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. (PHOTO + WORLDWIDE 2012 © by Peter Boettcher) It had seemed that nobody, no matter how hard they prayed to the Gods of Krautrock...
By Daniel Horn Richard Kern, Fingered (1986), film still, courtesy Richard Kern ‘You Killed Me First: The Cinema of Transgression’ at the Kunst-Werke in Berlin, is a first-time museum presentation de...
By Ronald Jones Asli Cavusoglu in collaboration with The Hand of God Church and its Voice of Melody Gospel Choir, 2012, performative lecture at Going Public. Photo: Roke Gezuraga Spunky if nothing el...
By Robert Barry Nuit des Bains, 2012, Geneva, Switzerland. photo: Olivier Vogelsang By eight pm, the halls of every gallery were thronged with people clutching plastic cups and A4 sheets listing the ...
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