Daniel Birnbaum Interview: From the Traditional Museum to the World of VRfrieze.com - By Jennifer Higgie Jennifer Higgie What precipitated your recent move from director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm to artistic director of Acute Art in …
Armed and Dangerous: Juliet Jacques on Film and Fascism in Ukrainefrieze.com - By Juliet Jacques On 7 February, Ukrainian nationalists attacked a lecture at the Izolyatsia cultural platform in Kyiv. As sociologist Anna Hrytsenko was discussing …
New Prize Will Award Unprecedented USD$1M to Artists to Help Realize an Ambitious Projectfrieze.com - By Frieze News Desk The Nomura Art Award, funded by Japan-based financial services company Nomura Holdings, will offer US$1M to those working in the contemporary visual …
Libita Clayton’s Exhibition Feels Its Way Through the Darkness of Colonial, Capitalist and Personal Historiesfrieze.com - By Derica Shields Even before you enter the gallery space, ‘Quantum Ghost’ fills the senses: the smell of the exhibition seeps under Gasworks’ double doors. Beyond …
Seeing Daylight: A Celebration of the Photojournalist Dorothy Bohmfrieze.com - By Shelley Klein Re-reading Virginia Woolf’s ‘A Room of One’s Own’ (1929) this week, I was reminded of just how much the prevailing currents of the socio-political …
Juliet Jacques: When Our Neoliberal Order Explodes, Who Picks Up the Pieces?frieze.com - By Juliet Jacques Since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and the United States elected Donald Trump as president in 2016, ‘political’ art has …
Painter Cy Gavin’s Transhistorical Reckoningfrieze.com - By Shiv Kotecha For his first solo show at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Cy Gavin has painted a suite of five rapturous landscapes that channel the cries of condemned …
Unmasking Hollywood Horror’s Racial Stereotypesfrieze.com - By Nadia Latif Horror was my first cinematic love. As a child growing up in Sudan, dreaming of one day swapping playing with dollhouses for directing movies, my …
National Portrait Gallery Declines £1M Sackler Gift Following Anti-Opioid Criticismfrieze.com - By Frieze News Desk The National Portrait Gallery in London has declined a GBP£1 million grant from the Sackler family. The decision follows intense criticism over …
Okwui Enwezor and the Power of Art Publishingfrieze.com - By Osei Bonsu I first came into contact with Okwui Enwezor in 2014 when he asked me to write an essay for the catalogue of ‘All the World’s Futures’, the …
‘Change Became Constant’: The Many Styles of Pritzker Prize Winner Arata Isozakifrieze.com - By George Kafka Earlier this month, Arata Isozaki was awarded the 46th Pritzker Prize, known as the ‘Nobel prize of architecture’, the profession’s most prestigious …
Aesthetics and Prosthetics: Artist Eva Fàbregas’s Transhumanist Visionfrieze.com - By Louisa Elderton If you’ve ever watched Richard Fleischer’s science-fiction film Fantastic Voyage (1966), in which a submarine squad is microscopically shrunk and …
Inside Out: Harmony Hammond’s Queer Art of Bondagefrieze.com - By Evan Moffitt There are few artists more overdue for attention than Harmony Hammond, the pioneering lesbian feminist whose first US institutional survey opened …
The Many Sources of Inspiration in Magdalene Odundo’s ‘The Journey of Things’frieze.com - By Isabella Smith The question ‘What are your influences?’ may seem like a hackneyed journalistic opener – the most obvious starting point to understanding an artist’s …
The Spectres of Craig Baldwinfrieze.com - By Dan Fox Why Craig Baldwin’s contributions to cinema continue to be undervalued – at least outside of specialist film circles – is a mystery. It’s one as …
Okwui Enwezor: A Literary Appreciationfrieze.com - By Sean O'Toole It was as a curator that I met Okwui Enwezor, vicariously, through his startlingly plural selection of artists and works for the second Johannesburg …
Art Uncovering the Sexuality and Solitude of a Modern Mexican Iconfrieze.com - By Evan Moffitt Miguel Covarrubias and Rosa Rolanda were Zeligs of Mexican modernism: the husband and wife painter-choreographer pair crop up in almost all of the …
Do It Yourself! A New Film on the Life and Work of Donna Harawayfrieze.com - By Hestia Peppe For decades, Donna Haraway has pushed against assumptions about gender essentialism, colonialism and human exceptionalism on which the dominant …
Barbara Hammer, Pioneer of Experimental Lesbian Cinema, Dies Aged 79frieze.com - By Frieze News Desk Barbara Hammer, the American artist celebrated as a pioneer of lesbian experimental filmmaking – with a formidable career spanning several decades – …
How Curator Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) Changed the Course of Artfrieze.com - By Jörg Heiser Last time I was in touch with Okwui Enwezor, in January of this year, he wrote a message saying he was optimistic he would pull through. I’m still …
Look at Her: How Raphaela Vogel Moves Between Selfie-Feminism and Voyeurismfrieze.com - By Grace Sparapani The entrance to ‘Son of a Witch’, Raphaela Vogel’s first institutional solo show in Berlin, resembles a Chinese Moon Gate, albeit one constructed …
‘There Is No Excuse’: Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum in Discussions to Return Looted Colonial Artfrieze.com - By Frieze News Desk Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is in talks with representatives from Sri Lanka and Indonesia about returning ten objects to their place of origin, in a move …
Max Porter’s Book, ‘Lanny’, Evades Easy Categorizationfrieze.com - By Tom Overton ‘In an age of mass literacy’, Jeremy Noel-Tod writes in the introduction to The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem (2018), our daily lives are enmeshed in …
Carolee, She was a Great Painter: Remembering Carolee Schneemann (1939 – 2019)frieze.com - By Emma McCormick-Goodhart When I stepped off a Greyhound bus in New Paltz, New York, USA in December 2015, and into Carolee Schneemann’s car – for our first in-person meeting …
Rashid Johnson’s Directorial Debut, ‘Native Son’frieze.com - By Anna Martine Whitehead This spring, the visual artist Rashid Johnson will make his directorial debut with a film adaptation of Richard Wright’s 1940 classic novel Native …
Celebrated Curator Okwui Enwezor, Who Championed Global View of Art, Has Died Aged 55frieze.com - By Frieze News Desk The celebrated curator and critic Okwui Enwezor has passed away at the age of 55. Enwezor worked through his exhibitions to push for a more …
Artist Eric Mack’s Desert X Sculpture ‘Vandalized, Burned and Stolen’frieze.com - By Frieze News Desk Artist Erick Mack’s large-scale sculpture Halter (2019) installed at the outdoor biennial exhibition Desert X, set in California’s Coachella Valley, …
Artist Designs Escape Room to Expose Privilege and Inequality for Creative Time Commissionfrieze.com - By Frieze News Desk New York-based artist Risa Puno has been selected to create New York nonprofit Creative Time’s newest major public art project. Due to open this …
Late Capitalism and Identity Politicsfrieze.com - By Gabriella Pounds Picture this: the underground train halts and jolts you awake, you spill your iced coffee and you realize, with a fleeting gush of anxiety, that it’s …
A Meeting of Landscape and City: 6a’s Extended MK Gallery Opens in Milton Keynesfrieze.com - By George Kafka Designed and constructed through the late-1960s and 70s, Milton Keynes was a fully realized, modern interpretation of a garden city, an update on …
