Fashion Week Should Fashion Week Be Cancelled?frieze.com - By Kadish Morris Conversations about sustainability bookend every fashion week. This year, environmental activists Extinction Rebellion are calling for the biannual …
Art ‘The Curator’s Choice’? Wheelchair User Calls Out Olafur Eliasson’s Tate Modern Show For Lack of Accessibilityfrieze.com - By Frieze News Desk A visitor to Olafur Eliasson’s exhibition at London’s Tate Modern has sparked a debate over a lack of accessibility in art galleries. Ciara O’Connor, …
Art Will the Real Tom Wesselmann Please Stand Up?frieze.com - By Olivia Rodrigues Who is Slim Stealingworth? He wrote an 80-page essay for a Tom Wesselmann monograph in 1980. He also penned various catalogue essays for Wesselmann …
Painting Monster Trucks, Marni and PetChatz: Inside the Mind of Jamian Juliano-Villanifrieze.com - By Ryan Chapman ‘Let’s Kill Nicole’, Jamian Juliano-Villani’s current show at Massimo De Carlo in London comprises one sculpture and 12 paintings, one of which, …
Art The Uncanny Geometry of Satoshi Kojimafrieze.com - By Mary Huber On the hottest day of the year so far, I found myself in the cool, still air of Satoshi Kojima’s latest exhibition, ‘Chaste as Ice, Pure as Snow’, at …
Art On Human Dignity in Public Spacesfrieze.com - By Lizzy De Vita We remove our shoes, perhaps, when we stand on sacred ground. It is a sign of respect, of humbling oneself before a higher power. We submit. Unto You. …
Art Olga Jevrić’s Pioneering Experiments in Abstraction are Shown in London for the First Timefrieze.com - By Louisa Elderton It is a truism that some artists, many of them women, really should be better known. The Belgrade-born modernist sculptor Olga Jevrić, who died in …
Art Bow Down: On the Beyoncé Portrait Acquired by Smithsonian National Portrait Galleryfrieze.com - By Kadish Morris A portrait of Beyoncé has been acquired by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. In the picture, the singer – wearing a sequined Valentino dress …
Art John Keene Remembers Toni Morrison’s ‘Brilliance, Breadth, Acuity, Nuance, Grace and Force’frieze.com - By John Keene ‘Word-work is sublime,’ Toni Morrison said in her 1993 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, ‘ ... because it is generative.’ Though she was speaking about …
Art Partygoers Wear Blackface at Belgium’s Africa Museumfrieze.com - By Frieze News Desk Belgium’s Africa Museum is under fire after a party was held on its grounds, in which guests wore blackface and donned pith helmets. The open-air …
Art Quentin Tarantino Can’t Save Hollywoodfrieze.com - By Giampaolo Bianconi The most compelling historical characters are the ones who embody the promise of their era; their successes are the successes of a generation. But …
Art I Learned Enormous Things: Hans Ulrich Obrist Remembers Marisa Merz (1931-2019)frieze.com - By Hans Ulrich Obrist I first met Marisa Merz in 1986, when I was 18 years old; I was travelling through Europe on the night train in order to make studio visits during …
Art What Now for Hong Kong (And for Us)?frieze.com - By David Markus For months, residents of Hong Kong have flooded the streets in a series of protests sparked by a proposed extradition policy that threatens to erode …
Art Editors’ Picks: Our Favourite Art World Holiday Destinationsfrieze.com - By frieze Salvatore Emblema, who died in 2006, was an Italian artist who worked with organic matter: jute fibres, volcanic soil or pigment on leaves. His …
Art An Afrofuturism Show With No Black Artists: What Went Wrong at Berlin’s Künstlerhaus Bethanien?frieze.com - By Will Furtado In 2015, the exhibition ‘Wir Sind Alle Berliner: 1884–2014’ at SAVVY reflected on the repercussions of the 1884 Berlin Conference, in which European …
Photographers John Armleder and Christian Marclay on the Art of Disruptionfrieze.com - By Evan Moffitt, John Armleder and Christian Marclay CM: We met in Geneva where John had a space called Ecart that I used to frequent as a student at the École des Beaux Arts [now the École supérieure …
Art The Post-Colonial Theorists Who Changed Contemporary Artfrieze.com - By Alpesh Kantilal Patel Cuban ethnographer Lydia Cabrera is known for her transnational, non-hierarchical and relational approach to the study of Afro-Cuban mythology. This …
Art The Risk of Rejection: Two New Books by Kate Zambrenofrieze.com - By Diana Hamilton Reading Screen Tests (2019), Kate Zambreno’s new collection of stories and essays, I was at first annoyed. Which is to say I felt implicated: as a …
Toni Morrison Toni Morrison, Chronicler of the African American Experience, Dies At 88frieze.com - By Frieze News Desk Beloved author and Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88. Her family confirmed ‘with profound sadness’ that Morrison had …
Art How to Visualize Time?frieze.com - By Barbara Casavecchia During the opening days of the Venice Biennale, the Riva delle Zattere where the V-A-C Foundation can be found, was taken over by ‘The New Circus …
Art Can Eco-Tourism Save the Art World?frieze.com - By Vanessa Thill A large beetle drops from the ceiling and lands on the reception desk with a thump. This is not an unusual occurrence at SFER IK, a gallery in Tulum, …
Art What did Ed Ruscha Learn from Eilshemius?frieze.com - By Harry Thorne The front of Louis Michel Eilshemius’s business card identified him as an ‘amateur all round doctor, mesmerist-prophet and mystic reader of hands and …
Frank Lloyd Wright In Pictures: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Mathematical Textilesfrieze.com - By Kadish Morris Can architects design wallpaper as arresting as their building facades? In 1955, celebrated architect Frank Lloyd Wright, whose buildings received …
Art New York’s Museums are Failing on Diversity, Study Findsfrieze.com - By Frieze News Desk The staff at New York cultural organizations are not reflective of the demographics of the city, a new report has found. Two thirds of the cultural …
Teargas Why Was New York So Afraid of Allan Sekula?frieze.com - By Jack McGrath Down the hall from artworks about labour conditions at the US–Mexico border, a slide projection shows police launching tear-gas cannisters at an …
Art Pop Culture Is the Great Educator: An Interview with Peter Savillefrieze.com - By Sean Burns As Factory Records’ co-founder and art director from 1978–93, Peter Saville produced enigmatic artworks that repurposed images from industrial and …
Artists Egon Schiele Sketch Discovered in Thrift Storefrieze.com - By Frieze News Desk A part-time art dealer has found an Egon Schiele drawing in a charity shop in Queens, New York, which has been valued between USD$100,000 and …
LGBTQI ‘Learning How to Be Queer Again’: Remembering Douglas Crimp (1944–2019)frieze.com - By Thomas J. Lax Less than a dozen pages into Douglas Crimp’s coming-of-age memoir Before Pictures (2016), the art historian recounts the split he experienced when he …
Detroit, MI What Role Can Art Play in a Changing Detroit?frieze.com - By Travis Diehl Tyree Guyton has been filling his neighbourhood’s fallow lots with sculptures since the 1980s. Today, infusing a long four blocks, the iconic …
Art Afrofuturism Exhibition in Berlin Under Fire for Not Showing Black Artistsfrieze.com - By Frieze News Desk A Berlin art gallery has been criticized for mounting an exhibition inspired by Afrofuturism, while at the same time failing to show any black …
