Frieze magazine

Shane de Lange’s weekly analysis of media design — both past and present, print and online — from South Africa and around the world.

Out Now. Frieze Issue noº 162.

‘Destroy all critics’ – Dan Fox on Mike Kelley In the January/February issue of frieze, Dan Fox examines Mike Kelley’s influential writings on the 10th anniversary of the artist’s death. And Amy Sherlock profiles the sculptor Magali Reus, whose solo show at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, USA, opens this spring.

‘The more the activist agitates within [familiar cultural defaults], the more the noose tightens.’ – Keller Easterling

Simone Fattal talks to Negar Azimi about her archaeological and formal explorations in collage, paint and sculpture; Pablo Larios investigates how the Bauhaus is being decentred from the Western canon; Cal Revely-Calder pens a picture piece on Samuel Beckett’s Gucci bag; and Hannah Black, Howie Chen, Jamillah James, Ajay Kurian and Suhail Malik share their sobering glimpses into how the project of artistic freedom has been co-opted by the far right.

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‘I somehow have this sense of history – of the now being history.’ – Wolfgang Tillmans

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As 'Life Between Islands' opens at Tate Britain, two painters reflect on the importance of place to their work

In the October issue of frieze, Benjamin Weissman presents an homage to, meditation on, conversation with and analysis of the 50-year career of John Baldessari. Also, the artist Barbara Bloom responds to the work of Baldessari – her friend and former teacher. Plus: Jennifer Bornstein, Tacita Dean, Lara Favaretto, Dan Fox on pretentiousness, the Polyphonic Voices of Georgia, Fritz Haeg, Tehching Hsieh, Michelangelo and Paulina Olowska. Also featuring: novelist A.M. Homes‘ short story inspired…