Issue 136: Looking Back – Looking Forward

FRIEZE MAGAZINE | FRIEZE ART FAIR | FRIEZE ONLINE Having trouble viewing this email? View it in your browser. Frieze Magazine Issue 136: Out Now As 2010 ends, frieze looks back at the highlights of 2010 and looks forward to what’s in store for 2011. Our annual survey gives the opportunity to catch up on any of 2010’s high points that you might have missed; according to Ryan Gander, ‘Amongst all the biennial, survey shows, prize and art fair projects of the last year, the things I enjoyed the most are the ones that hardly anybody else saw.’ Whilst for Laura Hoptman, 2010 saw ‘the re-valuation of less-known work by well-known artists, as well as well known work by unknown artists.’ Christopher Bedford, Natasha Conland, Brian Dillon, Elena Filipovic, Malik Gaines, Ann Gallagher, Ryan Gander, Laura Hoptman, Sunjung Kim, Lars Bang Larsen, Jochen Volz and Michał Woliński all reflect on the past year and tell us what their picks are for 2011. Plus, we round up the best film, architecture, design, books and music of 2010. Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith and Ned Beauman visit Nottingham for the British Art Show 7; whilst Christy Lange considers the role of photography in the 8th Gwangju Biennale. On the publication of Roland Barthes’ last book, The Preparation of the Novel, Sylvère Lotringer considers the intimacy, subjectivity and fragmentation of Barthes’ late writing. Plus, Dan Fox revisits Amos Vogel’s 1966 essay ‘Thirteen Confusions’ and retools it for contemporary art; Owen Hatherley analyses the terrifying, sublime iconography of the oil industry and Saul Anton makes the connections between the legacy of Guy Debord, social networking and modern terrorism. This issue’s City Report goes to Mexico City, where Gabriela Jauregui and Jace Clayton find that nothing stands still in one of the largest metropolises in the Americas, from new museums and project spaces to pop-up music events. In our regular columns Robert Storr discusses religion and eroticism in the work of Paul Thek, Sean O’Toole asks what a skatepark in Uganda symbolizes about African urbanism and Jennifer Allen reports on Berlin’s search for a Kunsthalle. On the back page, writer and film director John Waters answers the frieze ‘Questionnaire’. Reviews include: 29th Sao Paulo Biennial, Paul Thek at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Klara Lidén at the Serpentine Gallery, London; Manifesta 8; John Stezaker at Capitain Petzel, Berlin; A Place Out of History at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City and ANTI Festival, Finland.     Frieze Subscribe Now! Save up to 40% and gain complete access to www.frieze.com Front cover photograph: Adam Laycock Above: Christian Marclay, The Clock (2010); courtesy: White Cube, London and the artist   Frieze Art Fair Gallery Applications for 2011 Now Open Frieze Art Fair is open to galleries who show an international programme of artists and present a minimum of four shows per year. Any gallery who applies must be a commercial venture. Applicants to Frame, a section dedicated to solo artist presentations, must have opened their gallery between 2005 and 2010, presenting a regular programme of exhibitions. Special advisors for the section will be curators Cecilia Alemani and Rodrigo Moura. Further information and the online application form for both Frieze Art Fair and Frame are available on applications.friezeartfair.com Application Deadline: 1 February 2011, Frieze Art Fair 2011 will take place in Regent's Park, London, 13–16 October. For further details please contact applications@frieze.com     Frieze Art Fair Order the Yearbook Now! This insider's guide features over 300 emerging and established artists worldwide. Including details of all galleries that participated in Frieze Art Fair and an index listing over 3,000 artists. Order now to receive your copy. Frieze.com Exclusively Online On the Editors’ Blog: Dan Fox reports on The Andy Warhol Foundation’s threat to withdraw funding from the Smithsonian Institution unless it reinstates its display of David Wojnarowicz’ 1987 video A Fire in My Belly. What do you think about the Smithsonian’s actions? Read more and comment now Plus, video and audio from issue 136 including: Peter Saville on his design for the England football kit; interviews with Harmory Korine, Clio Barnard and Zaha Hadid; and an exclusive playlist curated especially for frieze by Eric Namour of el nico experimental, available to download here. Follow frieze on twitter or become a fan on facebook.       Frieze 81 Rivington Street London EC2A 3AY   Main line: 020 3372 6111 Fax: 020 3178 7042 www.frieze.com   To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please click here.