Frieze

Frieze is a contemporary art magazine, published eight times a year. It was founded in London in 1991 and is renowned for publishing essays, profiles, interviews and reviews by today’s leading writers, artists and curators. Across all platforms and live events frieze elevates the provocative, brilliant and leading voices who shape and challenge today’s art world.

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TO DO • Fifty years after its premiere, Robert Wilson offers readers a map for restaging a 1970s opera themselves

Is She in There? • One Take: On the occasion of Lutz Bacher’s solo show at Raven Row, Matthew McLean takes a close look at her portrait of Princess Diana

Taking Account • Re-evaluations: How do we read Catherine Millet in the age of #MeToo and autofiction?

The Apostle • Re-evaluations: Is Jeff Koons America’s most religious artist?

Beautiful Experiments • Re-evaluations: How Madame Satã predated contemporary discussions on gender performativity, racial violence and identity politics

Sore Feeling • Re-evaluations: How The Dreamers reveals the disappointments of a generation

Where Are You Now? • Re-evaluations: Post-internet art wasn’t just cool; it was the product of a seismic shift

Features

Ali Cherri • Profile: Wilson Tarbox visits the winner of the Silver Lion at last year’s Venice Biennale and considers the role of the artist in a time of political crisis

‘Sound has the power to not only transcend lines of control, but to act as a vehicle to reimagine our struggles.’ • Conversation: As her first US solo museum exhibition opens at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Hajra Waheed speaks with curator Wassan Al-Khudhairi about how sound and music can be vehicles of resistance against a backdrop of marginalization and political instability

THE FACE OF THE DEEP • Roundtable: As generative AI and large language models such as ChatGPT storm our creative industries, Ben Davis, Stephanie Dinkins, Mike Pepi, Noam Segal and Christopher Kulendran Thomas delve into a philosophical and political debate on the viability of machine artistry

Romance Dawn • Essay: Simon Wu reflects on Asian American media in 2023 and the ideals of friendship

Trance States • On the 50th anniversary of Robert Wilson’s groundbreaking opera The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin, former filmmaker and dancer Robyn Brentano reflects on her long friendship and collaboration with the American theatre director

On View • International listings of galleries for November / December 2023 – For more information, visit frieze.com/on–view/galleries

Asia Pacific

Europe

Americas

Reviews

Mónica Millán • W-galería, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ato Ribeiro • Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, USA

Pedro Reyes • Lisson Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Sarah Miska • Night Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Fiona Connor • Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, USA

Florian Krewer • Aspen Art Museum, USA

Daniel Shieh • The Arts Center at Governors Island, New York, USA

Brandi Twilley • Sargent’s Daughters, New York, USA

Alix Vernet • Helena Anrather, New York, USA

Michael Snow • The School, New York, USA

Bienal de São Paulo • Various locations, Brazil

EROS • P21, Seoul, South Korea

Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas • National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania

Dowsing • Layr, Vienna, Austria

Wanda Czełkowska • Muzeum Susch, Zernez, Switzerland

Noa Eshkol • neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany

Gilles Jacot • Rinde am Rhein, Düsseldorf, Germany

Nora Turato • Sprüth Magers, Berlin,...