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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Editor's Letter

Frieze

Jack O'Brien • To Do: What's on the agenda for the art world's most booked and busy?

Ring Cycle • One Take: Daisy Lafarge on Tacita Dean's 2006 work Crowhurst

Raiding the Icebox • Dance: A celebration of Yvonne Rainer's return to choreography by Charles Aubin

In Pleasure or Pain • Dance: Remembering Rebecca Horn's revolutionary experiments in movement by Vanessa Peterson

Don't Blink • Dance: Malik Nashad Sharpe turns the audience's gaze back on itself by Travis Alabanza

Moving Pictures • Dance: What does choreography bring to film? by Damien Jalet

Temps Lié • Dance: Joseph Toonga and Joseph Sissens on expanding and reimagining the Royal Ballet

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Features

Tracey Emin • Profile: From her hard-fought battle with cancer to her delicate brushstrokes and sinuous prose, the artist reflects on a life and career that challenges conventions and celebrates raw vulnerability

FROM PRETTY TO CUTE AND BACK AGAIN • Essay: McKenzie Wark on cuteness as sociocultural category, transfeminine aesthetics and the revolutionary potential of prettiness

‘I'm trying to explore a state in which everything feels charged.’ • Interview: With a new exhibition opening at Camden Art Centre in London, artist Jack O'Brien speaks to curator Edward Gillman about how the city's architecture shapes the eroticism of assemblage

Carry Forward • Festschrift: As Alvin Ailey's retrospective opens at the Whitney Museum, Malik Gaines.Alastair Macaulay, Constance Stamatiou and members of the choreographer's company reflect on how his astonishing vision changed American dance

The Line Becomes a Spiral • The virtuosity of Alvin Ailey proposed an alternative to the forward march of 20th-century art history by Malik Gaines

Dancer from the Dance • Current and former members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater reflect on the legacy of the great choreographer by Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Revelator • Alvin Ailey's most important dance dwelled in history to celebrate freedom by Alastair Macaulay

Mourning into Dancing • More than a half century after it premiered, Cry remains a poignant expression of loss and grief by Constance Stamatiou

What Could Have Been • The following pages are selected from The Use of Photography (2005), reissued by Fitzcarraldo Editions and Seven Stories Press this month

Asia Pacific

Europe

Americas

Reviews

Judy Chicago • LUMA Foundation, Arles, France, and Serpentine Galleries, London, UK

Joseph Kusendila • WIELS and CINEMATEK, Brussels, Belgium

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry • Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland

Sidsel Meineche Hansen • Ordet, Milan, Italy

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Hannah Höch • Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

Antonio Ballester Moreno • Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany

Vaginal Davis • Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Ade Darmawan • Cemeti – Institute for Art and Society, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and ROH Projects, Jakarta, Indonesia

Aotearoa Contemporary • Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Aotearoa/New Zealand

Backbone • Carbon.12, Dubai, UAE

Renee So • Kate MacGarry, London, UK

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