Prospect.1 New Orleans
Looking Back
The largest biennial of international art ever held in the USA opened last November, and helped to revitalize a city still suffering in the wake of Hurricane Katrina by Steven Stern
Film
Looking Back
Persepolis, Hunger, Waltz with Bashir, Gomorrah, Man on Wire and My Winnipeg: Virginie Sélavy and Katja Nicodemus reflect on their cinematic highlights from 2008
Design
Looking Back
The best of 2008: the Beijing Olympics, Jamie Hewlett, the Venice Architecture Biennale, Barack Obama, Macguffins, museum shows and new coins by Alice Twemlow
Group Shows
Looking Back
'Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns', 'Traces du Sacré’, 'After Nature' and 'Glossolalia': frieze asks 18 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant group shows of 2008
Biennials and Survey Shows
Looking Back
frieze asks 18 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant biennials and survey shows of 2008
Current Issue
January 2009
Out With the Old
On 20th January, George W. Bush’s disastrous reign will be over, but the hard work will be just beginning
How Soon is Now?
During economic crises, sobriety is not what art needs most
Sean Landers: Onwards!
What am I looking forward to in 2009?
On Being Debonair
A new biography of George Plimpton and the publication of Frederick Seidel’s collected poems celebrate two suave writers
Music
The best releases of 2008 and the year’s most compelling work in the field of extreme music
Are You Experienced?
How designers are adopting the strategies of Conceptual art
A Brief History of Time
The home of John Latham, one of Britain’s most radical artists, has opened to the public two years after his death
Film
The cinematic highlights of 2008
Design
The best of 2008, from the Olympics to Obama, Macguffins, museum shows and new coins
Biennials and Survey Shows
frieze asked 18 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant biennials and survey shows of 2008
Group Shows
frieze asked 18 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant group shows of 2008
Solo Shows
frieze asked 18 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant solo shows of 2008
Emerging Artists

frieze asked 18 critics and curators from around the world to choose who they felt to be the most significant emerging artists of 2008
Looking Forward
frieze asked 18 critics and curators from around the world what they’re looking forward to in 2009
Prospect.1 New Orleans
The largest biennial of international art ever held in the USA opened last November, and helped to revitalize a city still suffering in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
How Will This Affect Me?
Censorship, sexuality, creativity and the economic meltdown. Featuring a specially commissioned collage by Cerith Wyn Evans
Tate Triennial 2009
Nicolas Bourriaud, curator of the next Tate Triennial, ‘Altermodern’, talks to frieze about botany, modernity, time, class and exhibition-making
53rd Venice Biennale
frieze talks to Daniel Birnbaum about curating the Turin Triennial and his role as Director of the 53rd Venice Biennale which opens this summer
The Big Issue
The popularity of enormous sculptures created by Chinese artists has little to do with a rigorous engagement with ideas or materials
Various venues
3rd Yokohama Triennial
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
theanyspacewhatever
Various venues
Brighton Photo Biennial 2008
Fondation d’entreprise Ricard
The Consistency of the Visible
Ibirapuera Park
28th Sao Paulo Biennial
New Museum
Elizabeth Peyton
Centre for Contemporary Arts
Abraham Cruzvillegas
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Christian Jankowski
Various venues
6th Taipei Biennial
greengrassi
Giuseppe Gabellone
International Center for Photography
Susan Meiselas
Akademie der Künste
Notation
LA Louver
Ken Price
Fruitmarket Gallery
Close-Up
Francesca Minini Contemporary Art
Simon Dybbroe Møller
Gavin Brown’s enterprise
Rob Pruitt
Vitamin Creative Space
Xu Tan
The Drawing Room
TINA
Van Abbemuseum / Muziekcentrum Frits Philips
Heartland
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Edgar Arceneaux
T1+2 Gallery
Makiko Nagaya
Loraini Alimantiri Gazonrouge,
Dora Economou
Editors’ Blog 
Report from LA Returns
Go back and check out my last blog from LA and you’ll see a photograph of a sign posted in Runyon Canyon, a local…
Current Shows 
The Drawing Center
Matt Mullican by Katie Kitamura
Thomas Dane Gallery Project Space
Carey Young by Bettina Brunner
Statens Museum for Kunst
Reality Check by Matilde Digmann
Rachel Uffner Gallery
Jennifer Cohen & Vlatka Horvat by Katie Kitamura
Freymond-Guth & Co Fine Arts
Christodoulos Panayiotou by Burkhard Meltzer
Hill House
Laurence Kavanagh by Jonathan Griffin
Galerie Martin Janda
Roman Signer by Jakob Neulinger
Deutsche Guggenheim
Anish Kapoor by Daniel Miller
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Hard Targets: Masculinity and Sport by Sarah-Neel Smith
Wellcome Collection
War + Medicine by Eliza Williams
Frith Street Gallery
Dayanita Singh by Natasha Degen
Galerie Barbara Wien
Nina Canell by Quinn Latimer
The Approach W1
Phillip Allen by Katherine Holmgren
PARTICIPANT INC
Psychology of a Pawn by Anna Gritz
Comment 
Financial troubles at LA MOCA
by Catherine Taft
Rescue plans proposed for the ailing West Coast institution
The Kandinsky Prize
by Max Seddon
Controversy in the Moscow art world as ultra-nationalist painter Alexei Belyaev-Guintovt wins the Kandinsky Prize
Swap Shop
by Daniel Miller
E-Flux Video Rental opens in Berlin
From the Archives
From May 2008
Mark Leckey
From issue 115 of frieze, first published in May 2008: Mark Leckey on the artists and filmmakers who have influenced his practice. Leckey is the winner of the 2008 Turner Prize.
















