More than 110 of the world’s leading galleries will participate in the fair, with sections for emerging talent and historical art, the Frieze Artist Award commission, Frieze Film, talks and a Frieze Week festival of culture
To mark the Gerhard Richter retrospective at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, frieze d/e spoke with Hal Foster about the painter’s take on light, Pop and politics
Kasper König is retiring after more than a decade as director of Museum Ludwig. He spoke to Jörg Scheller about his farewell exhibition, Mesut Özil’s football shirt and the erotics of museums.
From issue 144, January-February 2012: Kathy Noble talks to Tania Bruguera about the artist’s long-term project in New York, Immigrant Movement International, and what it means not to ‘represent politics but to create political situations’
Yto Barrada juggles her work as an artist with running a cinémathèque in Tangier. She talked to Jennifer Higgie about her reasons for opening a cinema, the ‘strategies of resistance’ she encounters in Morocco today, and her interest in botany
Jesse Ball is an author, poet, artist and lucid dreaming instructor based in Chicago. Ross Simonini talked to him about his new novel, The Curfew, ‘writing as a performance’, and the importance of both clarity and deception in story-telling
On the occasion of a major retrospective in London, Paul Schütze talked to pioneering composer Eliane Radigue about her 50-year career, which spans electronic music, Tibetan Buddhism, musique concrète and ‘anti-acoustics’
Brooklyn-based installation artist and enfant terrible Matthew Ronay has earned a reputation for sculpture and objets trouvés that push the semantic boundaries of humour and revulsion. His work from the early 2000s, moored on hypertrophic depictions of conspicuous consumption – both sexual and cultural – included odd juxtapositions of pop ephemera, from Curtis Mayfield to fried eggs to feline anuses.
