For 40 years, Suzanne Lacy has worked collaboratively to create installations, videos and large-scale performances in response to social themes and urban issues
On the occasion of his retrospective at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Frank Stella talks about illusionism, abstract expressionism and the inevitable mechanics of gesture in painting
Monika Baer talks about her approach to painting’s surfaces, which teeter between anti-illusionism and illusionism, tactile and optical qualities, real holes and key holes
For the 7th Berlin Biennale Forget Fear, co-curators Artur Zmijewski and Joanna Warsza invited members from Occupy Movements around the world to take over the ground floor of the Kunst-Werke. How are the members fairing? Berlin-based critic Raimar Stange sat down to talk to Noah Fischer, an artist-activist based in New York. In addition to occupying Forget Fear, Fischer will be participating in this fall's Steirischer Herbst festival in Austria.
A: It’s a way of resisting the lack of meaning in things, a desperate attempt to make sense of how random and absurd the world is — and it’s also a way of celebrating exactly that.
As a director, writer, artist and, more recently, curator, John Waters has been dealing in taste and transgression for close to 50 years. Here he talks about sex, death, God and the art world
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
After heading the museum for more than a decade as director, Kasper König 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’
