Issue 140
Jun - Aug 2011

In the Summer Issue of frieze: Alessandro Rabottini On the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification, contributing editor Barbara Casavecchia, talks to Italian curators and critics about the country’s political crisis and its effect on cultural institutions. With contributions from: Gabriella Belli, Cecilia Canziani, Massimiliano Gioni, Francesco Manacorda and Alessandro Rabottini.

In ‘State of the Art,’ co-editor Jennifer Higgie considers censorship in the art world, and asks us to remember that Ai Weiwei is one of thousands of artists, writers and activists who are incarcerated around the world because of their beliefs.

John C. Welchman explores the parameters of ‘the marine’ in the work in the work of Cosima von Bonin, whose final installment of her touring exhibition ‘The Lazy Susan Series’ is on now at Mamco, Geneva.

Whilst ahead of his retrospective at the Guggenheim, New York, this summer, Lee Ufan talks to Melissa Chiu about his five decades as an artist, writer and philosopher.

From this issue

To coincide with the publication of his new book Retromania, Simon Reynolds talks about pop’s obsession with its immediate past

BY Dan Fox |

Taxter & Spengemann

BY Graham T. Beck |

Karten Schubert

BY Eleanor Nairne |

Turner Contemporary

BY Martin Herbert |

National Gallery of Canada

BY Robert Enright |

Exploring the historical and metaphorical parameters of ‘the marine’ in the installations, sculptures and wall pieces of Cosima von Bonin

BY John C. Welchman |

MIT List Visual Arts Center

BY Geeta Dayal |

Sigmund Freud goes to the movies

BY John Menick |

Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

BY Jonathan Griffin |

The sculptures and installations of Anthea Hamilton stage the complexities of interpretation and desire

BY Martin Herbert |

On the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification, curators and critics respond to the country’s political crisis and its effect on cultural institutions with Gabriella Belli, Cecilia Canziani, Massimiliano Gioni, Francesco Manacorda and Alessandro Rabottini

BY Barbara Casavecchia |

In an ongoing series, frieze asks an artist, curator or writer to list the books that have influenced them

Deconstructed canvases and layers of reference

BY Katie Kitamura |

Santa Monica Museum of Art

BY Christopher Bedford |

On his 100th birthday, a reappraisal of Marshall McLuhan’s prophecies

BY Jennifer Allen |

Onassis Cultural Centre

BY Stephanie Bailey |

Museological display, truth, fiction and ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’

BY Ronald Jones |

Renwick Gallery

BY Dan Fox |

Facts and false memories; nostalgia and ciphers of experience

BY Sally O'Reilly |

Whitney Museum of American Art

BY Leora Maltz-Leca |

The many iconic images of the late Elizabeth Taylor

After the opening last year of the Lee Ufan Museum – a collaboration with the architect Tadao Ando on Naoshima Island, Japan – and ahead of his largest retrospective to date, at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Lee Ufan talks to Melissa Chiu about his five decades as an artist, writer and philosopher

BY Dr. Melissa Chiu |

Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture

BY Moosje Goosen |

Kunstmuseum St. Gallen

BY Aoife Rosenmeyer |

La Virreina Centre de la Imatge

BY Anna Colin |

How can cultural institutions best respond to political crises?

BY Tirdad Zolghadr |

Censorship and the art world

BY Jennifer Higgie |

Kunstverein Freiburg & Contemporary Fine Arts

BY Mark Prince |

Q. What’s your favourite journey? A. Leaving.

Great buildings that were never built

BY George Pendle |

Sarah Cottier Gallery

BY Justin Paton |

Johannesburg Art Gallery

BY Sean O’Toole |

Working between documentaries and blockbusters, Brazilian director José Padilha is reviving the legacy of neo-realism

BY Bert Rebhandl |

The Whitworth Art Gallery

BY Kathy Noble |

Sam Thorne explores the esoteric work of writers who created fictional artists, from Paul Auster and Susan Sontag to Oscar Wilde and Marcel Proust

BY Sam Thorne |

Unpacking David Foster Wallace’s library and the publication of his unfinished final novel

BY Hermione Hoby |

Design Museum

BY Emily King |