Issue 152
Jan - Feb 2013

Michael Famighetti considers the changing American landscape in the artist’s work; Cuban-American painter Carmen Herrera talks to British artist David Batchelor about her 80 years of making art and Eli Sudbrack writes about the people, places and artists that have influenced his collaborative multimedia practice.

From this issue

On the occasion of a major touring retrospective that marks four decades of the artist’s work, Michael Famighetti considers the changing American landscape in the photographs of Robert Adams

BY Michael Famighetti |

Shepherds and colonialism, appropriation and the Romantic tradition

BY Amy Sherlock |

The Los Angeles-based filmmaker discusses cities, soundtracks and landscapes

Eli Sudbrack of assume vivid astro focus writes about the people, places and artists that have influences his collaborative multimedia practice

BY Eli Sudbrack |

British artist David Batchelor talks to Cuban-American painter Carmen Herrera about her 80 years of making art

How Paul Elliman responds to the spaces, objects, words and sounds that surround him

BY Jennifer Kabat |

Conflict, communion and making human presence resonate in the landscape

BY Silas Martí |

Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi and Mark Fisher discuss exhaustion, the financial crisis, aesthetic resistance and the ‘slow cancellation of the future’

What can art teach us about happiness?

BY Jonathan Griffin |

New Year Quiz

BY Tom Morton |

On limousines, road trips and mobility

BY Jennifer Allen |

On working as an artist in Beirut today

BY Kaelen Wilson-Goldie |

Trevor Paglen and the final frontier

BY George Pendle |

Taking part in Tino Sehgal’s These associations

BY Agnieszka Gratza |

How Occupy influenced New York’s art scene

BY Tirdad Zolghadr |

Three new publications about globalization and contemporary curating

BY Sam Thorne |

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

BY Andrea Büttner |

The chess-playing automaton that defeated Napoleon

BY Jason Farago |

Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK

BY Chris Sharratt |

The paintings, drawings and animations of Tala Madani

BY Aram Moshayedi |

Meaning, memory and mockery

BY Jan Verwoert |

Q. What should stay the same? A. Clean air, clean earth, clean water.

BY Jonas Mekas |

Eli Sudbrack of assume vivid astro focus writes about the people, places and artists that have influences his collaborative multimedia practice

BY Eli Sudbrack |

The French composer's purpose was to find a breach in the fortress of musical tradition, open up ‘fissures of randomness for the poetic adventure to slip through’

BY Rob Young |