In the May issue of frieze: Colin Chinnery charts the ingenious career of Xu Zhen and his cultural production organization, MadeIn Company and Paloma Varga Weisz discusses the evolution of her pictorial language, from her father’s illustrations of Jean Cocteau’s poetry to Lucas Cranach, Giorgio de Chirico and Gerhard Merz.
Also featured: Dan Fox visits Michael Smith in New York, as the master of tragicomedy prepares for his first UK solo show at Glasgow’s Tramway. Accompanying a specially commissioned project by the artist, Alice Butler explores the work of Cally Spooner to discover how new media is making performers of us all. On the 20th anniversary of Derek Jarman’s death, Simon Fisher Turner talks about composing the music for his films.
