Issue 170
April 2015

The April issue of frieze is out now, with features on Paulo Nazareth, Lucas Blalock and new directions in constructed photography, plus all our regular columns as well as a special expanded section of reviews from around the world.

Also featuring: Brian Sholis on relating bodily sensations to virtual spaces in the photographs of Lucas Blalock; Norwegian artist Ida Ekblad talks to Zoe Pilger about painting, drifting, emptiness and energy; Josephine New looks at Simon Ling’s east London plein-air paintings; and Jennifer Higgie encounters the bewildered mystics and mournful minstrels that populate the works of Ryan Mosley.

From this issue

Relating bodily sensations to virtual spaces in the photographs of Lucas Blalock

BY Brian Sholis |

Jennifer Higgie on the bewildered mystics, mournful minstrels and mysterious rituals of Ryan Mosley’s paintings

BY Jennifer Higgie |

Working for the man, or machine

BY Vivian Sky Rehberg |

Gideon Lewis-Kraus traces the transcontinental journeys of Brazilian artist Paolo Nazareth

BY Gideon Lewis-Kraus |

On collective memory and personal experience

BY Paul Teasdale |

The Glasgow School of Art — past and future

BY Mark Sadler |

Mining the traditions of the political cartoon

BY Shanay Jhaveri |

Why are there so few biographies of African artists?

BY Sean O'Toole |

W.A.G.E.’s fight for artist fees

BY Nicole Cohen AND Greig de Peuter |

PJ Harvey records a new album in public

BY Lucy O’Brien |

Meriç Algün Ringborg discusses the books that have influenced her

BY Meriç Algün Ringborg |

Re-reading Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex

BY Jenni Sorkin |

The shifting influence of Milan’s Salone del Mobile

BY Alice Rawsthorn |

Ida Ekblad talks to Zoe Pilger about painting, drifting, emptiness and energy

BY Zoe Pilger |

Containers, collaboration and perception

BY Matthew McLean |

How a generation of artists is re-ordering the building blocks of photography

BY Aaron Schuman |

The memory and lifespan of objects

BY Colin Perry |

Simon Ling and plein-air painting in east London

BY Josephine New |

Q: What images keep you company in the space where you work?

A: None. I just try to concentrate on what I am doing.

BY Daniel Buren |

New Museum, New York, USA

BY Dan Fox |

A recent retrospective showcased the artist’s unswerving ability to beat expectations

Glasgow Sculpture Studios, UK

BY Chris Sharratt |