Issue 172
Jun - Aug 2015

The June/July/August issue of frieze is out now, with features on Metahaven, Maria Loboda and Kevin Beasley and a special reviews focus on the Venice Biennale.

Also featuring: Sarah Hromack unpacks the work of the Dutch design studio Metahaven; David Campany interviews LaToya Ruby Frazier, winner of the 2015 International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award for her first book; Charlie Fox unravels the interweaving of art and illustration.

From this issue

What makes us human

BY Amy Sherlock |

What is the future of arts education in Baghdad?

BY Kaelen Wilson-Goldie |

In search of a pan-European sense of humour

BY Timotheus Vermeulen |

Radical minimalism from India and Pakistan

BY Shanay Jhaveri |

Decoding Maria Loboda’s enigmatic archaeology

BY Amy Sherlock |

Renzo Piano’s new Whitney Museum

BY Carson Chan |

The intermingling of art and illustration in the work of Catrin Morgan, Jockum Nordström, Tomi Ungerer

BY Charlie Fox |

Filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s exploration of the post-Soviet condition

BY Bert Rebhandl |

Acting, therapy, song and humour

BY Jonathan P. Watts |

Two recent books explore how online trolling is reshaping publishing and communication

BY David Crowley |

Sarah Hromack unpacks the work of the Dutch design studio

BY Sarah Hromack |

Depending on your point of view, the composer, writer and conductor is either a purveyor of cold-hearted didacticism, or a creator of glittering musical worlds

BY Leo Chadburn |

David Campany interviews LaToya Ruby Frazier, the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award winner

BY David Campany |

The pros and cons of new digital interface design

BY Alice Rawsthorn |

Reformulating the human body in the age of mass digitization

BY Pablo Larios |

Yale Union, Portland, Oregon, USA

BY Nick Irvin |

Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

BY Andrea Bell |

In an age of perpetual distraction, how might institutions slow down and refocus the way we look at art?

BY Anthony Huberman |

Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy

BY Barbara Casavecchia |

Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain

BY Amy Sherlock |

Nicholas Mangan’s exploration of raw materials and social change

BY Max Andrews |

mumok, Vienna, Austria

BY Radhika Kapila |

De Hallen, Haarlem, the Netherlands

BY Tom Morton |

Sculpture, field recordings and the ghosts of dead rappers

BY Andy Battaglia |

Kasia Michalski Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

BY Krzysztof Kościuczuk |

BQ, Berlin, Germany

BY Kirsty Bell |

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

BY Mark Prince |

Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

BY Kirsty Bell |

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, USA

BY Jonathan Griffin |

Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, USA

BY Summer Guthery |

Herman de Vries’s Dutch pavilion in Venice

BY Jörg Heiser |

Art in General, New York, USA

BY Iona Whittaker |

Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, USA

BY Joseph Akel |

The latex mask of a pre-internet, post-human TV presenter

BY Matthew Noel-Tod |

The Boiler, New York, USA

BY Hannah Stamler |

Et al., San Francisco, USA

BY Monica Westin |

Q. What image keeps you company in the space where you work? A. An enormous, airbrushed, lenticular hologram of myself.

BY Casey Jane Ellison |

Proyecto Paralelo, Mexico City, Mexico

BY Lauren A. Wright |

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

BY Gemma Tipton |

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

BY Mark Sadler |

Hollybush Gardens, London, UK

BY Robert Barry |

Victoria Miro, London, UK

BY Martin Herbert |

Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

BY Tom Morton |

Young Team, London, UK

BY Charlie Fox |

Kestle Barton, Cornwall, UK

BY Jonathan P. Watts |

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK

BY Eleanor Clayton |

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

BY Andrew Maerkle |

56th Venice Biennale, various venues, Italy

BY Barbara Casavecchia |

56th Venice Biennale, various venues, Italy

BY Matthew McLean |

56th Venice Biennale, various venues, Italy

BY Sam Thorne |

56th Venice Biennale, various venues, Italy

BY Max Andrews |

56th Venice Biennale, various venues, Italy

BY Jennifer Higgie |

56th Venice Biennale, various venues, Italy

BY Sean O'Toole |