Painting, poetry and measuring movement

Kunstbibliothek – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

On limousines, road trips and mobility

Should difference be hidden or visible?

Do we live in a time of ‘patho-politics’?

Looking back at John Berger’s G. and Ways of Seeing, published 40 years ago

Spectatorship, fatigue and addiction

On Abstraction and Destruction

documenta 13 – Review

Anselm Reyle on his collaboration with Franz West on their exhibition Stolen Fantasy which took place last spring at the Schinkel Pavillon

in Berlin

So far, documenta 13 has been defined by the personality of its artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. And that is a tragedy for the art and the artists, whose names were finally released yesterday. What has been described as one of the most exceptional exhibitions in the world – in a painstakingly careful and strikingly intelligent way by Christov-Bakargiev herself – has been overshadowed by antics.

So far, documenta 13 has been defined by the personality of its artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. And that is a tragedy for the art and the artists, whose names were finally released yesterday. What has been described as one of the most exceptional exhibitions in the world – in a painstakingly careful and strikingly intelligent way by Christov-Bakargiev herself – has been overshadowed by antics.

Art and the Cold Civil War

Welcome to the frieze d/e blog! We are happy to be up and running in time for our summer issue, which came out June 1 with lots of goodies: from Michael Riedel’s take on digital dandies to statements by documenta directors, from the past and the near future.

On the different definitions of Pop

Ahead of dOCUMENTA (13), reflections on the exhibition by its previous curators

The changing appearance of money

Ulrike Ottinger’s films fuse the genres of fantasy and documentary. Yet the origins of this fusion lie in another medium: painting

To mark the Gerhard Richter retrospective at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, frieze d/e spoke with Hal Foster about the painter’s take on light, Pop and politics

What are the economics involved when artists have children?