90s

Isabel Waidner imagines a different version of the decade that gave us the yBas (and frieze magazine)

During the Troubles in Ireland, Darran Anderson remembers finding sanctuary in County Derry’s amusement arcades 

From the first steps of the internet to vibrant raves, ‘Time Is Thirsty’ at Kunsthalle Wien aspires to create a ‘temporal mash up’

‘Enemy Kitchen makes Iraqi culture visible in the US beyond war, producing an alternative discourse and social space.’

‘At the first site, the freedom of the United States of America is honoured; at the second, the history of its immigrants is conserved’

‘It reminds me of my formative years and a time of many firsts’

‘No other type of cinema in recent decades has worshipped reality in this intense manner’

‘The way she stumbled on stage, with her smeared lips and perfect legs, appeared at once criminally affected and wildly persuasive’

‘Every two minutes, people upload more images to the internet than existed in total just 150 years ago’

‘In moments of intense friendship, pure enthusiasm is more than anywhere else possible’

‘It embodies the qualities of enthusiasm, enquiry and toe-curling earnestness that art can’t exist without’

‘It’s all there: charm, humour, ethics, friendship’

‘I knew, while trying that chair, that I wanted whatever the future had to offer’

For all the camp and capering, Eddie and Patsy’s antics also have a plaintive, even existential tinge

‘A magical, fucked-up masterpiece’

Hall’s understanding of cultural identity allows us to deconstruct and reconstruct who we think we are

‘Released following the musician’s death in 1993, the album is an extraordinary swan song: morose, comical and utterly preposterous’

‘Hollis’s great skill is to reconcile frugality with generosity’

‘I keep returning to the work – even as it changes’ 

The inspirational founder of Germany’s Green Party and her untimely death