Andrew Durbin

London

Writer and Editor-in-Chief at Frieze

Editor-in-Chief of @friezeofficial. Book about Peter Hujar and Paul Thek forthcoming from FSG/Granta in 2025.

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Articles

Edward Gillman on Strengthening Chisenhale Gallery’s Ties to London

Mar 7, 2025 | frieze.com | Andrew Durbin |Edward Gillman

Andrew Durbin Your appointment as director of London’s Chisenhale Gallery comes at a moment of great difficulty for UK institutions. Edward Gillman Institutions across the England, but particularly in London, are facing challenges in how they retain relevance to audiences and accountability to artists living and working within their immediate locale.
Venice Biennale 2026: Give the British Pavilion to a Young Artist

Jan 15, 2025 | frieze.com | Andrew Durbin

Ahead of the 61st Venice Biennale next April, the national pavilions have begun to announce their participating artists, including Abbas Akhavan for Canada, Yto Barrada for France and Florentina Holzinger for Austria. We should learn the name of the UK artist by late spring or early summer this year, but speculation is already mounting. After two pavilions largely devoted to installation, film and the photographic image, will it be a painter or a sculptor?
Why Is the UK Giving Away Copyrighted Art to Silicon Valley?

Jan 15, 2025 | frieze.com | Andrew Durbin |Beeban Kidron

Andrew Durbin The UK government recently proposed allowing AI companies to train their systems on copyrighted material. Can you tell me about your campaign and the reason you’ve taken on this issue? Beeban Kidron Most creative people embrace technology in their practice, but the terms upon which they are being asked to work with AI are deeply unfair.
Celebrating 100 Years of Joan Mitchell

Jan 3, 2025 | frieze.com | Andrew Durbin |Amy Sillman |Lucy Ives

Dear Joan,We never met, but when this magazine decided to organize a collection of writings honouring you on the centenary of your birth, my first thought was how much I wish I could have spoken to you, just once. I can’t explain why. The sound of your voice? That slight rasp, that hint of impatience with any responsibility – interviews, public lectures, television appearances – other than what was happening in the studio.
Editor’s Picks: Joe Brainard’s Letters Might Break Your Heart

Jan 2, 2025 | frieze.com | Andrew Durbin

Frieze Editor’s Picks is a fortnightly column in which a frieze editor shares their recommendations for what to watch, read and listen to. Joe Brainard, The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard (2024)Last year marked the 30th anniversary of the artist and poet’s death, at 52, after more than a decade in which he had largely retreated from the art world to focus on reading and writing.
The Best Shows to See During ‘Various Others’

Sep 2, 2024 | frieze.com | Andrew Durbin

‘Transferring Domain’ | Nir Altman | 6 September – 19 OctoberFor this year’s Various Others, Munich mainstay Nir Altman is hosting a group exhibition organized by London’s Gathering, one of the more exciting galleries to appear on the UK art scene since the COVID-19 pandemic. The show brings together works by established names Jenny Holzer and Berlinde De Bruyckere with those by emerging artists James Lewis and Emanuel de Carvalho.
Editor’s Picks: David Lynch Re-Releases Stories of Small-Town America

Jul 21, 2024 | frieze.com | Andrew Durbin

Frieze Editor’s Picks is a fortnightly column in which a frieze editor shares their recommendations for what to watch, read and listen to. David Lynch Presents Interview ProjectThis summer, David Lynch will re-release his unnerving collection of 121 short documentary portraits of Americans in high definition. This bleak project – shot by his son Austin Lynch and collaborator Jason S.
Four Galleries to Watch in Tokyo

May 31, 2024 | frieze.com | Andrew Maerkle |Azby Brown |Andrew Durbin |Taro Nettleton

Fig. | Chance encounters have shaped a gallery inspired by Tokyo’s past | Andrew MaerkleWhen Takayuki Kubota, the artist who runs the alternative space Fig., tells me that he’s seeking to build an exhibition-making practice that stops short of professionalism, I check myself.
Ed Atkins and Steven Zultanski on their Daring New Play

May 3, 2024 | frieze.com | Ed Atkins |Steven Zultanski |Andrew Durbin

Andrew Durbin: How did you meet and when did your collaboration begin? Ed Atkins: We both moved to Copenhagen at about the same time and we quickly became friends. When Rikke Hedeager, the chief dramaturg at the city’s Revolver theatre, approached me about mounting a production there, the thought of inviting Steve was very quick and very easy.
National Pavilions Review: A Litany of Absences

Apr 14, 2024 | frieze.com | Andrew Durbin

Well, Germany is exhausted. In 2022, its signature international exhibition, Documenta, stumbled under its own monumental weight into a shambolic debate about the limits of artistic and political expression, especially regarding antisemitism, which has only reached new levels of intensity with the current Gaza-Israel War. Now, with the future of Documenta uncertain, and exhibitions cancelled or on hold, artists, writers and academics have rightly complained of a deep chill in the air.