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Trump’s Dismantling of DEI Puts Culture Workers on the Frontlines

2 months ago | frieze.com | Cassie Packard |TK Smith |Chloe Stead |Rebecca Pauline Jampol |Daisy Nam |Alyssa Nitchun

On 20 January, the White House issued an executive order that demanded the termination of all Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programmes. Following this order, there have been instances of US museums cancelling exhibitions, closing diversity offices and deleting DEI ‘buzzwords’ from their websites. On 27 March, another executive order directly targeted the Smithsonian Institution.
The Year in Review: Frieze Editors on Art in 2024

Dec 10, 2024 | frieze.com | Marko Gluhaich |Vanessa Peterson |Lou Selfridge |Chloe Stead

Marko Gluhaich What trends have you noticed this year? Chloe Stead Every year, I express disappointment in the performances I’ve seen, but this year, I finally encountered an example of the gritty body art performance I’d been missing. I didn’t think I cared for Young Boy Dancing Group because they seemed gimmicky – something for Instagram. But this August, I attended a self-titled performance they did in the courtyard of an empty apartment block in Berlin and was blown away.
Editor’s Picks: Demi Moore Self-Destructs in ‘The Substance’

Sep 30, 2024 | frieze.com | Chloe Stead

Frieze Editor’s Picks is a fortnightly column in which a frieze editor shares their recommendations for what to watch, read and listen to. Coralie Fargeat, The Substance, 2024The Substance may be a flawed film but seeing it in a packed cinema was the best communal viewing experience I’ve had in a long time. People gasped, groaned and swore; a few horrified movie-goers even picked up their bags and left.
Skulptur Projekte Münster’s New Directors Haven’t Quit on Germany

Sep 25, 2024 | frieze.com | Chloe Stead

Formed 25 years ago in Zagreb, after the disintegration of Yugoslavia, What, How & for Whom/WHW is a four-person curatorial collective named after the three basic questions of economic organization. Last month, three of its members – Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović – were announced as the new artistic directors of Skulptur Projekte Münster.
Dispatch from Leros: An Island of Outcasts

Aug 16, 2024 | frieze.com | Chloe Stead

There are 227 inhabited Grecian islands and, if my inbox is anything to go by, at least half of them have, at one time or another, been used as the glamourous backdrop for an exhibition organized by an art foundation. The most famous of these idyllic holiday-destinations-cum-art hotspots is almost certainly Hydra, where billionaire collector Dakis Joannou hosts an annual event at Deste Foundation, but there are countless other examples, from Samos and Anafi to Chios and Spetses.
Two Exhibitions Chart Judy Chicago’s Visionary Legacy

Aug 16, 2024 | frieze.com | Chloe Stead

A small watercolour caught my eye at the entrance to ‘Herstory’, Judy Chicago’s current survey at the LUMA Foundation, Arles. In this drawing, part of the 140-work series ‘Autobiography of a Year (1993–94)’, a crudely rendered woman is about to be hit on the head by a man holding a mallet. An accusation in a mix of loopy cursive and capital letters encloses her from above and below. ‘You make BAD ART,’ the text reads.
In Athens, Female Artists Have Taken Over the National Museum of Contemporary Art

Jun 28, 2024 | frieze.com | Chloe Stead

Installed on the North and South facades of The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (ΕΜΣΤ), What if Women Ruled the World? – a 2016 neon work by the Berlin-based artist Yael Bartana – is intended as a provocation.
Editor’s Picks: It’s a Brat Girl Summer

Jun 28, 2024 | frieze.com | Chloe Stead

Charlie XCX ‘Brat’ (2024)Until last week, I couldn’t have named a single Charli XCX song, but even I failed to avoid BRAT (2024), which, with its striking neon green cover and lyrics about famous frenemies, felt like it was Taylor-made to go viral. After a summer of pop releases that have failed to catch fire, the British musician’s sixth studio album sees her finally take up the mantle of ‘Main Pop Girl’ after skirting around the edges of stardom since the release of ‘True Romance’ in 2013.
Jana Euler’s Rebuke of Sexism in the German Art Scene

Jun 6, 2024 | frieze.com | Chloe Stead

Let’s get the obvious out of the way first: Jana Euler’s GWF 1 (2019) is a painting of a huge dick. The Tate website calls ‘Great White Fear’ (2019), the nine-canvas series of which this work is part, ‘phallic-like’, but that’s far too polite. Depicting muscular sharks jumping out of water amid splashes of sea spray, these paintings are about as understated in their phallicism as the veiny, ejaculating penises horny teenagers like to draw on each other’s schoolbooks.
The Diriyah Biennale Indexes the Transformation of Saudi Arabia

May 3, 2024 | frieze.com | Chloe Stead

Much like Los Angeles, Riyadh is one big sprawl. During my trip to the Saudi capital, I seemed to spend more time travelling between my hotel in the city centre and the neighbouring suburb of At-Dir’iyah – home of the Diriyah Biennale – than I did actually looking at art. It couldn’t be helped. For now, the hospitality and accommodation options beyond the centre are limited, but it won’t stay this way for long. The Saudi government has big plans for the self-styled ‘City of Earth’.