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Summer Reads: Books the Frieze Team Can’t Put Down

3 weeks ago | frieze.com | Cassie Packard |Lou Selfridge |Andrew Durbin |Vanessa Peterson |Sean Burns |Ivana Cholakova | +1 more

Frieze PublishingYes, email me reviews, offers, and opinions by artists, writers, and editors from Frieze Frieze EventsYes, email me Frieze Events Inc and Frieze Events Ltd’s global programme information including special offers and benefits The War of Art (2025) | Lauren O’Neill-Butler A book with backbone, Lauren O’Neill-Butler’s The War of Art (2025) draws on oral histories and archival research to elucidate the ways in which artists in the US have protested, agitated and organized since...
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.
The Top Ten Shows Around the World in 2024

Dec 10, 2024 | frieze.com | Ivana Cholakova |Cassie Packard |Lou Selfridge

In a year when AI has become an increasingly present part of our day-to-day lives, it’s no surprise that artists have been making use of technology to think about human experience: at Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, Rindon Johnson’s avatar swims across a body of water which changes in response to live weather data, whilst Ian Cheng’s exhibition at Gladstone Gallery in Seoul saw the artist present two unnerving AI-driven videos.
Louis Fratino Rises to the Occasion

Oct 14, 2024 | frieze.com | Lou Selfridge

There’s a type of pornography in which the camera operator is involved in the action, shooting as they engage in various sexual acts. The resulting video, presenting a participant’s point of view, allows its viewer to imagine they – not some distant actor – are the one being penetrated or fellated. Louis Fratino achieves the same effect, albeit through different means, in his miniature painting Blowjob and Moon (2019), in which a man kneels on all fours, eyes fixed forward.
Editor’s Picks: Netflix's ‘The Perfect Couple’ Is Delightfully Frivolous

Oct 14, 2024 | frieze.com | Lou Selfridge

Frieze Editor’s Picks is a fortnightly column in which a frieze editor shares their recommendations for what to watch, read and listen to. The Perfect Couple (2024)Despite the murder at the core of this Netflix show, there’s something delightfully frivolous about The Perfect Couple. As Nicole Kidman serves blackberry mojitos, Isabelle Adjani – one of France’s most celebrated actresses – slinks about in a feather-trimmed dress, delivering the most over-the-top performance of her career.
Prem Sahib’s Sonic Reckoning with Anti-Immigration Speech

Sep 3, 2024 | frieze.com | Lou Selfridge

A few weeks after the UK General Election in July, I sat in the library, staring over a stranger’s shoulder as he watched a video of the Conservative Party MP Suella Braverman. Devoid of her voice, Braverman appeared almost amiable in the footage, making it easy to forget the damaging rhetoric she espoused while in office.
Esther Kinsky’s Ode to the Power of Cinema

Aug 16, 2024 | frieze.com | Lou Selfridge

Travelling through a small town in south-east Hungary, looking for a place where the land is so flat you can ‘see all the way to Budapest’, German writer Esther Kinsky comes across an abandoned cinema that she can’t seem to get out of her mind. Journeying back and forth from her home in Budapest to visit it, she eventually buys the theatre, filled with grand hopes of restoring the active cinema-going culture she knows has long since left the town.
The Best Shows to See During Glasgow International

May 31, 2024 | frieze.com | Lou Selfridge

Kim Bohie | The Modern Institute | 6 June – 5 SeptemberA dog makes any painting better, or so it seems. In one canvas from the series ‘Leo’ (2023), Kim Bohie’s black labrador retriever looks back over his shoulder like the eponymous subject of Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring (c.1665). In another painting, the dog appears to spread out, sunning himself beside blooming pink flowers, a patch of sea visible in the distance.
The New Queer Minimalism of Brandon Logan

Mar 4, 2024 | frieze.com | Lou Selfridge

To weave with paint is an odd idea, but Brandon Logan has found a way of doing it well. He begins each piece with a series of vertical strings, flooding them with acrylic paint in different patterns to fuse the strings together; rather than working on top of a canvas, Logan creates one as he goes. The 45 works on display in ‘Dog Rose’, the artist’s first solo exhibition at Ingleby Gallery, combine sculptural and painterly elements with breathtaking finesse.
Re-evaluating Rabbie: the Scottish poets wrestling with Robert Burns’ legacy

Jan 25, 2024 | theguardian.com | Lou Selfridge

Robert Burns is somehow invincible. In recent years a slew of critics have attempted to shoggle the Ayrshire Bard off his pedestal: Liz Lochhead has called him “very Weinsteinian”, Stuart Kelly has argued that he may have been a rapist, and his links to enslavement have come under the spotlight, leading to accusations of racism. His status, meanwhile, has barely changed.