frieze issue 95 out now
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Sharon Lockharts new film Pine Flat is her most ambitious work to date. Michael Ned Holte considers the complicated boundaries between fact and fiction in Lockharts rigorously formal work in frieze issue 95.
Christy Lange talks politics, feminism, the art world, media, religion and integrity with Martha Rosler; Peter Eleey admires the gritty glamour of Marepes work and Catherine Wood explores the films of Catherine Sullivan which, between historical periods and locations, connect Baroque ideas with the subjectivity of individual. Emily King talks to product designer Konstantin Grcic about ephemerality and the possibility of creating a new language of design and Joerg Heiser, Erden Kosova and Jan Verwoert report from the 9th Istanbul Biennial.
Also featured: Richard Hughes by Alex Farquharson, Mindy Shapero by Christopher Miles, Dave Hullfish Bailey by Lars Bang Larsen and Mircea Cantor by Christy Lange.
In the front section Robert Storr asks if the new art history is a one-party state, Brian Dillon delves into the photographic archive of Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros and George Pendle investigates Google’s recent foray into satellite mapping. Melissa Gronlund watches Me and You and Everyone We know and considers what happens when an artist turns commerically successful filmmaker; Dan Fox looks at the recent trend of seminal bands performing their ‘signature’ albums and Jeremy Deller and Iwona Blazwick discuss whether art prizes can be useful. Plus our usual round up of books and events.
The back section includes reviews of the Lyon Biennial, London in Six Easy Steps, Rita Akermann, Tue Greenfort, 1979, Lee Friedlander, 3rd Gothenberg Biennial, Alessandro Raho, Kota Ezawa, Richard Venlet, On Demand, Interstate, Pia Ronicke, 7, Dike Blair, Arturo Herrera, Jaki Irvine, Lisa Sanditz, Henning Bohl, A Certain Tendency in Representation and Philosophical Toys.
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