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Highlights 2015 – Barbara Casavecchia
By Barbara CasavecchiaJonas Mekas, In an instant it all came back to me, 2015. Courtesy the artist and A Palazzo, BresciaIn December, Jonas Mekas was in Brescia for the opening of his show ‘All these...
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In Profile: Condo
By friezeCondo Map, 2016; design: Sam De GrootOpening tomorrow, Condo is ‘a collaborative exhibition’ that invites 24 galleries from around the world to take up residence in eight young London...
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Culture Digest: this week’s new films
By Bert RebhandlFor this new series, film writer Bert Rebhandl selects three very different films out this week in the UK. An Eli Roth splatter-horror flick set in the Amazon; Michael Beach Nichols and...
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Lucy Stein: Portfolio Part 5
By Lucy SteinPlay It as It Lays (1972)In a new series, frieze invites artists to present a series of images that are important to themTuesday Weld in the film adaptation of Joan Didion’s novel Play It...
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Weekend Reading List
By Paul ClintonDexter Sinister, diagram showing statement of intent for the Serving Library Company Inc., 2010. Courtesy Serving Library, New York. Photographing inequality, the literature of drones...
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Lucy Stein: Portfolio Part 6
By Lucy SteinRembrandt van Rhijn, The Abduction of Proserpina, c.1631, oil on wood, 83 x 78 cm, from the collection of the Staatliche Museen, Berlin. Photograph: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty...
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Critic’s Guide: Dublin
By Gemma TiptonMichael Ross, Bully, 2015, plastic, 7cm x 8 cm x 4 cm. Courtesy Ellis King, DublinIn this new series, we ask a critic to select the best shows currently on view in their city. This week...
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Lucy Stein: Portfolio Part 7
By Lucy SteinLucy Stein and Simon Bayliss, Men an tol / Ding dong! (The Sacred sites of West Penwith), 2016. Courtesy the artist; photograph: Lucy Stein/Simon BaylissIn a new series, frieze invites...
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What Milo Rau’s new play tells us about our current ‘humanitarian’ European...
By Dominikus MüllerConsolate Sipérius and Ursina Lardi in Milo Rau's Mitleid. Die Geschichte des Maschinengewehrs, 2016, Schaubühne Berlin; photograph: Daniel SeiffertThis week’s ‘Culture Digest’ comes...
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Grace Schwindt: Portfolio Part 1
By Grace SchwindtCatherine Sullivan, The Chittendens, 2005, 16mm film still. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Catherine Bastide, BrusselsIn a new series, frieze invites artists to present a series of...
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Critic’s Guide: Berlin
By Elisa R. Linn and Lennart WolffClemens von Wedemeyer, 'Cast Behind You The Bones Of Your Mother', 2015–16, installation view, KOW, Berlin 2015. Courtesy the artist and KOW, Berlin; photograph...
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Grace Schwindt: Portfolio Part 2
By Grace SchwindtVictory over the Sun, 1913, production still from a performance at Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, during Art Basel, 2015. In a new series, frieze invites artists to present a...
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Culture Digest: an easy read on a difficult subject
By Dominikus MüllerNavid Kermani, Einbruch der Wirklichkeit, 2016A new book by German author Navid Kermani, tracing a migration route into Europe but in reverse, is honest in its limitationsBOOKSNavid...
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Critic’s Guide: Berlin
By Elisa R. Linn and Lennart WolffTobias Kaspar, Untitled, 2016, laser engraved reflective fabric (34 % Ek, 34 % Po, 32 % Gl) 435 x 175 x 3 cm, installation view (in low light). Courtesy Silberkuppe,...
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Grace Schwindt: Portfolio Part 3
By Grace SchwindtJack Smith, Untitled, c.1958-62/2011, c-type print hand printed from original colour negative, 36 x 27 cm. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels © Jack Smith ArchiveIn a...
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Critic’s Guide: Berlin
By Elisa R. Linn and Lennart WolffKarl Kunz, Deutschland erwache! (Germany Awake!), 1942. oil on plywood, 1.2 x 1.4 m. Courtesy Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie; 2015 donation from the...
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Grace Schwindt: Portfolio Part 4
By Grace SchwindtIan White, Trauerspiel 1, 2012, documentation of performance at Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin. Photograph: © Nina HoffmannIn a new series, frieze invites artists to present a series of images...
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Postcard from the 66th Berlinale
By Esther BussPhilip Scheffner, Havarie, 2016. Courtesy 66th Internationale Filmfestspiele BerlinPhilip Scheffner’s film Havarie is a self-aware representation of the way Europe is dealing with the...
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Critic’s Guide: Berlin
By Elisa R. Linn and Lennart WolffKiki Kogelnik, M, c.1964, oil and acrylic on canvas, 203 x 143 cm. Courtesy Kiki Kogelnik Foundation and König Galerie, BerlinFor this weekly series, we ask a critic...
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Grace Schwindt: Portfolio Part 5
By Grace SchwindtGeorge Grosz, Untitled, 1919, watercolour, reed pen and ink on paper, 40 x 27.5 cm. Courtesy Richard Nagy Ltd., London; Private CollectionIn a new series, frieze invites artists to...
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