Published eight times a year, frieze includes essays and columns by today’s most forward-thinking writers, artists and curators, as well as exhibition reviews from around the world.
In the April Issue of frieze
Island Life: Dan Fox invites six artists, curators and writers to give their opinion on how identity, infrastructure and education shape art in the Caribbean today. With over 700 islands, each hosting a different range of languages, the region represents a uniquely rich and complex set of cultures and histories. ‘The idea that anything intellectual happens here is anathema to the brand we have projected to the outside world.’ (Amanda Coulson, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas)
The New, The New: Henry Flynt, New York-based philosopher, musician and artist talks about half a century of divergent activities, from his writings on aesthetics to his founding of ‘concept art’ in the 1960s. ‘I want to discourage the idea that I’m off in some irrational territory just because artists are these pitiful people who chop off their ears.’
Also featured
Morgan Quaintance surveys a century of ‘slavesploitation’ cinema, asking whether Steve McQueen’s12 Years a Slave has finally exorcised Hollywood’s racist past; Amy Sherlock explores the work of Magali Reus, one of a group of young, London-based artists exploring sleek surfaces and abject bodies; and Agnieszka Gratza looks at phantoms and immaterial labour in the films of Agnieszka Kurant.
The post Frieze #162 appeared first on PhotoIreland.