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State of the Art
Spirit Guide
The many uses of the Zeitgeist by Dan Fox
View from the Bridge
Talk, Talk
The trials and tribulations of the international lecture circuit by Robert Storr
Pretty, Pretty Good
Made in Berlin
Being a foreigner in Germany’s capital by Jennifer Allen
Philosophy
Reality Check
Philosophy in 2009: The Invisible Committee; speculative realism; an all-star conference on communism; new books from Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek by Mark Fisher
Books
Literary highlights of 2009, a poetry scandal, the Man Booker International Prize, artists’ writings and a new study on Robert Ryman by Amit Chaudhuri and Brian Sholis
Film
The best motion pictures and moving images of 2009 by Stuart Comer and Rajendra Roy
Design
Re-branding débâcles, online fonts, the closure of Gourmet magazine, the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus and a new film by Eugenia Bell
Music
The highs and lows of 2009, including nostalgia, Alarm Will Sound and Terry Riley; Throbbing Gristle, Luke Fowler, Trembling Bells, Luc Ferrari and ‘Lust for Life’ by Dan Fox and David Grubbs
Architecture
Unemployment, the tallest building in the world, the London Olympics, new galleries in Metz and Rome, the Shanghai World Expo and contrasting spa designs by Douglas Murphy and Oliver Elser
Looking Forward 2010
frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they’re looking forward to in 2010
Looking Back
Emerging Artists 2009
frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose who they felt to be the most significant emerging artists of the year
Looking Back
Solo Shows 2009
frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant solo shows of 2009
Looking Back
Biennials & Group Shows 2009
frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant group shows and biennials of 2009
Looking Forward
Auckland & Sydney 2010
Two antipodean exhibitions, ‘Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon’ and ‘The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age’, will explore ideas ranging from the role of risk-taking to the complexities of geo-politics in making art by Nicola Harvey
Interview
UNP and The Building
Maria Lind and Dieter Roelstraete talk to Anton Vidokle about the informal, ‘free school’ initiatives for art that operated for two years in Berlin
Interview
Whitney Biennial 2010
Simply titled ‘2010’, and curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari, New York’s famous biennial is in its 75th year. Bonami talked to Dan Fox about ‘American-ness’ – and how, for the first time, the show will include more women artists than men by Dan Fox
3rd Moscow Biennale
Jean-Hubert Martin’s exhibition sought to mix Russian art with work from other cultures and different times by Christy Lange
10th Biennale de Lyon
Curator Hou Hanru turns to everyday spectacle for inspiration by Vivian Rehberg
10th Baltic Triennial
Turning to Vilnius for inspiration, ‘Urban Stories’ built complex narratives from fraught histories by Jennifer Higgie
City Report
Ramallah
Life as an artist, writer or curator in an occupied city – the administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority in the central West Bank by Khaled Hourani, T.Z. Toukan and Daniel Miller
Monograph
In Some Small Way
Explorations in size and scale in recent Japanese sculpture by Edward Allington
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