Frieze Magazine - Issue 244 - June - August 2024

In this issue

In the summer issue of frieze, writer Dan Fox profiles Primary Information, a New York-based publisher of artists’ books and writing. Plus, a dossier highlighting four emerging galleries to watch in Tokyo. Ahead of her show at London’s Cubitt Gallery, Marlene Smith speaks to friend Lubaina Himid about intimacy and experimentation. Plus, Hanayo contributes to our series of artists’ ‘to-do’ lists, and the latest iteration of Walter Scott’s new cartoon series.

Tell It Slant

Built Environment: Giovanna Silva on photographing history through unexpected architectural interventions

2 mins

After the Miracle State

Built Environment: Reimagining a postcolonial Ivorian cityscape with less concrete and more natural materials

3 mins

Sleepers Awake

Built Environment: By slowing sound, John Cage created a rousing music of shifting relations to space

3 mins

Where Is Everyone?

Built Environment: Minoru Nomata’s paintings ask why we obsess over unpeopled architecture

3 mins

The Promise of the Past

Built Environment: On the occasion of the ‘Tropical Modernism’ exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Derin Fadina examines the architectural movement’s exclusionary narratives

5 mins

4 Galleries to Watch in Tokyo

Dossier: A new generation of galleries, non-profits and artist-run spaces has emerged in Tokyo, embracing the city’s famous pop sensibility – and revitalizing one of Asia’s oldest and most storied contemporary art sceneswith commissioned

10+ mins

Primary Information

Profile: How a storied artists' book publisher brought 1970s conceptual art into the hands of a new generation

9 mins

I'm trying to follow my instinct: to have confidence and not get into my head too much about what other people are expecting.'

Conversation: Ahead of a solo show at London’s Cubitt Gallery, Marlene Smith speaks to Lubaina Himid about her time in the BLK Art Group, friendship and collaboration

8 mins

The Second Self

On the tenth anniversary of Chris Marker’s pioneering experiment in machine intelligence

7 mins

Inward Yearnings

Essay: Rianna Jade Parker retraces the history of the Jamaican intuitives, a group of self-taught artists who ushered in a national form of artmaking mythologizing African traditions through religious divination and esteem-raising cultural work

8 mins

Pierre Huyghe

A pale tetra fish swims around a vast obsidian tank, while another bobs on its side at the top of the water, perhaps ailing from debilitating swim bladder disease (Circadian Dilemma [El Día del Ojo], 2017).

4 mins

Echoes of the Brother Countries

In recent years, the former German Democratic Republic (DDR) has been the subject of a reappraisal that, while not seeking to redeem the stiflingly authoritarian state, has attempted to present a more nuanced overview of its social and cultural realities.

2 mins

Greater Toronto Art 2024

Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada

2 mins

Nicole Wermers

Nicole Wermers’s Reclining Female #6 (2024) looks out over Glasgow.

2 mins

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Frieze Magazine Description:

Frieze is a contemporary art magazine, published eight times a year. It was founded in London in 1991 and is renowned for publishing essays, profiles, interviews and reviews by today’s leading writers, artists and curators. Across all platforms and live events frieze elevates the provocative, brilliant and leading voices who shape and challenge today’s art world.