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Frieze Magazine - Issue 251 - May 2025

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In this issue

The May issue of frieze magazine is dedicated to artists and writers living and working in New York. The columns section examines the creative afterlife: Yasmina Price outlines how Rosa Barba’s cinematic sculptures archive the remains of time, light and industrial matter; Jesse Dorris writes on Tammy Nguyen’s latest exhibition ‘Paradiso’, detailing the power of translation as the artist reinterprets Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy (c.1321); Danez Smith uses Essex Hemphill’s powerful poetry to combat queer erasure in the US, accelerated by Trump’s re-election; Rafał Zajko speaks to Sean Burns about how his sculptural works tackle circularity, labour and performance; Lauren O’Neill-Butler interviews Vivian Suter about incorporating nature into her painting practice.

Spirit World

One Take: On the occasion of Noah Davis's forthcoming exhibition at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Christopher Alessandrini looks at his 2010 work The Future's Future

2 mins

The Remains of Time

Afterlife: Rosa Barba's ecological cinema comes off the screen

4 mins

New World Coming

Afterlife: Realizing Essex Hemphill's poetry of collective liberation

3 mins

Mortal Concerns ANSLATION Of Dante

Afterlife: How Tammy Nguyen brought Dante into the 21st century

3 mins

Foreverise

Afterlife: The past lives on in Rafal Zajko’s dynamic, campy sculptures as fold to Sean Burns

3 mins

Leave It on the Mountain

Afterlife: For Vivian Suter, exposure to the elements is part of her practice nterview by Lauren O’Neill-Butler

5 mins

Skin of the Real

Exploring dreams and reality in the art of Kaari Upson, on the occasion of her first retrospective at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

6 mins

Three Galleries to Watch in New York

Dossier: The next wave of the city’s art world is taking shape in spaces that champion risk-taking and new voices. We profile three galleries, Francis Irv, Soft Network, and KAJE, to look out for as they redefine the scene

10+ mins

LOTUS L.KANG

Profile: At 52 Walker, the artist expands her sculptural grammar, exploring diasporic time, material transformation and the body as a site of flux

8 mins

'You were following me and I was following you,but neither of us knew where we were going!'

Conversation: Ahead of her solo exhibition at K21 in Düsseldorf, Julie Mehretu speaks with her longtime friend and collaborator Nairy Baghramian about their shared thinking around space and abstraction, and how art becomes a language for survival

9 mins

Don't Mind if It Smokes

Essay: Novelist and poet Gertrude Stein, a champion of avant-garde practices in her lifetime, continues to inspire contemporary artists and writers

9 mins

Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing, 1960-91

Large panels filled with pages of zestfully handwritten notations set the tone for 'Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing, 1960-91' at Kunsthalle Wien.

5 mins

Carl Cheng

On the last March weekend of 1988, visitors to Santa Monica State Beach witnessed something peculiar: a 14-tonne concrete roller, Carl Cheng's Santa Monica Art Tool (1988), embossing the sand with an aerial view of a Los Angeles-inspired metropolis.

2 mins

Shilpa Gupta

In his treatise on literature’s relationship to loss and the limits of representation, The Writing of the Disaster (1980), Maurice Blanchot suggests that ‘[w]hoever writes is exiled from writing, which is the country ~ his own - where he is not a prophet’.

2 mins

Postcard from New York

Out of Office: Art criticism hits the dancefloor

1 mins

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Frieze Magazine Description:

Publisher: Frieze-Publishing

Category: Art

Language: English

Frequency: 45 Days

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.