Frieze

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.

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Editor’s Letter

Frieze

Mohammad Alfaraj • To Do: What’s on the agenda for the art world’s most booked and busy?

Song, Action, Desire • One Take: On the occasion of the M.F. Husain Museum’s opening in Doha, a look at his 1980 photograph of cinema hoarding in the streets of Chennai by Carlos Valladares

On the Road • Networks: SINDBAD Collective brings together generations of artists from around the Gulf, most recently in the back of a truck

Time to Reconnect • Networks: How the burner phone rewired connections across the Gulf

Open Terrain • Networks: How will Qatar shape our planet’s future?

The Changing Landscape • Networks: Sunny Rahbar reflects on the next generation of Dubai art spaces

Ancient Contemporaries • Networks: With date palms and desert oases, the films of Mohammad Alfaraj depict a Saudi Arabia in flux

I want the work to be based in a childish wonder.

Features

GROUNDED FUTURES • Roundtable: As the region continues to expand and transform at unprecedented speed, what would it mean to slow down and rethink ‘Gulf Futurism’? In this roundtable, artists, curators and gallerists consider two decades of accelerated development, shifting ecological systems, migration and rural-urban entanglements across the region

ALIA FARID • Profile: How growing up between Kuwait and Puerto Rico inspired artist Alia Farid’s investigation into the fiction of cultural borders by Maru Pabón

The Colour of Pearls • Tracing Gulf War afterlives through oil and cross-cultural aesthetics

‘When you’re working with craft, it requires your full attention and embodiment.’ • Interview: Ahead of Dana Awartani’s presentation at the Saudi Arabia Pavilion for this year’s Venice Biennale, the artist speaks to Fawz Kabra about repair, craft and the ethics of making

A Regional Turn • Essay: As international museums and projects proliferate across the region, Rahel Aima analyzes a wave of cultural institutions, collectives and artists who embody a collaborative, Gulf-first approach

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Reviews

Rays, Ripples, Residue • 421 Arts Campus, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Ala Younis • NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE

Serge Attukwei Clottey • Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana

Archie Moore • Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

Som Supaparinya • Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand

The Great Camouflage • Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Behind the Counter • Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc, Czech Republic

18th Rome Quadrennial • Palazzo Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

Luciano Castelli • Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger, Basel, Switzerland

Beatrice Bonino • Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, France

Libasse Ka • Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium

Annika Kahrs • Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

Lunita-July Dorn • Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany

Deviant Ornaments • Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, Norway

Richard Walker • CORPUS, Cambridge, UK

Harold Offeh • Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK

Jasleen Kaur • Hollybush Gardens, London, UK

Joseph Yaeger • Modern Art, London, UK

Lucy Raven • Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Will Rawls •...