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Frieze

Issue 256 - January/February 2026
Magazine

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.

CONTRIBUTORS

Editor's Letter

Frieze

Magali Reus • To Do: What's on the agenda for the art world's most booked and busy?

When Dusk Turns to Night • One Take: Following Widline Cadet's inclusion in Made in L.A., Edna Bonhomme reviews her surreal 2023 photograph Manyen Distans

Dare to Paint a Peach • The Shape of Shape: Art history becomes elastic in the sensuous and psychological works of Nicolas Party by Christopher Alessandrini

Catch and Release • The Shape of Shape: Magali Reus's fishing-lure sculptures play with the ‘flirtatious potential’ of silhouettes

Swing Time • The Shape of Shape: How Ulrike Müller is rewriting the art historical canon by Lauren O'Neill-Butler

Adaptable Architecture • The Shape of Shape: Pitupong Chaowakul's flexible designs envision cities built out of and despite disaster by Claudia Ross

Art, Unofficially • The Shape of Shape: Amy Sillman recounts the making of a form-defining exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art with collaborator Jenny Harris

Features

I Thought California Would Be Different • Oral History: In the early 2000s, a group of young artists from New York City opened the Mandrake, a DIY art bar in Culver City, California, that would become the watering hole – and beating heart – of the Los Angeles art scene for nearly two decades

SAM LIPP • Profile: For more than a decade, Sam Lipp has questioned what it means to picture flesh, desire and damage in paintings where the image itself becomes the body by Shiv Kotecha

‘I want things to be totally what they are, but for them to also trick you.’ • Interview: Carol Bove speaks to poet Ariana Reines about spiritual blind spots and the esoteric histories shaping her Guggenheim ‘Fifth Avenue era’

Fall into Ruin • A novelist reflects on Beverly Buchanan's eroding artworks as studies of memory and time

Scare Tactics • Essay: As Donald Trump seeks to transform Washington, DC, can the arts community survive an administration obsessed with culture? by Ian Bourland

Asia Pacific

Europe

Americas

Reviews

7th Made in L.A. • Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Sex in Space • Isla Flotante, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Derek Fordjour • David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Suzanne Jackson • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA

Elizabeth Catlett • Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Yasmine El Meleegy • Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, USA

Erin M. Riley • P·P·O·W, New York, USA

Jerónimo Rüedi • Bureau, New York, USA

Lu Yang • Amant, New York, USA

Abbs Akhavan • Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Victor Man • David Zwirner, London, UK

Stan Douglas • Victoria Miro, London, UK

Lisa Brice • Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK

Frances Stark • Neither, London, UK

Hayley Tompkins • The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK

Frank Sweeney • Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

41st EVA International • Various venues, Limerick, Ireland

Chalisée Naamani • Ciaccia Levi, Paris, France

Enrico David • White Cube, Paris, France

Lauryn Youden • CIRCUIT Centre d'art contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland

Ghosts: Visualizing the Supernatural •...

Formats

  • OverDrive Magazine

Languages

  • English