Frieze #248 Jan./Feb. 2025

In the January/February issue of frieze, writer Philippa Snow pens a tribute to artist Linder ahead of her retrospective at the Hayward Gallery, London. Plus, Emily LaBarge, Lucy Ives, Amy Sillman and editor-in-chief Andrew Durbin dedicate a Festschrift to Joan Mitchell in honour of the artist’s centenary.

1,500 Words: Linder

‘There is something powerful about a woman who is capable of caring about style and substance, embodying beauty and expressing a beastly kind of anger.’ Philippa Snow reflects on the lasting influence of the artist’s feminist photomontages.

Festschrift: Joan Mitchell

‘Some strokes are lucky, some are unlucky; Mitchell paints over the unlucky ones, and then keeps going through this sea of unknowing that is making a painting.’ Four writers and artists celebrate the life and bold artistic practice of the late American painter.

Also featuring  

Zoë Hopkins profiles artist Renée Green ahead of her first major solo museum presentation in the US at Dia Beacon, New York. Joshua Segun Lean pens a thematic essay on the complicated politics of biennials. Plus, as he gears up for a major solo exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Tarek Atoui speaks to musician C. Spencer Yeh about the role of education, collaboration and hospitality in his work.

Columns: Disobedience

Iarlaith Ní Fheorais profiles P. Staff, whose discomforting practice interrogates quotidian violence, Kiri Dalena outlines the revolutionary power of speech as activist retaliation, Shiv Kotecha highlights Bassem Saad and Sanja Grozdanić’s performance Permanent Trespass (Beirut of the Balkans & the American Century)[include date of work], poet Holly Pester reviews Alva Gotby’s upcoming book, Feeling at Home (2025), which tackles the contemporary housing crisis, Andreas Petrossiants interviews Beatriz Santiago Muñoz on the potential of nonsense and disorder.

Finally, ahead of Paul McCarthy’s exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, London, Jonathan Griffin looks at his disturbing new video A&E, Adolf & Eva / Adam & Eve, The Counter 2, 28:32 (2024). Plus, Amy Sillman contributes to our series of artists’ ‘to-do’ lists and associate editor Chloe Stead pens a postcard from Berlin.