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. 

Issues published in January/February, March, April, May, Summer (June, July, August), September, October and November/December.

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.