Frieze (magazine)

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frieze
Editor Andrew Durbin
Categories Art magazine
Frequency8 issues per year
Founder Amanda Sharp
Matthew Slotover
Tom Gidley
First issue1991;33 years ago (1991)
CompanyFrieze Publishing Ltd.
CountryUnited Kingdom
Based inLondon, New York, Berlin
LanguageEnglish
Website frieze.com/editorial
ISSN 0962-0672

Frieze is an international contemporary art magazine, published eight times a year from London. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

The publication is part of the London and New York–based media and events company Frieze. Frieze comprises two publications, frieze magazine and Frieze Week, as well as international art fairs in London, Los Angeles, New York and Seoul. Its permanent exhibition space, No.9 Cork Street, is located in Mayfair, London.

Frieze is part of Endeavor.

History

Frieze was founded in 1991 [4] [5] by Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, with artist Tom Gidley. [6] [2] [3] The inaugural issue featured a Damien Hirst butterfly painting as its cover, and the magazine became closely linked with the Young British Artists movement of the 1990s. [6] Sharp and Slotover ceased direct involvement in editorial decisions in 2001. [7] In 2003, the year that the Frieze Art Fair was founded, Sharp and Slotover assumed the roles of Publishing Directors of the magazine, and Directors of the fair. [8]

From April 2011 to fall 2016, Frieze published Frieze d/e—a bilingual German/English quarterly magazine with its own editorial team and independent content. The magazine was edited and produced in Berlin.

In 2016, Endeavor acquired a reported 70%-controlling stake in Frieze, which includes its publishing, art fair and music interests. Simon Fox, formerly CEO of Reach plc, was appointed Frieze's first CEO on 2 April 2020. [9]

In 2019, long-time Frieze editorial director and author, Jennifer Higgie, stepped down from the magazine. Former New York–based senior editor, Andrew Durbin, was then appointed editor in chief.

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References

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