frieze is an international contemporary art magazine.
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frieze is published eight times a year and is based in London. As well as essays, exhibition reviews and columns by forward-thinking writers, artists, critics and curators, the magazine includes music reviews, artist projects, interviews and sections on design and architecture.
frieze was founded in 1991 by Frieze Art Fair founders Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover with artist Tom Gidley. When frieze began both Sharp and Slotover served as editors, but ceased direct involvement in editorial decisions in 2001. In 2003, the year that Frieze Art Fair was founded, Sharp and Slotover assumed the roles of Publishing Directors of the magazine, and Directors of the fair. Sharp and Slotover maintain the overall direction of both the art fair and the magazine, but editorial decisions are made by the editors Jörg Heiser and Jennifer Higgie. In 2008, for the first time the talks programme at Frieze Art Fair was organised by the magazine editors.
In September 2007, frieze relaunched frieze.com. The magazine section of the website comprises the entire frieze archive as well as an editors' blog and online-only columns and exhibition reviews.
The Frieze Foundation is a non-profit organisation established in 2003 as a spin-off of frieze magazine. Funded by the European Commission’s Culture 2000 programme and Arts Council England, it supports contemporary art and is in charge of the curated programme at the Frieze Art Fair, comprising artist commissions, education, talks, films and music.
In 2003, Liam Gillick received a joint commission from Frieze Foundation and London Underground Platform for Art programme to create a set of posters to be put in unused spaces at Great Portland Street tube station.[1]