Frog 10, May 2011.

Frog 10 was published in May 2011.

A lot of people are on the cover of this issue, photographed by François Decoster & Asma Kawatmi in Singapore.

This is a quite particular issue : we asked our authors to write either on something they saw and wanted to discuss, or on something they thought could happen in the future: a group show, a retrospective, in 2017 or 2034.

So did French art critic BERNARD MARCADE, writing on GUY DEBORD at the “Centre Oscar Niemeyer in Paris” —which does not exist yet.

BRUCE BENDERSON, once again contributing to Frog for our greatest pleasure, writes a rather cruel fiction he called “Pas loin du sublime” and chooses the as of yet non-existent “musée de l’art contemporain” in “Nome”. Heavily hidden behind “ALLEGRA MARASHINO-NUSCH” alias, great English Paris-based art critic and Frieze magazine contributor VIVIAN REHBERG reviews a projected show at the Château de Versailles —which could happen quite soon!

We removed the “archifrog” section because we felt the architecture content of the magazine did not have to be separated from the Arts content anymore. And we were proud to celebrate that decision with the brilliant FRANCOIS DECOSTER essay on the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore: a text of great literature that reminds us we got involved in art criticism (like PETER SCHJELDAHL or DAVE HICKEY) after the Baudelaire tradition, not after the anonymous blogs one. We are extremely proud to publish in this issue San Rocco magazine editor PIER PAOLO TAMBURELLI’s manifesto “Grey City”.

Artists have been very involved in this issue: MARK HANDFORTH did an extraordinary picture series for us on HERZOG & DEMEURON’s new building in Miami, while

Hollywood former costume designer and now Los Angeles painter KISTEN EVERBERG photographed for Frog PAUL WINSTANLEY’s show at PE1301. KAREN KILIMNIK gave us the first and only images she took of the house she conceived and is building for herself in America. MARINA FAUST shot her own show in Vienna.

A 40-page section opens this issue, focusing on PIERRE HUYGHE’s movie he realized after the three times four hours performance he did at musée des Arts et traditions populaires we reviewed in Frog 9. And a quite intense essay on “Big Tits” written by PAQUITA PAQUIN lights up the Chroniques section.

— REVIEWS

Pierre Huyghe

MNAM & Galerie Goodman, Paris

par Stéphanie Moisdon

par Èric Troncy

par Virginie Vuillaume

par Alo Paistik

Didier Marcel

MAMVP, Paris

par Éric Troncy

“THEM! aka ils@versailles”

Château de Versailles