Shane de Lange’s weekly analysis of media design — both past and present, print and online — from South Africa and around the world.

New launch Epoch is a bold new magazine combining past and present in an attempt to cross-pollinate disciplines and eras. It’s editor-in-chief is Francesca Gavin, an editor, writer and curator whose name has graced multiple magazines across art, creativity and fashion. This is the first magazine she has launched.

‘The more the activist agitates within [familiar cultural defaults], the more the noose tightens.’ – Keller Easterling

Simone Fattal talks to Negar Azimi about her archaeological and formal explorations in collage, paint and sculpture; Pablo Larios investigates how the Bauhaus is being decentred from the Western canon; Cal Revely-Calder pens a picture piece on Samuel Beckett’s Gucci bag; and Hannah Black, Howie Chen, Jamillah James, Ajay Kurian and Suhail Malik share their sobering glimpses into how the project of artistic freedom has been co-opted by the far right.

Out Now. Frieze Issue noº 162.

The May issue of frieze features a visual essay by Heji Shin; a series of open letters to Adrian Piper; an interview with Maria Hassabi; David Salle's fan letter in praise of George W.S. Trow’s prescient commentary on American culture; and monographs on Ruth Asawa, Than Hussein Clark and Madeline Gins.

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Founded in 2002 in Naples and now based in Rome, T293 takes a challenging approach to exhibiting and representing emerging international artists

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‘I somehow have this sense of history – of the now being history.’ – Wolfgang Tillmans