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Recent years have seen a rise in panel discussions about the demise of art criticism - while the birth of the curator-critic has passed largely unremarked by Jennifer Allen

Film and Television

No Country for Old Men's recent success at the Oscars heralds the return of the cowboy - a figure who, after decades of phenomenal popularity, had all but disappeared from the big, and small, screen by Mark Mordue

Life in Film

Hito Steyerl

In ‘Life in Film’, an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice.

Art Criticism

Reality in the Age of Aesthetics

What does it mean when artists create scenarios that rely on existing social realities, or when they actively enter a social realm in order to generate works of art? by Mark Nash

Monograph

War and Peace

Israeli artist Yael Bartana asks: ‘What is this place where I grew up?’ by Ronald Jones

Monograph

Alexander the Great

A new 16-disc DVD box set of Alexander Kluge’s films highlights the 30-year career of this influential German filmmaker, philosopher, author and media mogul by Bert Rebhandl

Monograph

Schorr edits Mikhailov

Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhailov has been documenting the inhabitants of his homeland for over 30 years. American artist Collier Schorr responds to his confrontational photographs by designing this layout and annotating his images

Monograph

Tales from the City

How we create architectural spaces that in turn define our social behaviour is a constant theme in the films of Clemens von Wedemeyer by Polly Staple

Focus

Duncan Campbell

The Troubles, Samuel Beckett, Joan of Arc, knitted club flyers and reconstructing the past by Martin Herbert

Focus

Hannah Rickards

Stars, thunder and birdsong; transformation and translation by Melissa Gronlund

Focus

Hany Armanious

Pragmatic metaphysics, painstaking copies and infinite pedestals by Adam Jasper

Focus

Guido van der Werve

Chopin, melancholy, pianos and slapstick by Jennifer Higgie

Monograph

Another Country

A citizen of both the USA and Palestine, Emily Jacir explores the limits and possibilities of exile and representation by Kirsty Bell

Monograph

Game Theory

The social experiments Artur Zmijewski documents in his provocative videos reveal disquieting aspects of human nature by Jan Verwoert

Questionnaire

Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien is a filmmaker and artist. He curated the current exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, ‘Derek Jarman: Brutal Beauty’ (23 February – 13 April 2008), which features his new film Derek. His film installation Fantôme Afrique (2005) is also on show at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara until 11 May 2008.