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Architecture

Unemployment, the tallest building in the world, the London Olympics, new galleries in Metz and Rome, the Shanghai World Expo and contrasting spa designs by Douglas Murphy and Oliver Elser

Biennials & Group Shows 2009

Looking Back

frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant biennials and group shows of 2009

Film

Stuart Comer and Rajendra Roy reflect on the best motion pictures and moving images of 2009

Design

Re-branding débâcles, online fonts, the closure of Gourmet magazine, the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus and a new film by Eugenia Bell

Dan Fox and David Grubbs look back at the highs and lows of 2009, including nostalgia, Alarm Will Sound and Terry Riley; Throbbing Gristle, Luke Fowler, Trembling Bells, Luc Ferrari and ‘Lust for Life’

State of the Art

Spirit Guide

The many uses of the Zeitgeist by Dan Fox

View from the Bridge

Talk, Talk

The trials and tribulations of the international lecture circuit by Robert Storr

Pretty, Pretty Good

Made in Berlin

Being a foreigner in Germany’s capital by Jennifer Allen

Philosophy

Reality Check

Philosophy in 2009: The Invisible Committee; speculative realism; an all-star conference on communism; new books from Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek by Mark Fisher

Books

Literary highlights of 2009, a poetry scandal, the Man Booker International Prize, artists’ writings and a new study on Robert Ryman by Amit Chaudhuri and Brian Sholis

Film

The best motion pictures and moving images of 2009 by Stuart Comer and Rajendra Roy

Design

Re-branding débâcles, online fonts, the closure of Gourmet magazine, the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus and a new film by Eugenia Bell

Music

The highs and lows of 2009, including nostalgia, Alarm Will Sound and Terry Riley; Throbbing Gristle, Luke Fowler, Trembling Bells, Luc Ferrari and ‘Lust for Life’ by Dan Fox and David Grubbs

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Looking Forward

Looking Forward 2010

frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they’re looking forward to in 2010

Looking Back

Emerging Artists 2009

frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose who they felt to be the most significant emerging artists of the year

Looking Back

Solo Shows 2009

frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant solo shows of 2009

Looking Back

Biennials & Group Shows 2009

frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant group shows and biennials of 2009

Looking Forward

Auckland & Sydney 2010

Two antipodean exhibitions, ‘Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon’ and ‘The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age’, will explore ideas ranging from the role of risk-taking to the complexities of geo-politics in making art by Nicola Harvey

Interview

UNP and The Building

Maria Lind and Dieter Roelstraete talk to Anton Vidokle about the informal, ‘free school’ initiatives for art that operated for two years in Berlin

Interview

Whitney Biennial 2010

Simply titled ‘2010’, and curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari, New York’s famous biennial is in its 75th year. Bonami talked to Dan Fox about ‘American-ness’ – and how, for the first time, the show will include more women artists than men by Dan Fox

3rd Moscow Biennale

Jean-Hubert Martin’s exhibition sought to mix Russian art with work from other cultures and different times by Christy Lange

10th Biennale de Lyon

Curator Hou Hanru turns to everyday spectacle for inspiration by Vivian Rehberg

10th Baltic Triennial

Turning to Vilnius for inspiration, ‘Urban Stories’ built complex narratives from fraught histories by Jennifer Higgie

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Nottingham Contemporary

David Hockney & Frances Stark by Martin Herbert

Sculpture Center

Mike Kelley & Michael Smith by Steven Stern

Fondazione Galleria Civica

Civica 1989–2009 by Alessandro Rabottini

Wilkinson Gallery

Dara Birnbaum by Sam Thorne

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

For the blind man in the dark room … by Chris Fite-Wassilak

Hauser & Wirth

Wilhelm Sasnal by Quinn Latimer

Tate St Ives

The Dark Monarch by Michelle Cotton

New Museum

David Goldblatt by Ara H. Merjian

Kunsthalle Zürich

John Miller by Felicity Lunn

Galeria Toni Tàpies

Manoeuvres/Maniobres by Jessica Lott

A Foundation

Ben Rivers by Jonathan Griffin

Harris Lieberman

Lisa Oppenheim by Anne Wehr

Institute of Contemporary Arts

Rosalind Nashashibi by Brian Dillon

Richard Gray Gallery

Jan Tichy by Jason Foumberg

Galerie Meyer Kainer

Verena Dengler by Jakob Neulinger

Studio Voltaire

Henrik Olesen by Andrew Bonacina

Ludwik Grohman Villa and Book Art Museum

Anabasis: Rituals of Homecoming by Goska Charylo

Lisa Cooley Fine Art

Erin Shirreff by Anna Gritz

Irish Museum of Modern Art

Alan Phelan by Maria Fusco

Taxter & Spengemann

Adam Putnam by Katie Kitamura

Galerie Cinzia Friedlaender

Ruth Laskey by Kirsty Bell

Hats Plus

Sam Porritt by Tom Morton

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Editors’ Blog

BHL falls for Neo-Kantians of Paraguay

It’s almost too good to be true. France’s (self-)declared national philosopher-as-action-man, Bernard-Henri Lévy – known by his initials BHL, both to adherers and…