In our first issue of the new decade, we look back on some of the best (and worst) of the last ten years and find a few reasons to be excited for 2020

What we were looking at (and what we missed) in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of frieze

As Blake’s most comprehensive retrospective to date closes at the ICA, Los Angeles, Shiv Kotecha examines the artist’s three-decade practice, which revels in the infinite variations of identity and pleasure

In collaborations with her community and family, Halsey leans towards the funky, the funny and the queer

Some suggestions for the International Council of Museums

A specially commissioned visual essay by the artist, ahead of his Hammer Museum retrospective

In the era of climate crisis, we all need to rethink how and why we travel

Why we’re excited about new works by Jamie Crewe, Sung Tieu, Rodrigo Hernández and Thảo Nguyên Phan

Pablo Larios highlights the damaging effects of network fatigue in contemporary art 

After a storied career documenting faraway places and ‘outsiders’ closer to home, the German experimental filmmaker turns the lens on her own life in her new feature, Paris Calligrammes

Founded in 2009, the app sparked a revolution in sex, dating and the social dynamics of the LGBTQ community

From Grumpy Cat to Pizza Rat, what the images we shared said about the world around us

The comedian’s aggressions are meant to produce pleasure, but often result in arguments and criticism

Co-working spaces provide corporate culture for people who don’t have a corporation

Boskovich wanted to inhabit a place that made no distinctions between sculpture and furniture, curation and decor, art and everyday life

Q. What could you imagine doing if you didn’t do what you do? A. Raising goats

The sculptor’s solo exhibition at Oakville Galleries blurs the boundaries between chance and artistic selection

The painter’s work, on view at Tina Kim Gallery in New York, focuses our sight while urging us beyond it

The 2013 album is a compelling record of our collective fracturing 

Fin de siècle squalor and sardonic masques in ‘Grand Hotel Abyss’, the 2019 edition of the annual Austrian festival

Dragons, spirits and transformations at Julia Stoschek, Berlin

An exhibition at SFMOMA, named for the 1990 geopolitical term, considers the relationship between art and activism since the fall of the Iron Curtain 

The artist’s work captures what it feels like to see your own body on the floor, in pieces, and how that might be the only way to survive having survived

The artist’s survey at LACMA showcases her dynamic engagement with the history of modernism and socio-political conflict 

Anders Dickson’s ‘Songs of Rain and Hobo Chili’ conjures the ephemerality of place

The artist’s feast is plentiful and sumptuous, but leaves us with a hefty bill and a heavy stomach

The artist’s solo exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation is a serene and spiritual survey of her five-decade practice 

The artist’s exhibition at Galerie Sultana, Paris, explores compassion as a means of resisting capitalism

The artist’s moving portraits of ‘unallocated’ auto workers in Lordstown, Ohio, on view at the Renaissance Society, celebrate the power of unions as job losses hit US manufacturing

Fragments that appear torn from boats and vessels are everywhere, as though charting a course through history and geography from one world into another

From a couture dress to a Soviet mural, the artist asks what counts as 'good' art

The cultural cost of accelerated growth in the German capital

The last exhibition planned by the artist herself carries on her strategic semiotic slips and disjunctions

Shannon Bool’s show at Kunstverein Braunschweig calls attention to the exoticising and objectifying vision of Le Corbusier

Tanaka’s retrospective at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, reveals humour and radicality in everyday things

 

With the current debate on art institutions’ reliance on private funding, the Dutch artist teaches us how to avoid becoming complicit in a company’s shady activities 

From storyboards to full-sized film sets, the artist’s show at Tim Van Laere, Antwerp, plays with cinematic techniques to make us believe in a constructed world

A new exhibition at Tramps reveals 40 years of hidden painting

At Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, Clark queers the historical record about a past cultural figure

At Blindspot Gallery, twin solo exhibitions use the weather to reflect on political oppression

The Berlin-based artist’s mid-career retrospective at Spain’s Reina Sofía is a free and self-determining triumph

The post-minimalist based her abstractions on one predicament - ‘I don’t know where I come from and I don’t know where I’m going’

At Nova Contemporary, Bangkok, the artist draws on ancient ritual to intervene in current Cambodian politics

At Berlin’s KW Institute, Chicago Imagism, corporeal feminism and bondage scenarios.

It’s tempting to read Haacke’s longstanding work of institutional critique as prescient. In fact, he’s been an astute observer for long enough to know that current scrutiny of museum ethics is well overdue

The artist looks to the life of Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, to foster a kind of kinship you can literally hold

This year’s edition of the French biennale asks how biological and economic developments inform one another

Sex, myth and history entwine in a display of the artist’s sketches, photographs and ephemera

An emporium of new-age junk and legal highs debases Marlborough London’s exhibition space

The artist’s exhibition at Delmes & Zander, Cologne, exposes society’s fear of sexually self-determined women

A new film documenting the destruction of an east London community centre drills into the deformation of Muslim subjects by the state

‘IF THE SNAKE’ shows a world caught in limbo – or hell  

Is this a show about the artist’s youth or is it about something bigger – landscape?