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Cassie Packard

Cassie Packard is a New York-based writer and assistant editor of frieze. She is a recipient of the 2024 Rabkin Prize for art writing and the author of Art Rules (2023).

From Shinro Ohtake’s exposed film sheets to an archive of Palestinian textile works, here are the shows frieze editors couldn’t forget

Powder Art Foundation’s executive director discusses the transformation of a ski resort into an open-air sculpture park

BY Alexandra Magnuson AND Cassie Packard |

From a major Jack Whitten retrospective at MoMA to a storytelling-focused SITE Santa Fe International, these are this year’s standout exhibitions

BY Cassie Packard |

The how, why and woes of distilling a quarter century of groundbreaking art into a single list

With a recursive, transmedia lens, the artist imagines the world of ‘delivery dancers’, now brought to life in a live, motion-capture theatre performance

BY Cassie Packard |

The show’s first international artistic director discusses manga, poetry and navigating local contexts

BY Hoor Al Qasimi AND Cassie Packard |

From a debut novel by Stephanie Wambugu to Maggie Nelson’s analysis of Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath, the frieze team recommend the new books they’re most excited about

On the occasion of the 2025 edition, curators Hallie Ayres, Lukas Brasiskis and Anton Vidokle discuss technologies of the spirit and holes in the canon

The artist on how narratives are born, the importance of hospitality and what sculptures need

In Collaboration with Korea Arts Management Service

For the artist, who is interested in those at society’s margins, the machines are ‘more than an artwork’

In Collaboration with Korea Arts Management Service

The artist’s show at Kunsthall Trondheim probes the stories we tell ourselves about oil – and proposes new ones

BY Cassie Packard |

At Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, the artist holds a speculative funeral for the glacier of their childhood

BY Cassie Packard |

From Foday Mannah’s crime debut to Ishion Hutchinson’s new essays, our editors pick the best reads for every kind of escape

An interview with the two curators of this year’s edition highlights the event’s ecological methodology and fusion of theory and praxis

The writer speaks about her new book of essays tracing the urgency and efficacy of artist-led protest over the past 60 years

Four US curators on what these wide-ranging attacks mean for their institutions and communities

Other highlights include artist Sin Wai Kin’s unnerving sitcom and a forthcoming book of essays by Hito Steyerl

BY Cassie Packard |

The meeting of environment and technology is front and centre in the Californian artist’s retrospective at Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

BY Cassie Packard |

Assistant editor Cassie Packard on confronting the toxicity that permeates our environments, bodies and lifestyles

BY Cassie Packard |