How the art world’s dismissal of the writer’s popular books reveals its own snobbishness

Join us as we count down the defining works that have shaped contemporary art since 2000

In his latest exhibition, Williams pairs vintage photographs with intimate self-portraits and film, creating works that resist simple interpretation

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

As museums embrace performance by queer artists, performers and curators debate the trade-offs of recognition

Its 2025 edition, ‘Shelter’, seeks to disturb our anthropocentric attitudes by swapping spectacle for subtlety

At London’s National Portrait Gallery, a retrospective spanning decades reveals a profound exploration of the body and an ongoing dialogue with western art history

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

At the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, the artist employs the visual language of BDSM to examine the human exploitation of horses

Other highlights include an intimate photobook by Coca Dai and Abdellah Taïa’s lyrical new novel

At Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, the artist’s cryptic compositions challenge our need for meaning in art

From an unfinished Danish magnum opus to the latest title by Annie Ernaux, frieze editors list the books they loved most this year

Dedicated to 100 years of surreal landscapes, this baggy group show at The Hepworth Wakefield hides its best works

From an exhibition that positions paintings as ‘Popstars’ in Tokyo to the inaugural group show of a new curatorial collective in Dubai

From a characteristically tongue-in-cheek Yoko Ono exhibition to a group show on the ‘Imaginary Institution of India’

From dynamic performance and moving image to several major biennials, four frieze editors discuss the year in art

Highlights also include Nat Raha’s new book and The Harlem Gospel Travelers’ latest album

In his first solo institutional exhibition at Centro Pecci, Prato, the artist’s intimate vignettes honour queer sensuality

An unsettling outdoor performance in Edinburgh combines live and pre-recorded voices to directly confront Conservative MP Suella Braverman’s incendiary rhetoric

The author’s latest book, documenting an attempt to revive an abandoned cinema in Hungary, teases out the magic charm of film