Matthew McLean is Senior Editor, Frieze Studios, based in London, UK.
From Swatches to Sarah Lucas, the founder of London’s The Perimeter on forming his collection – and why you won’t find him in a gallery’s DMs
The Berlin-based artist works across and between performance, text and image
The 'activist collector' on supporting women artists, museums after COVID-19 and what the art world can learn from Silicon Valley
The artist’s installation – based on the interior of a nearby gay cruising bar – invokes a haunted sense of refuge
Just ahead of her 80th birthday, an interview with the pioneering painter and highlight of the Chicago Tribute section
The artist’s exhibition at Migros Museum, Zurich, reflects on the political uses of platitudes and truisms
A recent exhibition at Carlos/Ishikawa, London, conjured an experience of being controlled within a carceral capitalist state
On the artist selected for the Deutsche Bank Wealth Management Lounges at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2019
From Marina Abramović to extinct tropical birds, seeing more than what’s there
Gucci and Frieze present the fourth film in the Second Summer of Love series, exploring Detroit and Berlin techno
For all the camp and capering, Eddie and Patsy’s antics also have a plaintive, even existential tinge
The Turner Prize-winning photographer’s set design for ENO’s new production asks: can the greatest horror be better communicated by the unseen?
Some thoughts on ‘Strange Days’, ahead of Frieze Music with Bang & Olufsen’s celebration of the UK premiere of Kahlil Joseph’s Fly Paper
The artist talks about the inspiration behind his gilded wallpaper-mounted installation at Frieze London
After the dissolution of their turbulent relationship, Oskar Kokoschka commissioned an accurately proportioned re-creation of Alma Mahler in 1918
Finding Trump-aping parallels with the extravagant, tragic story of Ludwig II, at Madragoa, Lisbon
An exhibition at CAMERA, Turin, illustrates photography's key role for the enigmatic polymath
Surreal currents, charged objects and deformed bodies in the work of four emerging British painters
The Frieze New York 2018 campaign maps the poet and curator’s Lunch Poems
The best films, books and shows focusing on representations of gay life in 2017
