Contributor
Sean Burns

Sean Burns is an artist, writer and assistant editor of frieze based in London, UK. His book Death (2023) is out now from Tate Publishing.

Angel Lambo speaks to frieze Assistant Editor Sean Burns about his documentary film profiling the community and architecture of two legendary residential blocks

BY Angel Lambo AND Sean Burns |

Mariama Attah, Anna Frances Douglas and Jeremy Millar revisit John Berger’s famed television series and book

As ‘Fugues in Colour’ opens at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, the painter speaks to Sean Burns about Michelangelo’s influence and how murals can upend the commodification of painting

BY Sean Burns |

Marlene Dumas triumphs at Palazzo Grassi and Pauline Curnier Jardin upends the Biennale’s exclusivity

BY Sean Burns |

From neo-surrealist painting to coarse conceptualism, three frieze editors discuss the year in art

These are the best exhibitions of the year – from a chronically overdue retrospective of Paula Rego to a debut offering of obfuscated, sexualised sculpture by Jack O’Brien

BY Sean Burns |

What role did the institution play in photography’s ascent?

BY Sean Burns |

The best exhibitions on view during the fair – from Doron Langberg’s splashy gay paintings at Victoria Miro to Theaster Gates’s homage to clay at Whitechapel Gallery

BY Sean Burns |

Is contemporary art a reaction to social, political and local specificities or is it active in creating new utopic, progressive impulses? The BAS9 aspires to ask both

BY Sean Burns |

Carlos Anguera Jover, Alisa Petrosova and Leyla Yenirce chat with Sean Burns about home studios, slowing down and the end of institutional power

In the first of a series of events partnered with MUBI, the artist discusses love, empathy and sexuality in Glazer’s 2013 masterpiece

BY Sean Burns |

The artist speaks to Sean Burns about her polarising public sculptures and capturing the spirit of her subjects

BY Sean Burns AND Maggi Hambling |

Frieze editors discuss the different trends in digital exhibition-making, from end-of-world scenarios to community-based initiatives

In a culture so fixated on image, Sean Burns explores why what’s beyond ‘the look’ is more important than ever

BY Sean Burns |

From an exhibition of Francis Bacon’s ‘beasts’ to Terrence Malick’s film on the life of Christ, these are the top picks for the year

The gender and sexuality theorist speaks to Sean Burns about his book, ‘Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire’, and why gay men are a fast lane for capitalism

BY Sean Burns |

With the industry having been continuously overlooked by the UK government’s COVID-19 response, frieze charts a disastrous year for nightlife

BY Sean Burns |

In homage to Italo Calvino’s ‘Six Memos for the Next Millennium’, artists from Kara Walker to Collier Schorr, explore his six artistic virtues 

BY Sean Burns |

In the latest episode of frieze’s Autumn Sessions, the two friends play and discuss records that create or bridge distance

BY Sean Burns |

Dawn Mellor’s new mural in the north London suburb of Brent celebrates the star in all of his queer glory  

BY Sean Burns |