When patrons wrestle power from museum curators and directors, what does it mean for the public?

The ‘hand-bra’ technique as a metaphor for rhetorical self-reflexivity in the arts

Can a piece of writing ever precisely convey what the writer wants it to?

Wolfgang Voigt draws on Romantic landscape and classical music as much as technological minimalism

Thirty-five forms of contemporary creation, or how to identify an art work

frieze asks curators, artists and writers to list the books that have influenced them

The sophistication of Polaroid technology was not enough to save it from obsolescence – or nostalgia

frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice

Fritz Haeg (Metropolis Books, New York, 2008)

Alex Ross (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2007)

John Roberts (Verso, London, 2007)

Toumani Diabaté (World Circuit, 2008)

Vampire Weekend (XL Recordings, 2008)

Part 2: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues: 1970–6 (Soundway, 2008)

The Second Sentence of Everything I Read Is You, Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA

Whitney Museum of American Art and Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA

Various Venues, Berlin

Pompidou Centre, Paris, France

Beijing Commune, Beijing, China

Milton Keynes Gallery, UK

Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil

Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Chicago Cultural Center, USA

Battersea Arts Centre, London, UK

Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City, Mexico

Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, USA

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

BaliceHertling, Paris, France

Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, UK

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA

Artists responded to the first public Modernist sculpture in India at Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Broadway 1602, New York, USA

ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany

The Showroom, London, UK

Chung King Project, Los Angeles, USA

Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany

James Hockey and Foyer Galleries, Farnham, UK

International Center of Photography, New York, USA

Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Deitch Projects, New York, USA

The release of the film Chromophobia raises questions about authorship and appropriation

Marine Hugonnier’s films explore what the artist describes as an ‘anthropology of images’

Brian Griffiths’ installations and sculptures drag their historical baggage towards an imaginary future

Mark Lewis’ meditative films fuse pictorial tradition with the art of movement

Taryn Simon’s photographs of restricted locations reveal an unsettling side to the American Dream

Kris Martin’s explorations of faith and time employ myriad materials – from departure boards and novels to classical sculptures and watches

Phalluses, saddles and South Africa; handmade costumes and the Xhosa language

Touch and appropriation; film, dance and gesture

Abandoned factories and sad machinery; fantasy, reality and ambiguity

Something from nothing: decorated offices, reclaimed land, hope and anticipation

Rosalind Nashashibi's films and photographs observe the nuances of everyday life around the world

From frontier town to multicultural metropolis, the second-largest Australian city embraces a grass-roots approach to culture that weaves the experience of contemporary art into everyday life

What should change? The weather in Brussels