How to stop worrying and love the ‘content crunch’

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The first India Art Summit prompted timely debates about artistic freedom on the subcontinent

Keeping fit, autonomy, disappointment and art criticism

Are reproductions of art works helpful, or do they confuse our experience of the real thing?

On the death of David Foster Wallace, a writer who reflected upon the joys and complications of language and living

A re-print of General Idea’s radical, now defunct FILE Magazine celebrates its idiosyncratic brilliance

How Western pop music is being used as ‘touchless torture’ by the American military

Various venues, Shanghai, China

Various venues, Liverpool, UK

New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA

September Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, USA

Guandong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Various venues, Copenhagen, Denmark

Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico

City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand / Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

Parasol Unit, London, UK

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

White Cube, London, UK

Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India

ZieherSmith, New York, USA

BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Kate MacGarry, London, UK

Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, USA

doggerfisher, Edinburgh, UK

Gasworks, London, UK

STORE, London, UK

Elizabeth Dee, New York, USA

The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada

UBS Art Gallery, New York, USA

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

The Glaswegian novelist and artist answers questions about his approach to art, life and literature

eds. Daniel Birnbaum and Isabelle Graw (Sternberg Press, Berlin and New York, 2008)

Conlon Nancarrow (Other Minds, 2008)

Berlin, Germany

Magazine (Virgin/EMI, 2008)

John Waters, Hammersmith Apollo, London, UK

Basic Channel (Basic Channel, 2008)

Tim Etchells (Heinemann, London, 2008)

Radiohole, The Kitchen, New York, USA

In an ongoing series frieze asks curators, artists and writers to list the books that have influenced them

Deyan Sudjic (Penguin, London, 2008)

Videos, hoods, a ‘period eye’; surrealism and surveillance

Political engagement in art from the USA and Silvia Kolbowski’s ambitious new work

What do you like the look of? My son’s beauty sleep

Richard Serra talks about the evolution of his ideas and his plans for the future

Begonias, the lure of travel, endless writing and an unfinished book

In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice

Ambiguity, concealment and eroticism lurk in the shadows of Victor Man’s paintings and installations

From participatory projects to socially mindful curating,Harrell Fletcher explores the role art plays in human relations

Artist Daria Martin on the evolution of an artwork

The elegant aesthetic of Matthew Brannon’s pictures and sculptures belies a witty, acerbic take on the human condition

Sound and form: grasshoppers, vocal canons and communicating with the dead

Melik Ohanian’s aim to ‘question the operative mode of the exhibition’ is apparent in his complex, multimedia project

Institutional critique and collective authorship; money, fruit and Robbie Williams

Despite problems, the city offers a thriving contemporary art scene, breathtaking architecture and extraordinary food