How art can weave into life and vice versa

A specially commissioned project

The many ways of owning an image

Sometimes no art is better than more art

What happens when images float free from the text they illustrate?

An Australian photography festival highlights the relevance of photojournalism at a time when the medium is in crisis

Despite their contributions, female gallerists have historically been under-recognised. A new book seeks to make amends

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

Bruce Altshuler et al. (eds.) (Phaidon, London and New York, 2008)

Michael Fried (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2008)

Geoff Dyer (Canongate, Edinburgh, 2009)

Antony and the Johnsons (Rough Trade, 2009)

Paavoharju (Fonal, 2008)

(RCA Legacy, 2008)

What does it mean to be a professional artist?

For the past 40 years, the elusive artist David Hammons has explored race, creativity and politics – without gallery representation

Working in the field of art makes it very difficult to draw a line between a professional and private life. What’s the best way forward?

Boris Groys in conversation with Brian Dillon

Sedimentation and submersion; the effects of images on the past, the present and the future

Dreams, songbirds and slimming; the imaginative and temporal possibilities of reduction

Blood, thread and cow dung; gender politics, myth and mysticism

What are the reasons for television’s uneasy relationship to art?

Janette Laverrière on politics, being a woman, utility, mirrors and her collaborations with artist Nairy Baghramian

Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA

Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

LUX, London, UK

Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany; Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA

Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK

Iasi, Romania

Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, USA

Nottingham Contemporary, UK

Galerie STAMPA, Basel Switzerland

Parsons The New School of Art and Design, New York, USA

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland

Picture This, Bristol, UK

Ballroom Marfa, USA

Peter Blum and Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, USA

Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy

Americas Society, New York, USA

Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium

Mother's Tankstation, Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

Lombard-Fried Projects, New York, USA

The Crypt, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, UK

Franz Ackermann is an artist living and working in Berlin and Karlsruhe in Germany. He is currently participating in the Tate Triennial in London and will have a solo show at Kunstmuseum Bonn in December 2009.