Artist Matthieu Laurette, critic Vivian Sky Rehberg and the prolific curator, collector and dealer Seth Siegelaub, who died in 2013 aged 71, discuss the legacy of Conceptual art, the origins of curating and how art history is made

Europe’s fastest-growing city is home to a supportive community of artists, curators and writers. From independent spaces in the Grønland neighbourhood and the influential Academy of Fine Art to OCA’s uncertain future and Renzo Piano’s divisive Astrup Fearnley Museet, Jason Farago and Milena Hoegsberg report from the Norwegian capital

The hermetic, inventive world of Thomas Scheibitz

Filmmaking as a ‘series of introductions’

The Japanese artist discusses photography and the viewer as an intermediary

How artists and curators have responded to upheaval in the Arab world, from 1967 to the present day

Keith Coventry’s fusion of cultural commentary and Modernist art

Cultural anthropology via impersonation, pageantry and apprenticeship

Dan Fox invited eight artists and artist groups to reflect on their relationships to curators and curatorial discourse

Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK

The pulp paintings of Vicente B. Ballestar

Q. What should change? A. Deregulated global financial systems, obviously. Nothing else would have quite the same impact on the prospects of so many people.

How do you define jargon?

At least five current TV shows include the word ‘girl’ in their title. What’s going on?

The collected writings of Richard Bartholomew, one of India’s pre-eminent art critics

The mutating activities of DIS

In a new occasional column, frieze asks a respondent to nominate the objects, people or ideas that have influenced them

Tate Modern and African art

Remembering Antony Balch, filmmaker and distributor extraordinaire

Richard Meyer’s new publication: What Was Contemporary Art?

From The Jazz Singer to Nick Cave

Withholding, covering up and glimpsing the secret world of objects