Q: What is art for?
A: To escape.

Sifting fact from fiction

Prisoners of conscience and creative acts

De Appel’s new course in art dealing

National identity and ‘global fiction’

Literature versus art history

Chilean director Pablo Larraín discusses the merging of fact and fiction in his films

A growing number of filmmakers, musicians and visual artists have begun to revisit the rave and jungle ecologies of the early 1990s

What does the term ‘gallerina’ symbolize?

The changing face of graduate exhibitions

The Mexican novelist lists the books that have influenced her

Are objects more real than words? Or, how poet and novelist Ben Lerner stopped being jealous and learned to love the virtual

The spaces between rumour, information and circulation

A portrait of the West Bank that fuses fact and fiction

How artists visualize political reality through the artifice of fiction

Studio pottery, anti-art, John Fahey and compost

Sisyphean tasks and the failed Utopias of Modernist architecture

David Levine, whose work embraces theatre, performance and video, discusses acting and identity

An excerpt from Men and Apparitions, a novel in progress

A 1913 children's book

How will stories be told in the future? frieze asks nine artists and writers to reflect on how narrative structures will change as technology advances

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France

The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK

Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

The group show of ‘painters’ painters’, curated by Eric Crosby and Bartholomew Ryan, focused on the persistence of formal abstraction but did not go on to ask why

A graphic novel specially commissioned by frieze

Is it an artist’s duty to bear witness to suffering? Journalism, documentary and the ethics of reporting