The Brazilian artist brought food, film, art and love to her social project

‘I was 13, with a group of friends, and it was my first time hearing anything so Black and British – and, also, so working class’

‘The world certainly wasn’t perfect but that night I didn’t have to contend with an unmadeness’

‘Some have mattered more to the living Jalal, others to the dead one indulging in jouissance’

‘I have always chosen to listen to my heart and stick to my convictions, rather than yielding to reality’

‘I felt as though I’d walked in on what the future of art-making could be: a curation of time and space between us and the world in which we exist’

‘When I read that essay, I literally feel some kind of space opening up: I can breathe’

‘Through the doors of underworld rose a mind structured by languages inherited from the dead’

‘It’s a tenacious act of enthusiasm within Europe’s changing political landscape’

‘I would like to dedicate this tribute to all of Zidane’s fans (of whom I am one)’

‘Never before has a document of an event given such a vivid sense of what things may look like after we are gone’

The artist creates a specially commissioned work for frieze in response to Yoko Ono’s legendary 1965 performance ‘Cut Piece’

‘These are photographs in which moments – and lives – are constantly moving from then to now, bodies finding echoes in the world around them’

‘Enemy Kitchen makes Iraqi culture visible in the US beyond war, producing an alternative discourse and social space.’

‘This is the passing of time visualized through a contrapuntal freezing of it’

‘Every Wednesday, we would drink and watch Italian masterpieces – Fellini, Pasolini, Visconti – without subtitles’

‘Burdekin was a feminist, speculative, dystopian writer of essential texts’

‘It would be easy to cry to this tune, but difficult to dance to it’

‘Her strange, thinking surfaces have become the artworks I think about the most’

‘At the first site, the freedom of the United States of America is honoured; at the second, the history of its immigrants is conserved’

‘The last time I felt maenadically enthusiastic was during this year’s Pride, marching down the streets of Milan under a scorching sun’

‘Enthusiasm leaks out from the possibility of how these things might all be together’

‘The Psychology of an Art Writer provides a beautiful account of Lee’s looking and feeling and thinking and writing about art’

‘What would Jac Leirner do?’

‘This performance, exquisite as always, is at once emotional and precise’

A series of specially commissioned drawings for frieze's 200th issue

‘I held (and hold) his ideas and ethics like a compass’

‘Your songs are always full of colour and samples, beats and melodies, dizzying rhythms and more melodies still’

‘A convenient metaphor for emptiness and desolation, the desert is the paradigmatic nowhere’

‘It reminds me of my formative years and a time of many firsts’

‘Hong allows revelations to emerge from the most unassuming descriptions of facts’

‘It offers up a lifetime’s worth of thinking about the incommensurate relationship between filmic time and time as it is lived and experienced’

‘With Brexit hanging like a lead weight above the city’s new forest of glass towers, the memory of the Horse Hospital’s stone floor feels grounding’

‘He created rhythmic patterns that sounded, in your mind or on his voice, both adamantine and feline at once’

‘Despite the efforts of Trump and his ilk to deny it, the truth is out there’

‘Too cool for life too cool for death’

‘I took his reviews in the Independent to be the baseline; what all art criticism looked like’

‘Perhaps the shroud I am looking for is embracing lost souls and helping them to return’

‘Majerus was driven by mass – calm and heavy like a smooth car – six cylinder bicycle – with no flat tyre’

A series of specially commissioned photographs for frieze’s 200th issue

‘The poet moves their hips like someone on a tram about to vomit’

A visual homage to the Netflix documentary

‘No other type of cinema in recent decades has worshipped reality in this intense manner’

‘It has created a space of inclusion in a patriarchal art scene in which the visibility of female practitioners was minimal’

‘Even with the softest breeze, it comes alive and gently plays with the world around’

‘Inside the cemetery, hundreds of names descend in chronological order, but time’s forward motion clearly does not signify progress here’

‘The way she stumbled on stage, with her smeared lips and perfect legs, appeared at once criminally affected and wildly persuasive’

‘Every two minutes, people upload more images to the internet than existed in total just 150 years ago’

‘In this false universe of positive gloss and shallow passions, where can a real enthusiasm be located?’

‘I stayed first for an hour, then whole afternoons and, eventually, days’

‘Here, the body becomes a ghostly mark in time, a blurring, a phantasm’

‘What triggered the initiation of the Association of Musical Marxists?’

‘The wide range of artists presented in this astonishing show was a provocation that will fuel many young curators and scholars in the coming years’

‘I don’t know how a poet becomes a poet. And I don’t think anyone else does either’

‘Piper reminds me that I must remain committed to both my language and actions’

With new work on view at Tanya Bonakdar, New York, a look back at the artist’s iconic Venice pavilion

‘In moments of intense friendship, pure enthusiasm is more than anywhere else possible’

‘It embodies the qualities of enthusiasm, enquiry and toe-curling earnestness that art can’t exist without’

‘The salient factor wasn’t ever its printedness; Dot Dot Dot just took its own form seriously to think about things we see and how’

‘In our current catastrophic political climate, we need Fisher more than ever before’

‘Contemporary art institutions should stop looking to museums or theatres as role models and, instead, learn from nightclubs’

‘Nelson is wilful and demanding, forever frustrated by the gap between expression and vision, as are all great artists’

‘Gillen suggests that New York is less a place than it is an open-ended idea’

‘Who’s Afraid of Barney Newman (1968) invokes a multiplicity of diasporic readings’

‘The contemporary global economy is based on flows and conversions of energy into information into capital’

‘Appointed by Barack Obama in 2009, Sotomayor is the fourth woman and the first Latina to serve on the nation’s highest court’

‘Through its transformations and multiple languages, the poem becomes a dark mirror that reflects the missing truth’

‘Its name tells you everything you really need to know: it’s big, it’s complex and it smashes things together.’

‘His work resembles a world from which the humans have departed; all that remains are the mute plastic things, marked with purposeless love’

‘The possibility of arriving at insights, even unsettling ones, makes the pursuit of art worthwhile and necessary’

‘Take the heat and the breadth and the air and the life and the longing and land it in your own back garden’

‘Even a piece of paper had a trajectory and a life: to be written upon; to be used as a tablecloth or to clean the table; to be burned for heat and to become ashes’

‘When I think about Kutcher and Moore, what comes to my mind is a vision of pure, halcyon happiness’

‘This ethereal portrait also miniaturizes Mofokeng’s quest for affinity and understanding in a world dogged by shadow’

‘Since Lucano was elected mayor in 2004, the town of Riace, located in one of the most impoverished regions of Italy, has welcomed thousands of refugees’

‘It’s a sinewy and organic thing, almost threatening, in an otherwise boring district of embassies and hotels’

‘Over the radio, he asked listeners a simple question: what is your favourite sound of Beijing?’

‘I have secretly kept two copies of this series for years’

‘It was exactly the right thing at exactly the right time’

‘The sheer farce of it. Wonderful. That was what made so much sense and felt so good’

‘His work opened a pathway to design for me that no architectural school or practice could’

‘His works are imbued with such rare emotional acuity and nuance that it is hard not to be first stunned and, then, deeply moved’

‘It’s all there: charm, humour, ethics, friendship’

‘I found it at my local used bookstore more than a month before its release date, only days after 9/11’

‘The show singlehandedly thrust Africa back into the culture of global contemporary art.’

‘I know no more perfect portrait of artist and muse’

‘Her work challenges the way 20th-century history has been shaped in our cultural imaginaries’

‘No other installation has come close to the swooning sensation of seeing Bourgeois’s work for the first time’

‘Purifoy conjured life from practically nothing: ten pairs of used trousers, discarded trainers, a few spare planks’

‘He wasn’t English, but he was playing an English game, the fag in the Establishment, a light entertainer, undisguised yet somehow unseen, an open secret’

We look back on 28 years of publishing by remembering what inspires us

‘Do you remember what that was like seeing great art and knowing nothing about its maker or context?’

‘These works render the real, estranged personalities of our present perturbing, alluring; exquisite’

‘The Western that heroized pioneers unsettling the West was moribund. Unforgiven, an anti-Western Western, buried it.’

‘I knew, while trying that chair, that I wanted whatever the future had to offer’

For all the camp and capering, Eddie and Patsy’s antics also have a plaintive, even existential tinge

‘A magical, fucked-up masterpiece’

‘After Kurzweil’s book landed with a thud in the centre of our culture, it was impossible not to address its claims’

Hall’s understanding of cultural identity allows us to deconstruct and reconstruct who we think we are

‘She introduced me to the borderland of craft, for which I count myself very lucky’

‘The people from whom I learn most are enthusiasts, who take my soul to places I never knew existed.’

Once eclipsed by the men in her life, the architect’s supreme originality and energy are slowly being recognized

‘Released following the musician’s death in 1993, the album is an extraordinary swan song: morose, comical and utterly preposterous’

‘To me, it offers a particular emotional experience – something like joyful grief’

‘If criticality indicates a desire for change, then surely the critic is actually an optimist’

‘I started to read Mayröcker’s work obsessively. She became one of the few writers whose every written word I have read’

‘It was a piece of long-term thinking that put aside political expediency for the future benefit of citizens’

‘If anything can be converted to DNA, then this interview could become a DNA portrait of you’

‘Hollis’s great skill is to reconcile frugality with generosity’

‘I keep returning to the work – even as it changes’ 

‘The bold, deep, shoulder-shaking beats of the new-jack sound era’

An exhibition at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, sheds new light on colonialist patterns and projections 

‘The acid test of anyone’s enthusiasm is just how boring it is’

A Beirut-based organization supporting Syrian filmmakers captures the response of contemporary art to the wars of our time

The inspirational founder of Germany’s Green Party and her untimely death 

‘In this era of social violence and the return of the irrational, has the interhuman sphere become, paradoxically, obsolete?’

For her exhibition at Sprüth Magers, Berlin, the artist explores the potential of indefinite loops

‘My sense was that a shift had happened in what is only now called fashion exhibition-making’

‘Chadwick relished combining provocative and problematic materials in order to probe the body and its boundaries’

‘Jones co-opts the male-on-male objectifying gaze of gay erotica and converts it to a female-on-female gaze’

‘It encourages you to ponder its exalted lineage while taking the piss out of you for doing so’

‘By changing oppressive patterns on many levels, the movement has much to say about feminism in the present moment’

‘Each hypnotic frame of No Home Movie lasts just long enough to allow our minds to wander, summoning recollections of domestic spaces’

‘Light was shone into the darkest corners of the continent to reveal the most wonderful traditions, which had been isolated by cold war ideologies and boundaries’

‘Tang’s action took place at a time when performance art was outlawed by the Singaporean authorities’

‘You have taught art within a history that is our own, with a language that is our own’

‘It’s the way he talks about his own death that amazed then and impresses today’

‘It was an architectural death mask of a domestic space and of a century of its inhabitants’

 ‘He is ruthless in pursuit of his vision as any great director must be; his powerful images are indelible’

‘It is Björk’s ambivalence to human relations that makes her liberality so poignant’

‘This is, perhaps, the best ending of any film, ever’

‘Sekula’s sentences have their own nautical rhythm that brings incommensurate scales of experience into sudden relation’

‘I first encountered Lialina’s piece in college and, as the years go by, I continue to return to and obsess over it.’

For her show at Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, the artist blends identities of religious saviour, politician, celebrity and cheap entertainer

‘Kanzi is proficient in Yerkish, a keyboard-based language that scientists invented to communicate with great apes’

‘Sometimes, we can’t see what we know’

‘The book reads as a collection of photographs captured by a self-recording camera’

An exhibition at Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, transports Sebastián Lelio’s award-winning film Una mujer fantástica into the gallery space

‘George Michael has always told the truth. But I don’t believe that truth. Freedom is invisible. It’s just a line in an ad’

‘Given today’s resurgent far right, Haacke’s exhibition serves as a model for resisting the present’

‘A year after its release, it was still a huge dancefloor anthem and I was entering a world that would dismantle what I thought I knew about life up until that point’

‘It showed the power of placing something dumb and ugly next to something glorious’

‘His complex works embody both figurative social realism and mystic spiritual abstraction’

‘This poetic work of propaganda helped to bring about a queer communist comradeship that spanned more than 6,000 kilometres’

‘I first saw it in a private screening room in my college library, deep in the suburbs of New England. It changed my life.’

‘Perry brings seemingly disparate fields into alignment with a precision that is brilliant and devastating’

‘In everything she does, Adele’s honesty is at the core of her vision’

‘The exhibition was one of the most formative and memorable things I’ve ever seen’

How artists use junkyard landscapes to forge an escape from materially saturated culture

‘Namatjira’s political leaders all look frozen, dull behind the eyes, whiter than white, and as if battling an internal war with their fakery and greed’

‘By its closing scenes, I felt compelled to stand up and clap’

‘I spend my life as a writer trying (failing) to approximate Oswald’s verbal economy of means’

‘Boom obsesses over every element of design – including the textures and scents of her books, as well as their appearance’

‘What our descendants will make of this object depends on what survives of us’

‘You invite us to forge a ‘we’ with you and your images, to empathize, nodding snorts of identification brimming with tears’

‘These are images that can move me to tears’

‘Its beautiful brutalism suits getting older: an ascetic retreat to watch small things come and go’

A retrospective at S.M.A.K., Ghent, explores the origins of the artist’s reduced visual language

A survey at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, views the artist’s oeuvre through the prism of the form he returned to constantly throughout his life

The artist's first US survey at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, sheds new light on the relationship between art and design

A rare survey at Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, demonstrates how the overlapping of dream and nightmare is far from exclusive to the US

For her very first solo show, the artist brings her own biography onto the walls of Glasgow’s Transmission Gallery

An exhibition at Gladstone Gallery, New York, shows the artist’s attempt to break out of step with time

An exhibition at Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, reveals how the artist uses the technique of collage to create an aesthetic of ambivalence

This year's edition of the FEMSA Biennial takes place in Zacatecas and reflects on the craft and industrial traditions of the Mexican city 

The artist’s first large-scale exhibition in China at the Long Museum, Shanghai, sheds new light on the sublimation of personal history in her work

The artist’s exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, ‘If and Only If’, inserts ‘an act of magic’ into the assembly line

Relics from the Valley of the Kings – by way of Hollywood – come to Solstice Arts Centre, Navan

The artist's first solo show at Galerie Imane Farès, Paris, uses mirroring and multiplication to explore perspectives of his hometown 

An exhibition at Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, raises questions about the photographic proof of events happening in the Middle East

For an exhibition at O-Town House, Los Angeles, the artist and filmmaker invited 31 friends to photograph artworks he gave to them

Two exhibitions in Barcelona and Sabadell explore the artist’s ever-changing styles and painterly references

An exhibition at Greene Naftali, New York, sees the artist prod at our ideas of ease, humour and convenience

Exploring the political importance of the human body at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

An exhibition at Auto Italia, London, shows the artist group's belief in the potential of visual language to infiltrate public discourse

An exhibition at LC Queisser, Tbilisi, highlights how the artist invents new forms of touching a canvas

A survey at Moderna Museet Mälmo shows how the artist has insistently challenged notions surrounding authenticity, identity and selfhood

An exhibition at Maureen Paley, London, explores the artist collective's well-known wallpaper 'Imagevirus' and its relevance today

An exhibition at Essex Street, New York, shows how closely Hill’s literary and artistic work is linked to her critique of domesticity

The artist’s first UK institutional exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, London, showcases the singularity of her oeuvre

An exhibition at Metro Pictures, New York, sees the artist explore the artistic potential in objects of everyday life

The ecstatic silliness of breaking the rules is evidenced in this show about the dancers, composers and artists who reshaped American art