With the proliferation of museums, biennales and fairs, and the sheer amount of work now being made, shown, and sold, the art world has obviously changed substantially over the last 40 or so years. But what have been the most important shifts in art and the structures that surround it? frieze has asked 33 artists, collectors, critics, curators, educators and gallerists to respond.

In conversation with Marina Abramovic

Rubbish isn’t always a dead-end – sometimes it’s a beginning

Whether scrutinizing the machinations of TV news or the participatory pleasures of karaoke, Phil Collins’ photographs and videos place the role of the media centre stage

From her ‘Portable Parks’ to the ‘Living Library’, for over 30 years Bonnie Sherk has aspired to ‘expand the concept of art to include, and even be life’

Some questions seem so obvious they are almost never asked. With the proliferation of museums, biennales and fairs, and the sheer amount of work now being made, shown, and sold, the art world has obviously changed substantially over the last 40 or so years. But what have been the most important shifts in art and the structures that surround it? frieze has asked 33 artists, collectors, critics, curators, educators and gallerists to respond

Art has changed dramatically over recent decades – but many of these developments have been positive

Morgan Fisher engages with definitions of the filmic not only in cinema but within painting, video and photography

Some questions seem so obvious they are almost never asked. With the proliferation of museums, biennales and fairs, and the sheer amount of work now being made, shown, and sold, the art world has obviously changed substantially over the last 40 or so years. But what have been the most important shifts in art and the structures that surround it? frieze has asked 33 artists, collectors, critics, curators, educators and gallerists to respond

No depth, no illusions, just paint

Microcosmic particulars and macrocosmic leaps

Adrian Paci explores personal histories, highlighting their construction and re-staging – from filming the unveiling of a Madonna to selling electricity to fellow artists

Some questions seem so obvious they are almost never asked. With the proliferation of museums, biennales and fairs, and the sheer amount of work now being made, shown, and sold, the art world has obviously changed substantially over the last 40 or so years. But what have been the most important shifts in art and the structures that surround it? frieze has asked 33 artists, collectors, critics, curators, educators and gallerists to respond

Some questions seem so obvious they are almost never asked. With the proliferation of museums, biennales and fairs, and the sheer amount of work now being made, shown, and sold, the art world has obviously changed substantially over the last 40 or so years. But what have been the most important shifts in art and the structures that surround it? frieze has asked 33 artists, collectors, critics, curators, educators and gallerists to respond

On the occasion of his major retrospective at the the Guggenheim, New York, from issue 94, 2005, Tom Morton on Maurizio Cattelan

Since the late 1980s Maurizio Cattelan has been making darkly comic work that holds a mirror up to our pomposities, foibles and fears

Between the earth and the sky

The Crypt, St James Church Clerkenwell, London

Part two of the question ‘are curators artists?’ asks whether the visual
arts would be better served if curators modelled themselves on editors

Art is changing - into what?

Art criticism is no longer dominated by history and theory. Does this create space for curiosity and openness, or leave writers ill-equipped to describe the complexities of the present?

Q: What should stay the same? A: Nothing, everything can be replaced.

London to Dover

The recently opened Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo has abandoned traditional museum display in favour of high-tech interactivity. Does it work?

With its terrifying philosophical possibilities, time travel is still the most excellent adventure

British record label Ghost Box is releasing advanced electronica that makes dead men sing

The inspiration for sci-fi fantasists, underground storage facilities – born of Cold War paranoia – are now big business