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Critic's Guides / Preview of the 2022 Venice Biennale Part One: National Pavilions

The frieze editors select the projects they are most looking forward to at the National Pavilions

BY frieze | 13 APR 22

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Critic's Guides

Critic's Guides / Preview of the 2022 Venice Biennale Part Two: National Pavilions

The frieze editors select the projects they are most looking forward to at the National Pavilions

BY frieze | 14 APR 22

Critic's Guides

Critic's Guides / A Preview of the 2022 Venice Biennale: Off-Site Projects

The frieze editors preview a selection of the Biennale’s off-site projects

BY frieze | 14 APR 22

Critic's Guides

Critic's Guides / Preview of the 2022 Venice Biennale Part One: National Pavilions

The frieze editors select the projects they are most looking forward to at the National Pavilions

BY frieze | 13 APR 22

Opinion

Opinion / The Venice Biennale’s Forgotten Female Surrealists

Hettie Judah on five spirit mediums, political agitators, self-taught outsiders or surrealists that ‘bite back’ in Cecilia Alemani’s Venice exhibition

BY Hettie Judah | 13 APR 22

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Books , Opinion

Opinion / ‘Translating Myself and Others’ Looks at Unspoken Aspects of the Practice

Released this month, Jhumpa Lahiri's new book explores her relationship with the Italian language as a writer and translator

BY Anandi Mishra | 11 MAY 22

Opinion

Opinion / Lloyd Suh’s ‘The Chinese Lady’ Favours Shallow Prompts over Concrete Action

A new production, playing at New York’s Public Theater, traces anti-Asian violence in the US but relies too heavily on anti-racist tropes

BY Harley Wong | 06 APR 22

US Reviews

US Reviews / Nora Turato’s ‘pool5’ Asks Us to Stop Making Sense

In her new performance at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the artist presents found language as a way of tapping into our collective anxieties

BY Marko Gluhaich | 18 MAR 22

Film , Interviews , Opinion

Interviews / ‘The Native and the Refugee’ Shares Narratives of Resistance

Artists Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny on their multimedia project, which investigates the parallels between North American Indigenous reservations and Palestinian refugee camps

BY Andreas Petrossiants, Matt Peterson AND Malek Rasamny | 14 MAR 22

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Film , Opinion

Film / Pedro Almodóvar Reckons With Spanish Historical Memory

In Parallel Mothers (2021), the director delves further into the difficulties of Spain's political past

BY Tommy Greene | 09 MAR 22

Film , Opinion

Film / ‘Freda’ Sees Haiti Through a Black Feminist Lens

Gessica Généus’s feature film debut tells a touching story about a young woman’s struggle to find hope in a country full of despair and violence

BY Terence Trouillot | 07 FEB 22

Film , Opinion

Opinion / The Gains and Losses of Online Film Festivals

Matt Lloyd Turner reviews IFFR’s Tiger Shorts Competition – programming focused on collectivity – to see what changes when viewed on a computer screen

BY Matt Lloyd Turner | 04 FEB 22

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Books , Opinion

Opinion / Gary Indiana Writes Like a Bad Boy Moralist

The writer’s new collection of essays repositions Indiana as a prescient analyst of US art and politics

BY Daniel Felsenthal | 31 MAR 22

Books , Opinion

Books / Kirsty Bell’s ‘The Undercurrents’ is a Protest Against Repression

Part memoir, part literary portrait, the author’s new book on Berlin goes beyond familiar narratives of the German capital

BY Mitch Speed | 10 MAR 22

Books , Opinion

Opinion / Hannah Black’s Leftish Political Fable

The artist and author’s new novella, ‘Tuesday or September or The End’, imagines an alternative collective future

BY Travis Diehl | 14 MAR 22

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Music , Opinion

Opinion / Rediscovering Moki and Don Cherry’s Utopian Visions

‘Organic Music Societies’ shows the nomadic world the late American jazz icon and Swedish artist created for their friends, collaborators and children, Neneh and Eagle Eye Cherry

BY Anton Spice | 14 APR 21

Music , Opinion

Opinion / Dalit Rap Is India’s New Musical Vanguard

Musician Sumeet Samos on how Dalit music has helped mobilize against caste violence and institutional discrimination

BY Sumeet Samos | 22 MAR 21

Music , Opinion

Opinion / Larry Achiampong on Militancy and Protest

The artist speaks with Olamiju Fajemisin on the legacy of Rock Against Racism in the UK

BY Olamiju Fajemisin | 19 MAR 21

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Opinion

Opinion / How Can Galleries Support Artist Sex Workers?

As ‘Decriminalised Futures’ opens at London’s ICA, members of Babeworld draw on their own experiences to examine the parallels and ethics of organisations working with artist/sex workers

BY Babeworld | 24 FEB 22

Profiles

Profiles / Remembering Dan Graham’s ‘Art of Life’

The late artist and writer radically reconceived the relationship between art, artist and audience.

BY Asad Raza | 25 FEB 22

Opinion

Opinion / The Ugly Provenance of Kunsthaus Zürich's Collection

Amidst public criticisms, open letters and Miriam Cahn pulling her work, Kito Nedo explores why Switzerland’s largest art museum is still displaying Emil Bührle's controversially acquired collection

BY Kito Nedo | 08 FEB 22

Interviews , Opinion

Opinion / Tauba Auerbach’s Architecture of Connectivity

On the occasion of Auerbach’s survey exhibition at SFMOMA, the artist speaks to Fanny Singer about disputed science experiments and irregular approaches to artmaking

BY Fanny Singer AND Tauba Auerbach | 01 FEB 22

Opinion

Opinion / A New 'Real World' Reaffirms Reality TV's Portentous Effects

The series reboot is a solemn reminder of the tribulations that come from being under the voluntary and constant scrutiny of the roving lens

BY Ian Bourland | 21 JAN 22

Opinion

Opinion / Frieze Editors Look Ahead to Arts in 2022

From accessibility rights to environmentalism, three frieze editors look ahead to what should change in the art world in 2022

BY Carina Bukuts, Marko Gluhaich AND Vanessa Peterson | 21 JAN 22