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Opinion / Michaela Coel Makes Us Feel Less Alone

Coel's show ‘I May Destroy You’ daringly takes on the intricacies of sexual violence

BY Skye Arundhati Thomas | 24 JUL 20

Opinion

Opinion / Michaela Coel Makes Us Feel Less Alone

Coel's show ‘I May Destroy You’ daringly takes on the intricacies of sexual violence

BY Skye Arundhati Thomas | 24 JUL 20

Opinion

Opinion / Michaela Coel Makes Us Feel Less Alone

Coel's show ‘I May Destroy You’ daringly takes on the intricacies of sexual violence

BY Skye Arundhati Thomas | 24 JUL 20

Museum & Politics

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Opinion / Fake Solidarity from Corporate Social Media

Patriotic imagery and calls for ‘togetherness’ distract from grass-roots demands for systemic change

BY Orit Gat | 04 JUN 20

Opinion

Opinion / To Stop the Auction of Looted Art, International Law Must Change

The Christie’s Paris sale of two stolen Igbo sculptures is proof of a racist double standard in European restitution law

BY Ayodeji Rotinwa | 10 JUL 20

Interviews

Interviews / Yvette Mutumba on Why Decolonizing Institutions ‘Has to Hurt’

Pablo Larios speaks with the Stedelijk Museum’s newly appointed curator-at-large about institutional accountability

BY Pablo Larios | 06 JUL 20

Opinion

Opinion / Hamed Sinno on Pride and Mourning in the Middle East

The musician remembers coming out in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War and the recent death of Egyptian queer activist Sarah Hegazi

BY Hamed Sinno | 26 JUN 20

Film & Television

Opinion

Opinion / A 14-Hour Documentary on Women Filmmakers Corrects the Canon

Mark Cousins’s ‘Women Make Film’ celebrates 130 years of cinema by 183 female directors

BY Jennifer Higgie | 30 JUN 20

Critic's Guides

Critic's Guides / These Films by Black Filmmakers are Free to Stream

From a kaleidoscopic portrait of Alabama to a documentary about police violence in the UK, frieze contributors select four must-watch films

BY frieze | 24 JUN 20

Profiles

Profiles / Luther Price, from Here to Eternity

Bradford Nordeen remembers the late American filmmaker’s carnality, decay, hurt, humour and so much excruciating beauty

BY Bradford Nordeen | 19 JUN 20

Opinion

Opinion / Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’ and the Racist History of the US Military

In the director’s sweeping new Vietnam War film, it is never clear ‘who is the colonizer and who is the colonized’

BY Ian Bourland | 19 JUN 20

Music

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Opinion / Too Slow, Too Fast: Lockdown's Changing Tempo

For David Grubbs, an onrush of music has led to a rethinking of musical ‘speed’ itself

BY David Grubbs | 24 JUN 20

Interviews

Interviews / Perfume Genius: ‘I Am Conjuring a Feeling and Magnifying It’

The singer discusses sex, dancing and Elvis on his new album, Set My Heart on Fire Immediately

BY Amy Sherlock | 29 MAY 20

Opinion

Opinion / Lindsay Lohan’s Eternal Return

Can her new single, ‘Back to Me’, resurrect the career of Hollywood’s favourite fallen idol?

BY Rosanna McLaughlin | 28 APR 20

Latest

Opinion

Opinion / Glamour and Resistance in Shola von Reinhold’s ‘Lote’

Decadence, dazzle and decoloniality in this debut novel about the search for a forgotten Black modernist amidst the Bright Young Things of 1920s Britain

BY Skye Arundhati Thomas | 17 JUN 20

Opinion

Opinion / The Sinister Intimacy of Raven Leilani’s ‘Luster’

In the author’s debut novel, ‘the threat of a sharp edge is on every page’

BY Haley Mlotek | 15 JUL 20

Opinion

Opinion / Notes from the Bunker: Re-Reading Jacqueline Harpman

A bleak tale of a girl raised in isolation, ‘I Who Have Never Known Men’ takes on new meaning amidst the current wave of lockdown narratives

BY Haley Mlotek | 08 JUN 20

Opinion

Opinion / Jerry Saltz Gives Good Advice

The critic’s folksy guide, How to Be an Artist, includes some valuable insight on the creative process

BY Dan Fox | 29 APR 20

Technology

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Opinion / How Viral Video Games Model Pandemics

As COVID-19 intensified, video games about disease spread

BY Lewis Gordon | 13 MAY 20

Opinion

Opinion / Looking for Texture in Online Viewing Rooms

As physical spaces begin to re-open, virtual platforms need to add something to the art experience

BY Kyle Chayka | 26 JUN 20

Opinion

Opinion / Graphic Content: How Visualizing Data Is a Life-or-Death Matter

A statistician and a novelist on the links between dataviz and storytelling

BY Helen DeWitt | 03 JUL 20