Opinion | Frieze

Columnists / A Tale of Two Catfish: Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts

The debut novel, sugar-dusted with zeitgeist signifiers, satirizes the 21st-century urban bourgeoisie – but who is the joke actually on?

BY Jackson Arn | 12 FEB 21

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Comment / The Artists Fighting for a Different Future in Myanmar

From re-interpreting protest symbols to selling work to support striking civil servants, how artists are responding to the military coup

BY Nathalie Johnston | 19 FEB 21

Columnists

Columnists / Substack’s Lonely War on Publishing

The new subscription platform for writers is atomizing an already fragile cultural ecosystem

BY Lewis Gordon | 18 FEB 21

Opinion

Opinion / ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Captures the Complexities of Revolutionary Death

Skaka King's film on the life and assassination of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton exceptionally examines the ever-present interplay between race and capital

BY Ian Bourland | 16 FEB 21

Opinion

Opinion / Reasons to Be Optimistic: How Italy’s Art institutions Arose from the Pandemic

A country which was once the epicentre of COVID-19 has seen its art scene flourish thanks to the museums’ community-driven response to the crisis

BY Barbara Casavecchia | 12 FEB 21

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Opinion

Opinion / Did an Artist Rebrand the CIA?

With the US spy agency’s web redesign, Ian Bourland looks at the revolving door between the arts, entertainment and US policy

BY Ian Bourland | 18 JAN 21

Opinion

Opinion / The Kardashians Depart Reality

As the iconic reality series airs its 20th and final season, and amongst rumours of ‘Kimye’s’ divorce, Alissa Bennett explores how the Kardashians changed American culture – and themselves

BY Alissa Bennett | 08 JAN 21

Opinion

Opinion / Reconfiguring the Present: A 2020 List of Other Futures

The films and books that kept us afloat in a calamitous year

BY Anthony Hawley | 03 JAN 21

Film

Film / David Wojnarowicz Brings Us Closer to his Real Persona

The new documentary is packed with original footage and voice recordings from the late artist

BY Cassie Packard | 26 NOV 20

Opinion

Opinion / ‘His House’ and the Horrors of the UK Immigration System

Remi Weekes transposes the classic haunted house genre to a mouldering council flat inhabited by South Sudanese refugees

BY John Menick | 26 NOV 20

Opinion

Opinion / A New Chinese Video Game that Makes You Pay for Love

How Genshin Impact’s use of gambling and intimacy embody artist Lawrence Lek’s concept of ‘sinofuturism’

BY Lewis Gordon | 20 NOV 20

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Opinion / How to Be a Performance Artist

Glasgow-based performer Liv Fontaine’s top tips

BY Liv Fontaine | 10 SEP 20

Opinion

Opinion / Kyle Chayka on Patreon and New Artistic Funding Models

Does the crowdfunding platform live up to its promise to ‘change the way art is valued?’

BY Kyle Chayka | 15 SEP 20

Opinion

Opinion / Breaking the Art World's ‘Closed Circle’

Emerging alternative spaces led by artists of colour leave a stagnant gallery system behind

BY Ana Tuazon | 15 SEP 20

Interviews

Interviews / The Museum Inside an Egg

The founders of Guatemala City’s NuMu, Stefan Benchoam and Jessica Kairé, discuss how their program extends far beyond its shell

BY Evan Moffitt | 15 SEP 20

Opinion

Opinion / Frieze Editors Discuss What the Art World Has Learned in 2020

COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter were two of the major events that signalled the changes that may – and in many cases must – come next year

BY Andrew Durbin, Amy Sherlock, Evan Moffitt, Pablo Larios AND Terence Trouillot | 14 DEC 20

Opinion

Opinion / Frieze Editors Discuss What the Art World Has Learned in 2020

COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter were two of the major events that signalled the changes that may – and in many cases must – come next year

BY Andrew Durbin, Amy Sherlock, Evan Moffitt, Pablo Larios AND Terence Trouillot | 14 DEC 20

Opinion

Opinion / Frieze Editors Discuss What the Art World Has Learned in 2020

COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter were two of the major events that signalled the changes that may – and in many cases must – come next year

BY Andrew Durbin, Amy Sherlock, Evan Moffitt, Pablo Larios AND Terence Trouillot | 14 DEC 20

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Opinion

Opinion / The Revolutionary Potential of a ‘Caribbean Future’

A group exhibition at Pérez Art Museum Miami challenges apocalyptic forecasts for a region on the front lines of climate change

BY Monica Uszerowicz | 27 OCT 19

Opinion

Opinion / Black, Queer and Holy: The Many Shapes of Black Multiplicity

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on Little Richard, Édouard Glissant and unapologetic blackness

BY Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung | 09 JUN 20

Opinion

Opinion / A New Generation of R&B

Recent R&B albums by Kelela, Lafawndah, serpentwithfeet and Solange tune to newly radiant blues

BY Harmony Holiday | 19 MAR 19

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

Opinion

Opinion / Writing like Perseus

Describe a global crisis in 600 words? Too hard. But isn’t everything else irrelevant right now?

BY Elvia Wilk | 28 MAY 20

Opinion

Opinion / Sub Titles

The boom in cinema magazines dedicated to print

BY Erika Balsom | 24 APR 19