Ira Sachs’s absorbing biopic balances monotony with glory in the life of the cult photographer

Speaking about his newest film, the Iranian director reflects on filmmaking under oppression, the art of performance and the dark humour that keeps his work alive

Jude Law portrays Vladimir Putin in Olivier Assayas’s latest, while Kathryn Bigelow presents her first film in eight years

To celebrate the release of their new novel, The Silver Book, the author shares a list of literary works that have inspired them

From a debut novel by Stephanie Wambugu to Maggie Nelson’s analysis of Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath, the frieze team recommend the new books they’re most excited about

In These are Addressed to You, the writer and artist reflects on the meaning of letters, correspondence and the epistolic form

To accompany her profile in the latest issue, the artist curates a playlist of 49 personally meaningful tracks

A selection of cinematic sounds curated by Gazelle Twin

Titled Erratic, the artist’s playlist is meant to loop on shuffle until you can’t listen to it any longer

For many contemporary artists, the pull of verse offers boundless opportunities with which to make work

A four-hour immersive experience at Manchester’s Aviva Studios explores sex, death and ritual, collapsing personal and collective memory

Metalabel – an indie platform celebrated for its anti-scale ethos – is betting big on a new corporate law that will allow artists to game the system