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Opinion

Opinion / ‘Myself Mona Ahmed’: Revisiting Dayanita Singh’s Landmark Photobook

Taken over a decade and published in 2001, Singh’s book documents the life of her friend Mona Ahmed

BY Vikramaditya Sahai | 23 OCT 20

From the Magazine

The latest columns from frieze magazine

Opinion

Opinion / How to Be a Performance Artist

Glasgow-based performer Liv Fontaine’s top tips

BY Liv Fontaine | 10 SEP 20

Opinion

Opinion / Can Magazines Still Give Speed to Cultural Revolution?

Jessica Loudis on the magazines attempting to upend contemporary media

BY Jessica Loudis | 13 OCT 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 / Mike Kelley and the Ghost of le Comte de Lautréamont

On what would have been Kelley’s 66th Birthday, Gabriella Pounds explores the impact of the antic French poem ‘Les Chants de Maldoror’ on the artist and his predecessors, from Hans Bellmer to John Balance

BY Gabriella Pounds | 27 OCT 20

Interviews

Interviews / Adora Mba on How her Gallery Will Foster a New Generation of African Artists

The former journalist and founder of The Afropolitan Collector opens her first gallery, ADA \ Contemporary, in Accra, Ghana

BY Adora Mba AND Terence Trouillot | 22 OCT 20

Opinion

Opinion / The Banal Essentialism of ‘We Are Who We Are’

Luca Guadagnino’s new HBO series treats identity like an Instagram filter

BY Evan Moffitt | 22 OCT 20

Opinion

Opinion / The Battle for the BBC

Why the Conservatives are wrong to dismiss the British public's intelligence and imagination

BY Juliet Jacques | 14 OCT 20

Frieze Masters

Frieze Masters / The Humboldt Forum: A Controversial New Museum Project Opens in Berlin

Pablo Larios interviews the director, Hartmut Dorgerloh, about its evolution and intentions

BY Pablo Larios AND Hartmut Dorgerloh | 13 OCT 20

Opinion

Opinion / Artists Speak against the Postponement of ‘Philip Guston Now’

Trenton Doyle Hancock, Mark Thomas Gibson, Jacolby Satterwhite, Tschabalala Self and Gary Simmons respond to the controversial decision to delay Guston’s retrospective

BY frieze | 02 OCT 20

Latest Film

Opinion

Opinion / Jia Zhangke Paints a Nuanced Portrait of China’s Economic Boom

The filmmaker’s latest documentary, Swimming Out till the Sea Turns Blue, is an object study of the generations affected by industrialization

BY Anthony Hawley | 26 OCT 20

Frieze Masters

Frieze Masters / The Greatest Special Effects Artist Receives His Due

An exhibition in Edinburgh honouring Ray Harryhausen gives film historians the chance to see Medusa, the Kraken, dinosaurs and giant sea creatures

BY Dan Fox | 21 OCT 20

Opinion

Opinion / Can Film Assist in the Fight Against Gentrification?

How Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings, Ed Webb-Ingall and Ayo Akingbade approach the closure of public space

BY Ryan Kearney | 01 OCT 20

Critic's Guides

Critic's Guides / The Monsters of ‘Lovecraft Country’ Live Among US

The gothic tales of notorious racist H.P. Lovecraft provide source material for HBO’s new show about ‘the hauntedness of Black life’

BY Ian Bourland | 11 SEP 20

Opinion

Opinion / ‘Black Is King’ but Beyoncé Doesn’t Share the Crown

The album is a timely affirmation for the global African diaspora, but it can’t be accepted as a universal representation of global Blackness.

BY Eric Otieno AND Nelly Y. Pinkrah | 14 AUG 20

Opinion

Opinion / Lucy Ives Rewatches a Dystopian Buddy Movie

Primer (2004) asks what happens when history is always hanging in the balance

BY Lucy Ives | 28 AUG 20

Music

Opinion

Opinion / Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s Cosmic ‘Transmissions’

The musician’s retrospective album proves he has long been ahead of his time – and out of this world

BY Eliza Barry | 21 SEP 20

Opinion

Opinion / Rita Indiana’s Songbook for the End of the World

The writer and musician’s latest album, Mandinga Times, is a bracing ode to apocalyptic collapse

BY Julyssa Lopez | 18 AUG 20

Opinion

Opinion / The Future According to Arca

The artist’s ambitious fourth studio album is a genre-bending journey of defiance and radiant elation

BY Verónica Bayetti Flores | 22 JUL 20

Opinion

Opinion / ‘Black Is King’ but Beyoncé Doesn’t Share the Crown

The album is a timely affirmation for the global African diaspora, but it can’t be accepted as a universal representation of global Blackness.

BY Eric Otieno AND Nelly Y. Pinkrah | 14 AUG 20

Latest Books

Opinion

Opinion / Life as Someone Else’s Fantasy: Stephanie LaCava’s ‘The Superrationals’

The author's new novel is a smart, sharply observed critique of literary tropes and the art world

BY Philippa Snow | 16 OCT 20

Opinion

Opinion / What Ray Johnson Can Teach Us about a Good Postal Service

‘Frog Pond Splash’, published 20 November by Siglio Press, presents four decades of the artist’s mail-art exchanges with poet William S. Wilson

BY Tausif Noor | 08 OCT 20

Helen Marten’s Intimate Affinities

The artist’s first novel proceeds by image and incantation rather than much in the way of explicit plot

BY Brian Dillon | 10 SEP 20

Opinion

Opinion / The Trouble with Writers’ ‘Real Names’

A new publishing project misunderstands the anti-patriarchal motivations behind historical pen names

BY Rosanna McLaughlin | 28 AUG 20

Technology

Features

Features / Nancy Baker Cahill's Ghostly Monuments

The artist's augmented-reality works are freeing public sculpture from the ‘ideology of control’

BY Elvia Wilk | 15 SEP 20

Opinion

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