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Profiles / How Cao Fei Predicted the Future

At the artist’s first institutional show in China, real life slips into the shadows of a digital world seeking to supplant it

BY Carina Bukuts | 29 MAR 21

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Profiles

Profiles / How Tyree Guyton’s Heidelberg Project Helped Revitalize Detroit

Jenenne Whitfield, the artist's wife and president of the Heidelberg Project, reflects on the history and legacy of Guyton's magnum opus: an outdoor sculpture in Detroit's east side

BY Jenenne Whitfield | 19 APR 21

Profiles

Profiles / Kenneth Tam Picks Apart Asian-American Masculinity

With a new work on view at the Queens Museum, the artist continues to probe the paradox of Asian-American visibility and ‘model minority’ myth

BY Alex Jen | 09 APR 21

Interviews

Interviews / Lorraine O’Grady is Making Deep Cuts

On the occasion of her retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum, the artist speaks to Malik Gaines about her process, politics and vision for a more equitable world

BY Malik Gaines AND Lorraine O’Grady | 02 APR 21

Profiles

Profiles / Sandra Mujinga’s Spectral Figures Evoke Dark Histories and a Murky Present

At the heart of the artist's work is a critique of the violence of representation

BY Eric Otieno Sumba | 23 MAR 21

Features

Features / Amy Sillman’s Philosophy of Doubt

The painter, writer, educator and self-described ‘art appreciator’ invites us to follow and think alongside her

BY Tausif Noor AND Amy Sillman | 02 MAR 21

Profiles

Profiles / Mary Schmidt Campbell on Educating the Next Generation of Black Artists

The President of Spelman College reflects on the role that historically black colleges and universities in the US have played in supporting the work of emerging artists and scholars

BY Evan Moffitt AND Mary Schmidt Campbell | 30 MAR 21

From the Archive

Profiles

Profiles / The ‘Rough Glory’ of Kim Gordon’s First Solo Album

The restless, rageful ‘No Home Record’ lures as much as it discomfits

BY Hermione Hoby | 24 SEP 19

Features

Features / How Artists Are Changing the Way We See Landscape

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on 13BC and the artists using art, science and technology to map the world

BY Kaelen Wilson-Goldie | 22 OCT 19

Features

Features / Michael Clark: The Artists’ Dancer

From enfant terrible of British ballet to a retrospective at the Barbican Gallery, how the choreographer and performer found a home in the contemporary art world

BY Brian Dillon | 06 AUG 20

Features

Features / What Makes Performance the Required Medium of the Day?

Karen Archey on Ligia Lewis and Alex Baczynski-Jenkins

BY Karen Archey | 26 SEP 19

Opinion

Opinion / Merce Cunningham’s Sites of Curiosity

On the centennial of Cunningham’s birth, how does his legacy prompt us to talk about othered bodies?

BY Marissa Perel | 15 MAR 19

Features

Features / ‘All Of My Bones Are Broken’: Heike Geissler on Christine Blasey Ford, Religious Devotion and Surviving the Present

After her celebrated book Seasonal Associate, author Heike Geissler presents a new story for frieze

BY Heike Geissler | 02 JUN 19

Profiles

Profiles / Teresa Burga: Profile of a Peruvian Woman

For more than 50 years, the artist has used conceptual art to examine the inherently political nature of information

BY Pablo Larios | 29 OCT 18

Features

Features / Skin, Or Surface: Njideka Akunyili Crosby

The artist's layered, tender paintings consider the history of being seen and touched by black women

BY Simone White | 09 MAR 18