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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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Frieze Week Magazine / 30 Black Women Trailblazing Visual Representation and Racial Justice

As part of the Vision & Justice tribute at Frieze New York, we salute leading artists, writers, thinkers and activists who have contributed to the project and its mission

27 APR 21

Thematic Essays

Thematic Essays / 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 , Reviews Across Asia

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 , Profiles

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 , Profiles

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

From the Archive

Music , 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