1500 words

Novelist Isabel Waidner explores the artist’s keen interest in writing and books

Considering the art and writing of the New York based artist, whose work delved into the distances of time and memory

The artist offers his personal recollections of co-founding a collective instrumental to the British Black Arts Movement in the 1980s

Cass Fino-Radin on what it means to keep projects like Ian Cheng’s BOB (2018–19) alive

Camilla Grudova revisits the mythical and real women of painting who influenced her fiction – and adulthood

The artist looks to Bob Flanagan for new forms of radical love

Patrik Sandberg on his years of friendship with the legendary filmmaker

Avram Finkelstein looks back on Gran Fury’s contribution to the 1990 Venice Biennale, The Pope and the Penis, and considers how the immediacy of social media might have impacted the AIDS activist collective

Celebrating the author and filmmaker’s 90th birthday, frieze invited him to reflect on Walter Benjamin’s favourite film and the pleasure machines of Coney Island

On Stefan and Franciszka Themerson’s celebrated experimental anti-fascist film poem, Europa

Novelist Ida Marie Hede reflects on bad dreams, Marianna Simnett and Disney princesses

 Anna Della Subin’s brief history of objects turned into gods, and what it means for our thing-filled world   

This summer, frieze sent novelist Tom McCarthy to Danh Võ’s studio to celebrate the solstice – and the undeniable seductions of the German countryside

A thirty-year-old memory, a one-night stand and an art exhibition featuring this newly translated piece by the prize-winning author

Shiv Kotecha on the long career of playback singer Asha Bhosle 

The American poet – whose ‘Memory’ is now out from Siglio Press – on the poetics of synesthesia