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A personal response to the influential artist and performer ahead of his homecoming retrospective and residency in Manchester 

BY Sean Burns |

Reflecting on the artist’s enduring influence as her flag flies over Tate Britain in London

BY Goshka Macuga |

Fifty years after the debut of Wilson’s Life and Times of Joseph Stalin, a friend and collaborator remembers her time with the director

BY Robyn Brentano |

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

BY Isabel Waidner |

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

BY John Keene |

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

BY Keith Piper |

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

BY Cass Fino-Radin |

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

BY Camilla Grudova |

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

BY Trisha Low |

Patrik Sandberg on his years of friendship with the legendary filmmaker

BY Patrik Sandberg |

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

BY Avram Finkelstein |

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

BY Alexander Kluge |

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

BY So Mayer |

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

BY Ida Marie Hede |

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

BY Anna Della Subin |

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

BY Tom McCarthy |

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

BY ​Annie Ernaux |

Shiv Kotecha on the long career of playback singer Asha Bhosle 

BY Shiv Kotecha |

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

BY Bernadette Mayer |