The 2010s

In the 2010s, cinema grappled with the most tangible effects of the climate crisis 

What we were looking at (and what we missed) in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of frieze

The moral high-ground has been claimed by many in the 2010s; it has also been placed in perpetual doubt

From The Walking Dead to Stranger Things, frightening revivals ‘captured a bit of lost magic in a disenchanted world’ 

Pablo Larios highlights the damaging effects of network fatigue in contemporary art 

Founded in 2009, the app sparked a revolution in sex, dating and the social dynamics of the LGBTQ community

From Grumpy Cat to Pizza Rat, what the images we shared said about the world around us

From Somerset to Menorca, H&W’s ‘art centre’ model has redefined what a commercial gallery can be. Can our public institutions compete?

Why the rise of ‘curatorial collectives’ spells an uncertain future for the profession

From Chelsea Manning to Edward Snowden to the Trump–Russia dossier, public outcry has soon reverted to business as usual

What art speaks to us when we’re overwhelmed by climate change and global instability?

Cécile B. Evans, Jenna Sutela, Jonathan Yeo, Tiffany Funk, Luba Elliott and Anna Ridler appraise the impact of new tools and platforms over the last decade

Co-working spaces provide corporate culture for people who don’t have a corporation

The 2010s was the decade in which video-game story-telling became self-aware

The artists, collectives, movements and tendencies that shaped art in the 2010s

From normcore’s resurrection of the hoodie to gorpcore’s luxe ‘into the woods’ aesthetic

The redevelopment of an icon of 1980s finance capitalism is an object lesson in how London has been reshaped in the decade following the global financial crisis

From parafactual entertainment to teen TV and the ‘flood’ of content

Wolfson believes art has no relationship to ethics; after a decade of shock, it’s hard to take him seriously

In the 2010s, nearly every blockbuster film has been a visual-effects-driven fantasy spectacle owned and distributed by a single corporation