Covid-19

Describe a global crisis in 600 words? Too hard. But isn’t everything else irrelevant right now?

Curator Brook Andrew’s proposal that creativity is an important means of truth-telling is a bolt of much-needed optimism

Every day in ‘lockdown’, we are asked to consider the effects of social distancing – as if segregation weren’t already a reality  

As COVID-19 intensified, video games about disease spread

From the sweet solitude of early sunrise to the existential dread of late-night listening, these works will tide you over 

When we feel caged at home, online animal videos offer a way to connect

Six minutes of the glossy new streaming app’s TV-for-smartphone ‘quick bites’ can feel like an eternity

Reflecting on the late curator, critic, art historian and impresario with artists Laurie Anderson, Thomas Demand and Paolo Icaro

Has Covid-19 made the internet good? It’s important to maintain our scepticism in this moment of unicorn-wifi-in-the-sky ‘niceness’

Through sub-par speakers in bedrooms and living rooms, across cities and continents – queer joy persists

An interview with Germany’s minister of culture, Monika Grütters

From an MRSA Quilt to a Plague Dress, how artists are transforming the intersection of medicine and textiles

We should use this moment to propose new ways of making and showing

Regional institutions suffer major losses to their endowments, as artists look to emergency grant programmes and New York State considers a rent suspension

Frieze editors and contributors suggest books, films, music and television shows to keep you busy during the Covid-19 lockdown

It’s the most vulnerable that are set to suffer the most and, in the topsy-turvy value system of contemporary art, that means artists and other freelancers

Why it’s not so simple to move art online – and other news from our Europe dispatch

Each day for the next month, we’ll highlight a different exhibition that’s affected by the Covid-19 crisis

As Italy comes under full lock-down, surveying the effects of a global health emergency