Frieze 200

‘I found it at my local used bookstore more than a month before its release date, only days after 9/11’

‘The show singlehandedly thrust Africa back into the culture of global contemporary art.’

‘I know no more perfect portrait of artist and muse’

‘Her work challenges the way 20th-century history has been shaped in our cultural imaginaries’

‘No other installation has come close to the swooning sensation of seeing Bourgeois’s work for the first time’

We look back on 28 years of publishing by remembering what inspires us

‘Do you remember what that was like seeing great art and knowing nothing about its maker or context?’

‘These works render the real, estranged personalities of our present perturbing, alluring; exquisite’

‘I knew, while trying that chair, that I wanted whatever the future had to offer’

For all the camp and capering, Eddie and Patsy’s antics also have a plaintive, even existential tinge

‘After Kurzweil’s book landed with a thud in the centre of our culture, it was impossible not to address its claims’

‘She introduced me to the borderland of craft, for which I count myself very lucky’

‘The people from whom I learn most are enthusiasts, who take my soul to places I never knew existed.’

Once eclipsed by the men in her life, the architect’s supreme originality and energy are slowly being recognized

‘If criticality indicates a desire for change, then surely the critic is actually an optimist’

‘If anything can be converted to DNA, then this interview could become a DNA portrait of you’

‘The acid test of anyone’s enthusiasm is just how boring it is’

The inspirational founder of Germany’s Green Party and her untimely death 

‘In this era of social violence and the return of the irrational, has the interhuman sphere become, paradoxically, obsolete?’

‘You have taught art within a history that is our own, with a language that is our own’