Issue 255

To mark our countdown of the 25 greatest works of the 21st century, the frieze team selects its favourite tracks from 25 years

The artist and critic reflects on the challenges of roles heavy with symbolic meaning and the careful shaping of her Performa 2025 commission

The East Williamsburg space hosts work that probes how contemporary artists navigate the challenges of a media-saturated world

The writer and theorist explores how acts of performance can confront, unsettle and rethink enduring structures

As performance artists increasingly collaborate with dancers and theatre actors, the boundaries blur, leaving us to wonder where performance art ends – and performance begins

With a recursive, transmedia lens, the artist imagines the world of ‘delivery dancers’, now brought to life in a live, motion-capture theatre performance

This autumn, for her Performa debut, the artist channels the Sumerian poem The Descent of Inanna, exploring the enduring influence it has on her practice

The novelist navigates family, identity and artistic experimentation in Southeast Asia, spotlighting the inventive practices of Heman Chong and Ming Wong

As part of the Madrid institution’s ‘Writing the Prado’ programme, the Irish novelist revisits the paintings that once captivated him

The Santa Clara Pueblo artist speaks with poet Natalie Diaz about learning outside institutions, exploring how clay, steel and cars become teachers in her work

Her work navigates the tension between admiration and critique, tracing how contemporary art absorbs the sparkle and influence of fashion and opulence

Join us as we count down the defining works that have shaped contemporary art since 2000