Sean Burns

Marlene Dumas triumphs at Palazzo Grassi and Pauline Curnier Jardin upends the Biennale’s exclusivity

From neo-surrealist painting to coarse conceptualism, three frieze editors discuss the year in art

What role did the institution play in photography’s ascent?

The best exhibitions on view during the fair – from Doron Langberg’s splashy gay paintings at Victoria Miro to Theaster Gates’s homage to clay at Whitechapel Gallery

Is contemporary art a reaction to social, political and local specificities or is it active in creating new utopic, progressive impulses? The BAS9 aspires to ask both

The artist speaks to Sean Burns about her polarising public sculptures and capturing the spirit of her subjects

Frieze editors discuss the different trends in digital exhibition-making, from end-of-world scenarios to community-based initiatives

The gender and sexuality theorist speaks to Sean Burns about his book, ‘Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire’, and why gay men are a fast lane for capitalism

With the industry having been continuously overlooked by the UK government’s COVID-19 response, frieze charts a disastrous year for nightlife

In homage to Italo Calvino’s ‘Six Memos for the Next Millennium’, artists from Kara Walker to Collier Schorr, explore his six artistic virtues 

In the latest episode of frieze’s Autumn Sessions, the two friends play and discuss records that create or bridge distance

Sean Burns profiles the filmmaker and DJ, a friend to generations of artists, designers and club-goers

The artist’s exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery, London, seems to mirror the evanescent nature of experience

A new exhibition at Tramps reveals 40 years of hidden painting

Sean Burns reviews Birmingham’s live art biennale

Roxy Lee’s new photobook offers an insight into an irreverent and politically-charged world

The artist talks about the mystery and politics of making 

On the 40th anniversary of ‘Unknown Pleasures’, the artist discusses the inspiration behind his iconic designs

An exhibition at Platform Southwark, London, celebrates the legacy of the radical drag theatre company

‘Militant Desire’, a new series of screenings at London’s Gasworks, revives consciousness-raising discussions