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Opinion / Frieze Editor’s Picks: The True-Crime Draw of ‘Saint Omer’

Other highlights include a Ghanaian internet radio station rapidly taking over international airwaves and the latest novel from Nell Zink

BY Vanessa Peterson | 03 FEB 23

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Opinion / How Did Johannes Vermeer Construct His Famous Interiors?

A landmark exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum draws on the latest research to throw new light on the Dutch Master

BY Lua Vollaard | 09 FEB 23

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Opinion / Frieze Editor’s Picks: Jumana Manna’s Agrarian Satire

Other highlights include composer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s latest album and the New York Review of Architecture – a small, independent newspaper reviewing the city’s most reputable (and disreputable) buildings

BY Terence Trouillot | 27 JAN 23

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Opinion / The Nomadic Museum Championing Queer Art Practices in Romania

Launched to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality, Triumf Amiria is the country’s first institution dedicated to LGBTQ+ culture

BY Carlos Kong | 16 JAN 23

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Books / What to Read This Winter

From the science fiction of N.K. Jemisin to the final essays of Janet Malcolm, members of the frieze team select the books they’re most excited about this season

BY frieze | 18 JAN 23

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Opinion / Frieze Editor’s Picks: The Poetry of Alice Notley

Two new collections published by Fonograf Editions reintroduce readers to the preternatural heart of the poet

BY Andrew Durbin | 06 JAN 23

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Opinion / Frieze Editor’s Picks: Eileen Myles’s ‘Pathetic’ Anthology

Other highlights include Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy’s culinary horror and a podcast for freelance writers

BY Lisa Yin Zhang | 23 DEC 22

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Opinion / Frieze Editor’s Picks: Letitia Wright’s Disquieting Immigration Drama

Angel Lambo also highlights Brian Alfred’s book of artist profiles and a new podcast bridging art and activism

BY Angel Lambo | 14 NOV 22

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Opinion / Frieze Editor’s Picks: The First Edition of HÄN Connects Queer Pasts and Futures

Other highlights include James St James’s Night Fever podcast, plus new and upcoming book releases from Rosanna McLaughlin and McKenzie Wark

BY Sean Burns | 25 NOV 22

John Akomfrah

Celebrating the work of the award-winning filmmaker who will represent Britain at the 2024 Venice Biennale

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Opinion / Addressing the Anthropocene's Complexity Through Film

John Akomfrah's epic Purple highlights new ways of visualizing our current state of ecological emergency

BY Alice Bucknell | 31 OCT 17

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Frieze / John Akomfrah: On Essays, Identities and Stuart Hall

frieze presents an interview with the award-winning filmmaker, tracing the evolution of his practise

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Features / John Akomfrah and the Otolith Group Discuss Post-Cinematic Blackness

During the turbulent summer of 2020, the filmmakers decided on decentring the human in their practice

BY John Akomfrah AND The Otolith Group | 23 SEP 20

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Opinion / John Akomfrah Commemorates the Colonial Soldiers Who Fought for a Foreign Cause

100 years on from World War I, the filmmaker’s latest work Mimesis: African Soldier remembers the faces we seldom see in history books

BY Osei Bonsu | 22 JAN 19

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Opinion / TÁR’s Manifestations of Power, Control and Legacy

Released in the UK this month, Caitlin Quinlan explores what Todd Field's TÁR (2022) reveals about the abuses of power and the possibilities of accountability

BY Caitlin Quinlan | 19 JAN 23

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Film / Lindsay Lohan’s ‘Falling for Christmas’ is Proof of Hollywood’s Dehumanizing Effects

The former starlet’s return to the screen is just a reminder of how far she has fallen from favour

BY Jia Jia Huang | 06 DEC 22

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Interviews / Ruben Östlund on Communism, Superyachts and Saving Face

Ahead of the UK premiere of ‘Triangle of Sadness’, the Swedish director talks to Rory O’Connor about his latest jab at the mega rich

BY Rory O'Connor | 07 OCT 22

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Books / What to Read This Winter

From the science fiction of N.K. Jemisin to the final essays of Janet Malcolm, members of the frieze team select the books they’re most excited about this season

BY frieze | 18 JAN 23

Interviews , Opinion

Opinion / Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective Invoke Icons of French Poetry

The spiritual quests of the 20th-century poets Antonin Artaud, René Daumal and Arthur Rimbaud are transmuted into a sonic landscape at Centre Pompidou

BY Nadine Khalil | 22 NOV 22

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Opinion / Vigdis Hjorth’s Fraught Depiction of Motherhood

Eloise Hendy interrogates the complexities of merciless mother-daughter bonds in the author's latest book Is Mother Dead

BY Eloise Hendy | 26 OCT 22

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Music / Björk’s ‘Fossora’ Guides Listeners Through Jagged Heights

On her latest album, the musician tackles mourning and uses memory as a way to enrich life’s soil

BY Harry Tafoya | 17 OCT 22

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Opinion / Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’: If You Don’t Dance, You Might Fall Off the Planet’s Edge

The artist’s ballroom and dance music-inspired new album is a rebirth necessitated by ruin

BY Harmony Holiday | 30 AUG 22

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Opinion / Rediscovering Moki and Don Cherry’s Utopian Visions

‘Organic Music Societies’ shows the nomadic world the late American jazz icon and Swedish artist created for their friends, collaborators and children, Neneh and Eagle Eye Cherry

BY Anton Spice | 14 APR 21

STORIES WE MISSED

A series of short essays on the events and trends we missed in our coverage of art and culture in 2022

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Opinion / Stories We Missed: The Year AI Art Went Mainstream

Despite a banner year for AI art with the release of DALL-E 2 and MidJourney, the fruitlessness of its endeavour has become plain

BY Mike Pepi | 31 DEC 22

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Opinion / Stories We Missed: Eileen Isagon Skyers on New Perspectives for Decentralized Art

After a year of volatility in the crypto markets, Skyers considers the community-building potential for artists working on the blockchain

BY Eileen Isagon Skyers | 22 DEC 22

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Opinion / Stories We Missed: Adam Pendleton and the Issue of Originality in the Digital Age

Jeppe Ugelvig reflects the growing technology of ‘moodboarding’ and how art and fashion are inextricably linked through appropriation

BY Jeppe Ugelvig | 08 DEC 22

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Opinion / ‘The Collaboration’ Paints a Tenuous Friendship Between Basquiat and Warhol

Anthony McCarten’s play on the two art legends’ relationship is bogged down in potted biographies but builds to a crescendo

BY Rhoda Feng | 11 JAN 23

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Opinion / Celebrating Vivienne Westwood (1941–2022)

Michael Costiff, John Foley, Pam Hogg and Princess Julia pay tribute to the pioneering fashion designer and activist

BY Princess Julia, John Foley, Pam Hogg, Michael Costiff AND Sean Burns | 10 JAN 23

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Opinion / Frieze Editor’s Picks: Eileen Myles’s ‘Pathetic’ Anthology

Other highlights include Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy’s culinary horror and a podcast for freelance writers

BY Lisa Yin Zhang | 23 DEC 22

Interviews , Opinion

Interviews / Shirin Neshat on the Uprisings in Iran

Sean Burns speaks to the artist about the current protests in her home country and how the art world can better act in solidarity with the insurgents

BY Shirin Neshat AND Sean Burns | 23 DEC 22

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Opinion / Frieze Editor’s Picks: Florentina Holzinger’s Self-Injurious Acts

Other highlights include a new documentary on German dancer Pina Bausch and a podcast dedicated to solving the mystery of artist Ana Mendieta's suspicious death

BY Chloe Stead | 09 DEC 22

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Interviews / The AI Team that Brought Back Andy Warhol

Resemble AI CEO Zohaib Ahmed on whether the human touch still matters

BY Andrew Durbin AND Zohaib Ahmed | 06 DEC 22