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Frieze Magazine - Issue 255 - November/December 2025

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In this issue

At frieze, we often like to close our year by taking stock of the moment and looking ahead – twin poles for this issue, our last of 2025. Ahead of New York’s Performa Biennial, our columns section looks closely at some of the artists revolutionizing contemporary performance. Aria Dean writes about building characters for her new play; Jeanette Bisschops looks at how the algorithm is shaping in-person performance; philosopher Saidiya Hartman describes the possibilities that unfold from endings; Miriam Stoney reflects on performance art’s return to the theatre; and assistant editor Cassie Packard profiles our cover artist, Ayoung Kim, whose visionary practice constructs a multiverse of astonishing worlds. In our features section,
the theme of performance continues with a profile of Tau Lewis, whose Performa commission revisits ancient Sumerian poetry.

After Coco

A look at Sylvie Fleury's devotion to luxury ahead of her new commission for Performa and an exhibition at Sprüth Magers, New York

2 mins

Dramatis Personae

Performance: Aria Dean on the challenges of crafting characters in her 2025 Performa commission

4 mins

Imagining the Otherwise

Saidiya Hartman on the minor musics and diasporic traditions behind her latest 'performed discourse'

3 mins

Consider the Algorithm

New York's newest performance space foregrounds togetherness

3 mins

Bring Down the House

What happens when unorthodox art forms enter traditional institutions?

3 mins

Warped Speed

The multidisciplinary practice of Ayoung Kim projects possible worlds and queers conceptions of time

5 mins

'To respect the material is to work in a state of consent, you have to be able to learn to communicate with it.'

Following the opening of her exhibition at the de Young in San Francisco, writer and sculptor Rose B. Simpson talks to Natalie Diaz about Indigenous education and collaborating with materials

8 mins

ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY

Novelist Tash Aw reflects on the future of Singapore through the works of artists Heman Chong and Ming Wong

9 mins

THE 25 BEST WORKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

This year, frieze asked 200 artists, curators, critics and museum directors to name the most outstanding works of art from the past quarter century. From their nominations, we compiled a list of 25 works that have shaped contemporary art since the year 2000

10+ mins

The Writing Fellow

Reflections on a journey through the galleries and behind the scenes at Madrid's Prado Museum

7 mins

Read all Stories from Frieze

Frieze Magazine Description:

Publisher: Frieze-Publishing

Category: Art

Language: English

Frequency: 45 Days

Frieze is a contemporary art magazine, published eight times a year. It was founded in London in 1991 and is renowned for publishing essays, profiles, interviews and reviews by today’s leading writers, artists and curators. Across all platforms and live events frieze elevates the provocative, brilliant and leading voices who shape and challenge today’s art world.