Art
Frieze
The Writing Fellow
Reflections on a journey through the galleries and behind the scenes at Madrid's Prado Museum
7 min |
Issue 255 - November/December 2025
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'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 min |
Issue 255 - November/December 2025
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Bring Down the House
What happens when unorthodox art forms enter traditional institutions?
3 min |
Issue 255 - November/December 2025
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ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
Novelist Tash Aw reflects on the future of Singapore through the works of artists Heman Chong and Ming Wong
9 min |
Issue 255 - November/December 2025
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Warped Speed
The multidisciplinary practice of Ayoung Kim projects possible worlds and queers conceptions of time
5 min |
Issue 255 - November/December 2025
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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+ min |
Issue 255 - November/December 2025
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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 min |
Issue 255 - November/December 2025
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Dramatis Personae
Performance: Aria Dean on the challenges of crafting characters in her 2025 Performa commission
4 min |
Issue 255 - November/December 2025
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Consider the Algorithm
New York's newest performance space foregrounds togetherness
3 min |
Issue 255 - November/December 2025
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Imagining the Otherwise
Saidiya Hartman on the minor musics and diasporic traditions behind her latest 'performed discourse'
3 min |
Issue 255 - November/December 2025
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JR Perrotin, London, UK
In 2017, the French street artist JR staged a giant installation at the US-Mexico border wall, with guests enjoying a meal on either side.
2 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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Leah Ke Yi Zheng
In ‘Machine(s)’, her first solo exhibition at Layr, Wuyishan-born, Chicago-based artist Leah Ke Yi Zheng continues to confront the conventional role of canvas as passive support in works whose physical shape is integral to their meaning and whose mutable, translucent surfaces are imbued with an almost-bodily presence.
2 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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Caught in a Landslide
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and KINDL, Berlin, Germany
2 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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Typologien
In the age of AI deep fakes and disinformation, dissecting the context and influence of image production is more important than ever.
2 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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C'est Marseille, bébé
Dossier: Four love letters to Marseille – penned by curators and writers – celebrate the cultural and political spirit of France’s second city
10+ min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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Banu Cennetoğlu
In ‘BEING SAFE IS SCARY’, Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu reflects upon the adversities of the migrant experience, hinting at the extraordinary powers that governments can wield in the guise of protection.
2 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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They Began to Talk
Against the background of an endless vibra-tion, birds chirp as trains rumble by.
2 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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In Our Own Backyard
‘How many feminists do you need to change an electric bulb?’ asked Indian writer and activist Kamla Bhasin and author and illustrator Bindia Thapar in their book Laughing Matters (2004).
2 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Profile: From drone strikes to wind turbines, the artist's latest works examine the weaponization of noise and the politics of listening
9 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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Ilê Sartuzi
During my visit to Ilê Sartuzi’s current exhibition, ‘Trick’, at Museu de Arte Contemporânea in São Paulo, an alarm went off, blaring for what felt like an eternity.
2 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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Postcard from Monaco
Out of Office: Ivana Cholakova spins the wheel of chance
1 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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Sadao Hasegawa
A naked, muscled youth appears to rocket into space in Sadao Hasegawa’s That Floating Feeling (1980). His body throbs magenta, while his face - impassive as a mask - is crowned by flamelike hair. Both human and ethereal, he exhales a stream of starry breath, while the tips of his fingers sparkle: flesh becoming cosmic.
2 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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Jack Whitten
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
5 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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Sophie Calle
At Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, the French photographer and conceptual artist Sophie Calle presents an assortment of projects deferred or abandoned over the course of her 40-year career.
2 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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Mythic Shores
Essay: David Campany analyzes historical and contemporary photographic representations of the Mediterranean Sea
9 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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Julien Berthier
Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
2 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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Julien Creuzet
The Bell, Providence, USA
2 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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Laura Owens
Amid the visual overwhelm on display in Laura Owens’s eponymous exhibition, which spans two of Matthew Marks Gallery’s Manhattan spaces, an abiding image is the candy cigarette.
2 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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Arpita Singh
A cluster of small, lemon-yellow islands - each shaped exactly like Cuba - hovers in a milky body of water.
2 min |
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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Against Despair
How Istanbul's contemporary artists have created pockets of resistance in the heart of the city
6 min |