Critic's Guides

Arts and letters

The unsettling installations of Rabih Mroué

The growth of public institutions in Mexico City

The little things that stood out in 2012

Biennials, new commercial galleries and the reopening of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Journals, poems, biography and ‘direct implication’– the year in books

Anti-Japanese protests and the 18th National Congress have meant a rocky year in China

Arts after the revolution

Confidence and resolve in the Brazilian art scene

To coincide with the long-delayed reopening of the Stedelijk Museum, which closed its doors in 2003, frieze commissioned three reports from the Dutch capital. Nick Aikens reviews the renovated museum, Maxine Kopsa takes stock of last year’s cuts to cultural budgets, and Timotheus Vermeulen considers the impact of the recent national elections

Contemplating recent events at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Changes in historical perspective that are shaping art being made today

In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the films that have influenced them

In an ongoing series, frieze asks an artist, curator or writer to list the books that have influenced them

Performance art in Burma

Since the late 1990s, the art scene in the Indian capital and its environs has swelled from a handful of galleries to a thriving constellation of non-profits, residency programmes and artist-run spaces.

The first in an occasional series in which an artist, curator or writer discusses the buildings and environments that have most influenced them

In an ongoing series, frieze asks an artist, curator or writer to list the books that have influenced them

In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice

In an ongoing series, frieze asks an artist, curator or writer to list the books that have influenced them