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Polystyrene and post-minimalism; industrial processes and the ‘skin’ of amorphous forms

Jonathan Romney evaluates cinematography's ability to accurately capture other mediums 

The former director of Nottingham Contemporary shares his notes on the nature and evolution of the artist's studio

In praise of anachronism: how a number of recent exhibitions have been integrating the past with the present

More and more artists are re-enacting iconic performances. What does this mean for ‘art of the present tense’ and its relationship to the past?

Part two of or survey of artists, writers and curators on the relationship between art and politics. Responses from Gregory Sholette, Harrell Fletcher, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, and Max Andrews.

Kateřina Šedá’s projects question the pros and cons of an artistic practice that purports to be for the good of its participants

Melancholy and entropy haunt the French artist’s films and photographs

Mark Godfrey travelled to four cities to gain a deeper understanding of Theaster Gates's intermingling of art with urban regeneration

Newsrooms, agitprop theatre and the‘living newspaper'

How a monumental ruin is turned into gravel, in the Brazilian artist’s show ‘Dois Reais’ (Two Reals, 2012)

In the run-up to the US presidential election in 2004, frieze asked 22 artists to respond to four questions on the relationship between art and politics. With the build up to this year's presidential election in the United States, we asked a selection of artists, curators and writers to answer the same four questions: What constitutes political art? Has there been a resurgence of it? What is an example of art that is politically effective? Is political art preaching to the converted? For the first part of this series, the responses of Nato Thompson, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Oliver Ressler and Helen Molesworth.

Is the space of painting made by abstraction, illusion or the sculptural qualities of the canvas?

Phil Collins embraces mass media and popular culture, only to unsettle the stereotypes they produce

Seiichi Furuya captured a person and a country destined to disappear. While reorganizing his archive, the photographer discovered a new set of timeless subjects

Latifa Echakhch uses destruction and displacement to turn everyday objects into abstractions

Work, Paint, Ask Questions

Eavesdropping, Sticking and Falling Down

Military strategies, insults and Arts & Crafts

The Argentinean artist’s year-long video project Un Futuro Certero (A Certain Future)