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Richard Hawkins’ collages and paintings explore desire and decadence, the culture industry, abstraction, land-rights and fandom

Cardboard boxes, wood chunks, mouldy fruit and newspapers

Using sources as varied as Schindler’s List and the CNN news, Omer Fast scrutinizes how history is presented and meaning is disseminated

Photographs, LPs, humour, abstraction and melancholy

From the Modern Pentathlon to Bauhaus gymnastics, New Wave Cinema and magic, Daria Martin’s 16mm films explore the expressive possibilities of the body in space

Tomma Abts’ small, intense paintings and drawings treat art as something compellingly unfamiliar: not a language that exists in relation to other art, but to itself

Many of Mike Kelley’s obsessions and strategies were reinvigorated in the artist’s recent multi-media spectacle ‘Day is Done’

Photographs, LPs, abstraction, humour and melancholy

Science fiction and cut flowers, postcards, vegetables and travel

Curated by Alex Farquharson and Andrea Schlieker, the British Art Show 6 opened at Baltic, Gateshead in September and will be touring to Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol. What does it reflect about the relationship between culture and geography in the UK?

The decay of modernity, melancholy objects and shared cultural moments

Las Vegas and Berlin; bird-watching and urban development; mobbing and elbow room

While the gritty glamour of Marepe’s work valorizes the ingenuity of the inhabitants of north-eastern Brazil, its meaning is further complicated when it travels

Artist meets con artist; travel and tourism; matches lit at both ends

Truth to materials; the mundane and the amazing

Catherine Sullivan’s work skips between historical periods and locations, connecting Baroque ideas of ‘all the world as a stage’ with an individual’s subjectivity

Sharon Lockhart makes rigorously formal films that complicate the boundaries between fact and fiction

With the proliferation of museums, biennales and fairs, and the sheer amount of work now being made, shown, and sold, the art world has obviously changed substantially over the last 40 or so years. But what have been the most important shifts in art and the structures that surround it? frieze has asked 33 artists, collectors, critics, curators, educators and gallerists to respond.

Rubbish isn’t always a dead-end – sometimes it’s a beginning

Whether scrutinizing the machinations of TV news or the participatory pleasures of karaoke, Phil Collins’ photographs and videos place the role of the media centre stage