The 2013 album is a compelling record of our collective fracturing 

Speaking to frieze editor Andrew Durbin, Rainer discusses the way she resists the myths of the 1960s

New arrangements of artists from across the planet emphasize broad concepts over tidier organizing principles 

Two shows at David Zwirner, New York, champion the artist's ability to capture the sound of a now-bygone world

Food is personal, and so is this issue – the first of frieze to focus on food’s aesthetic, sensorial, political and environmental role in contemporary culture

Remembering a poet who helped define a generation of American writers through his love of gossip, sex and art 

The duo’s latest installation at the Prada Foundation is an incomplete take on contemporary America

The disaster was not a ‘uniquely’ Soviet problem

To address the ‘interesting times’ alluded to in the title of the 58th Venice Biennale, we must challenge the language we use to describe them

In its final season, ‘Veep’ satirizes the heartless ambition driving US politics

Ellis’s paintings are spring-loaded with overlapping references to film and television, current events, art and cartoons.

The television show – the director’s first – is a sequel to his 1997 film of California queer disillusion, Nowhere

‘Gillen suggests that New York is less a place than it is an open-ended idea’

At last, MoMA has restored the dancer, choreographer and filmmaker’s 1980s classic

The artist’s sculpture possessed an almost surreal promise, as if at any moment it might become a Really Living Thing

A group exhibition at Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo, explores invisible worlds that lie beneath and within us

The work of John Hanson, Rob Nilsson and Fred Lonidier establishes a dialectic between a leftist melancholy and a more forward-looking politics

Michel Auder’s show at Martos, reminds us why, despite the optimists, art was never going to find its raison d'être under the current regime

The novelist explored Jewish identity in the US through a lens of frustrated heterosexuality

Senior US Editor Andrew Durbin selects his highlights of the shows in the city during Frieze Week