Words, cinema, stories; loneliness and heartache

In an ongoing series, frieze asks an artist to list the movies that have influenced their practice.

Karen Kilimnik’s solo exhibition at the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris runs from 27 October 2006 to 14 January 2007. A mid-career retrospective will open at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia in 2007 and will travel to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Aspen Museum of Art, Colorado.

Since the early 1990s, artist groups have been attempting to empower the socially disadvantaged

Hollywood, disaster movies and the events of 11 September 2001

First built in 1964 the Boeing 737 is still one of the most popular aircrafts in the world. Celebrations for the 5,000th plane to be constructed prompt a reconsideration of what we think of as good design

Parallels can be drawn between Pablo Picasso’s anti-fascist masterpiece and current events in the Middle East

An email debate

The relationship between art, taste, laughter and commerce

An interview with Fischli/Weiss about three decades of slapstick and semiotics, sausages and bears and culture and cats

Whether making drawings, paintings or conceptual projects 'boycotting' women and dropping out from the art world, Lee Lozano wanted to 'participate only in a total revolution simultaneously personal and public'

Since the 17th century, taste has been integral to the discourse surrounding aesthetics, class, culture, gender and sexuality. Has it become an anachronism?

For over a decade Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas has made sculptures from objects as disparate as cake, scythes, boxes, plants and magazines

Hilary Lloyd studies, stages and celebrates movement and gesture in her video and slide installations

Tree planting, photographs, friends, workers, houses and dolls

The decorative and the functional, the hard and the soft

As artistic capitals of postwar Italy, Milan and Turin are expressions of a modern and progressive culture – despite having developed almost contradictory attitudes towards it

Peru, vernacular Modernism, hippie exoticism and the history of cocaine

In conversation with Steve Reich

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA