Dirty Projectors (Domino, 2009)

Various Artists (Mordant Music, 2009)

Judith Butler (Verso, London, 2009)

Despite the decline of Ireland’s ‘Celtic Tiger’ economy, Dublin’s artist-run and institutional spaces are thriving

Cracking the codes of Conceptual art

Jennifer Higgie on the women who turned their backs

Human cameras, fortune tellers, unreliable memories – in Lindsay Seers’ work, the truth is not what it seems

Joan Jonas talks about the evolution of her work and the importance of myth, music and history to her thinking

Various locations, New Zealand

Parody, intrigue and innuendo; time travel, referentiality and social comedy

Sophie Calle tells frieze her dream job: secret agent

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

Bohemianism, grass-roots activism, urban regeneration and the voices of the dead

Ghosts in popular culture are being replaced. What does this reveal about our changing attitudes to death?

A recent performance about masculinity and sport revealed cultural exclusion within the art world

What it means to have countless namesakes on Google

The intertwining of business, finance, art and numerology

Enigmas, paradoxes and riddles: photographs of sculptures and sculptures of photographs

Thomas Bayrle’s long and varied career as an artist reveals a sensibility shaped in equal parts by humour, absurdity and social criticism

Panoramic historical narratives are alive and well in the world of comics

Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA

Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China

Wall texts in museums and galleries are meant to elucidate and educate, why are most badly written, full of jargon, and painfully reductive?

Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics (Strut Records, 2009)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Various Venues, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Tate Liverpool, UK

New Museum, New York, USA

Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

South London Gallery, UK

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA

Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany

westlondonprojects, London, UK

Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria

Generator Projects, Dundee, UK

Santa Monica Museum of Art, USA

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

Modern Art Oxford, UK

Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany

Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany

Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA

Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden

MUDAM, Luxembourg

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA

www.thepoliticsintheroom.org

Artist, composer and filmmaker Tony Conrad in conversation

Mark von Schlegell (Semiotext(e), Los Angeles, 2009)

Owen Hatherley (Zero Books, Winchester, 2009)

Et tu Brute, then fall, Caesar! 

A project by Jeffrey Vallance