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

Specially commissioned recipes by nine artists, including Otobong Nkanga, Heather Phillipson and Rirkrit Tiravanija, ranging from abstract to delectable 

The art world’s dining rituals reinforce its class barriers – which is why we should value the museum coffee

From Louis XIV to #foodporn, feasting has always been for the eyes

How dystopian literature influenced the meal replacement industry

Jesse Connuck on works by Congolese Plantation Workers Art League & Renzo Martens, Torolab and Annalee Davis

A Series on the Senses: Smell

A Series on the Senses: Touch

A Series on the Senses: Sight

A Series on the Senses: Hearing

A Series on the Senses: Taste

The lumbung, or rice barn, sets the stage for the group’s documenta opening in 2022

‘The past must be enriched’: An interview with leading French sociologists Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre

‘We are being poisoned because we have been severed from who we are’

Reckoning with the legacy of Jim Harrison, whose writing portrayed women like meals – meant to give pleasure and comfort, without having any hunger themselves

Ahead of her retrospective at London’s Whitechapel Gallery, the artist speaks to contributing editor Fernanda Brenner about the themes of hunger and hybridity in her work

Artist Dena Yago on food, affect and the Silicon Valley workplace

Q. What would we find in your fridge? A. Shipwreck casserole and sailor’s duff

The artist reflects on the natural organisms and systems that have inspired his work at Salmon Creek Farm

From climate-resistant menus to colonial desserts, Cooking Sections ask us to think again about the ethics and economics of the food on our plates

‘Queer Spaces’ at Whitechapel Gallery documents the disappearance of many of London’s LGBTQ+ venues

At Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Simon’s art is a prescient critique of art-making itself

In Rezaire’s work, prehistoric West African landmarks stand for enigmas of the past and future

Considering our scripted future at Helsinki Contemporary 

The artist’s montages, at David Lewis, New York, are elegant but cryptic reflections on belonging and complicity

The works on paper at Parker Gallery, in Los Angeles, ‘encounter memories, fantasies and dream images along the way’

At the Met Breuer, a winding path guides viewers through the late artist’s seductive, organic sculptures 

The artist’s witty, immersive retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario broaches basketball, Indigenous culture and gay desire 

A group exhibition at ACCA, Melbourne, ‘pulls back the skin on suffering and selfhood’

In the French artist’s evocative exhibition at Marcelle Alix, Paris, blind spots transform into vantage points

A new show at Richard Saltoun begs the question – how effective is self-inflicted violence?

At Singapore’s Yeo Workshop, the artist unsettles the image of Southeast Asia as a tropical getaway

As her retrospective at MAXXI in Rome attests, the late Italian artist believed in the power of the imagination to save lives 

At Museo Jumex, Mexico City, the father of the readymade gets overshadowed by bluster

The artist’s new series of paintings at Berlin’s Galerie Barbara Weiss unseats our fantasies of concealment

The triumphant virtuosity of Euler’s latest paintings at Berlin’s Galerie Neu

At The Drawing Center, New York, artists and writers envision a world free of racism, sexism, colonialism and homophobia

Two riveting shows, at Centre Pompidou-Metz and Basel’s Museum Tinguely, showcase the 75-year-old German artist’s ingenious capacity for invention

At Richard Gray Gallery, sociological statistics meet medieval sculpture in a powerful commentary on black life in the US 

‘The Construction of the Possible’ is the uneven result of a clash between artists and the Cuban government

‘Água Viva’ is a vision of a run-down and resource-scarce future

The Black female gaze shines resiliently through the stormy surfaces of the artist’s paintings on view at Hauser & Wirth

With over 100 works, ‘Straying from the Line’ brings together superb work under the rubric of anti-essentialism

Spread across four German cities, this year’s ‘Ruhr Ding’ explores art in public space in a former industrial region

From her kitchen table in Canterbury, the Australian curator quietly reinvented the exhibition format

In his first show at Callicoon Fine Arts in New York, the artist probes the ways we use – and abuse – objects  

Their latest show at Kölnischer Kunstverein sees the post-conceptual duo bite into the exclusionary social realities of art making

At Kolkata’s Experimenter, the collective find coincidence and contradiction in the archive of The Hindu newspaper

A survey of the artist’s paintings and sculptures at Chicago’s Kavi Gupta skewers drug companies’ marketing tactics in the midst of the US opioid crisis

Kasper reflects on a world in which everyone is a critic, every space a studio

At once elegiac and angry, a new show of paintings illuminates the filmmaker’s ambivalent relationship with religion

At the Brooklyn Museum, a landmark exhibition of never-before-seen photographs captures a rich spectrum of postwar American life

For her show in Grand-Hornu, the artist delves into the Mundaneum, a 19th-century utopian project to classify all human knowledge

In her solo show at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in New York, the artist’s precision leaves all possible disorder to signification

A group show at SOAS, London, explores the complex, often violent, cultural legacies that have shaped the country 

At Hive, Beijing, Yu Linhan’s abstract representations of medical equipment are unsettling and beautiful

A two-part survey of the artist’s work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts foregrounds dialogue as a radical political act

The painter’s first European retrospective since the 1960s finally allows her to step out of Jackson Pollock’s shadow

At Bombas Gens, Valencia, a retrospective of the terrestrial geographies of the overlooked painter

A new exhibition at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery feels at once reminiscent and foreboding

More than 80 works from four decades mine the tension between beauty and horror