From an unfinished Danish magnum opus to the latest title by Annie Ernaux, frieze editors list the books they loved most this year

From a bold architectural intervention in New York to a group exhibition in Los Angeles on the science of sex

From an exhibition that positions paintings as ‘Popstars’ in Tokyo to the inaugural group show of a new curatorial collective in Dubai

At its most moving, the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art asserts that expressions of joy in precarious times are no small feat

Other highlights include Beach Sessions Dance Series in New York and Aruna D’Souza’s Imperfect Solidarities

Performing at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), ‘If you unfolded us’ celebrates Black queer love and kinship that persist despite violent climates

The artist’s use of avatars and digital doppelgangers explores labour and somatic memory

An exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, New York, assembles the late artist’s sculptural work marked by a slow-burning strangeness that resists the potentially dampening effects of art-historical discourse

Cassie Packard explores the changing status of live art in the white cube

Driven by an enduring fascination with acoustic arts, the LA-based artist explores the spatial and material dimensions of sound

At Museum of the Moving Image, New York, a retrospective of the artist reveals an enchantment with technology’s possibilities and a disillusionment with its uses

Cassie Packard reflects on the U.S. Supreme Court landmark decisions on copyright and its implications for artists

For her homecoming show at Queens Museum, the artist's absurdist experiments draw attention to the systems that shape behaviour

Using gay print magazines, the artist makes collages that imagine intersectional queer communities

At Amant, Brooklyn, the women-led group show fluidly reimagines the mythological creature in a media-spanning exhibition

A recent survey at the Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, celebrates a career-long preoccupation with biomorphic forms

An intimate show of 12 paintings at Salon 94, New York, showcases the Egyptian-born artist’s dreamlike tableaux 

At Acquavella Galleries, ‘Erotic Abstraction’, curated by Eleanor Nairne, presents the works of both artists together for the first time

The new documentary is packed with original footage and voice recordings from the late artist

Premiering in the US and UK this month, Céline Sciamma’s lesbian period drama employs the myth of Orpheus to re-centre the female gaze