Jan Verwoert writes about the 1990s, ‘New Innocence’, popular TV shows and the ethics of profanity

Have crowded museums and galleries put an end to uninterrupted contemplation?

The re-writing of art history in South Africa

The death and resurrection of photography in a digitized world

In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice

The rise of ‘dark tourism’ poses the question: are works of art as powerful as the sites they attempt to memorialize?

The resurgence of interest in Italian Modernists demonstrates the European avant-garde’s influence on a new generation of artists

René Girard (Michigan State University Press, 2009)

Arthur C. Danto (Yale University Press, 2009)

Stephen T. Asma (Oxford University Press, 2009)

Richard Skelton (Type, 2010)

Spacemen 3 (Fire Records, 1987/2009)

Pantha du Prince (Rough Trade, 2010)

Filmmakers, writers and theorists, The Otolith Group mine the past in order to understand what's yet to come

An interview with American artist Sharon Hayes

Zhang Huan explores his interests in transience, Buddhism and the revitalization of traditional Chinese craftsmanship

Suspension, isolation, anticipation; frozen moments, ghostly flowers and floodlit nights

Memory, word games and puzzles; knots, conjuring tricks and cinema

Pleated fabrics, dresses and made-to-measure sculptures; cigarettes, tailoring and shop windows

Architectural Association, London, UK

Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany

Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, USA

A Dutch–Arabic typography project shows increasing compatibility between strikingly different languages and cultures

Cokkie Snoei, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Working through abjection and attraction, the sculptures of the late Alina Szapocznikow engender the politics of emotion

Dia at the Hispanic Society of America, New York, USA

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts / Harvard Art Museum, Boston, USA

The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK

Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France

Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany

The Showroom, London, UK

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India

Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico

Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria

Thomas Dane Gallery and Karsten Schubert, London, UK

Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA

greengrassi, London, UK

Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany

The Kitchen, New York, USA

Les Ateliers Jean Brilliant, Montreal, Canada

The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel

Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Rob Tufnell at 1 Sutton Lane, London, UK

From tableaux vivants to Photoshop, the philosophical and optical enquiries of Pietro Roccasalva inevitably return to painting

80WSE Galleries, New York University/Participant Inc, New York, USA

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