On the occasion of a major touring retrospective that marks four decades of the artist’s work, Michael Famighetti considers the changing American landscape in the photographs of Robert Adams

Shepherds and colonialism, appropriation and the Romantic tradition

The Los Angeles-based filmmaker discusses cities, soundtracks and landscapes

Eli Sudbrack of assume vivid astro focus writes about the people, places and artists that have influences his collaborative multimedia practice

British artist David Batchelor talks to Cuban-American painter Carmen Herrera about her 80 years of making art

How Paul Elliman responds to the spaces, objects, words and sounds that surround him

Conflict, communion and making human presence resonate in the landscape

Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi and Mark Fisher discuss exhaustion, the financial crisis, aesthetic resistance and the ‘slow cancellation of the future’

What can art teach us about happiness?

New Year Quiz

On limousines, road trips and mobility

On working as an artist in Beirut today

Trevor Paglen and the final frontier

Taking part in Tino Sehgal’s These associations

How Occupy influenced New York’s art scene

Three new publications about globalization and contemporary curating

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

The chess-playing automaton that defeated Napoleon

Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK

The paintings, drawings and animations of Tala Madani

Meaning, memory and mockery

Q. What should stay the same? A. Clean air, clean earth, clean water.

Eli Sudbrack of assume vivid astro focus writes about the people, places and artists that have influences his collaborative multimedia practice

The French composer's purpose was to find a breach in the fortress of musical tradition, open up ‘fissures of randomness for the poetic adventure to slip through’