The rapidly changing scene of the Chinese capital

frieze asked critics and curators from around the world to choose what they were looking forward to in 2006

A discussion with Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick, the team curating the 4th Berlin Biennial

Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, has been chosen to host Manifesta 6 in September, 2006. The curatorial team comprises Mai Abu ElDahab, an independent curator based in Cairo; Florian Waldvogel, a curator and writer living in Frankfurt and Essen; and Anton Vidokle, a Moscow-born artist who lives in New York, and who is a founding director of e-flux. Inspired by Black Mountain College, which opened in 1933 in North Carolina, and whose teachers and students included some of the most important artists, writers and thinkers of the time, the Manifesta team intends to start an experimental art school in Nicosia

Lisette Lagnado is Chief Curator of the 27th San Paulo Biennial which will open in October, 2006. Lagnado’s pioneering approach to the work of Hélio Oiticica will be incorporated into the framework of the Biennial, which is titled ‘Borderless Blocks’

frieze asked critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant shows and artists of 2005

frieze asked critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant shows and artists of 2005

frieze asked critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant shows and artists of 2005

frieze asked critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant shows and artists of 2005

Curated by Alex Farquharson and Andrea Schlieker, the British Art Show 6 opened at Baltic, Gateshead in September and will be touring to Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol. What does it reflect about the relationship between culture and geography in the UK?

frieze asked critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant shows and artists of 2005

From newspapers to dresses, the design highlights of the last year

The best art and literature books of 2005

An interview with Richard Burdett, Professor of Architecture and City Planning at the London School of Economics, who is curating the 10th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice in 2006

From Hollywood thriller and 11-hour Filipino epic to Minimalist monuments in celluloid, favourite films of the year

Looking forward

Free-Folk, Grime, R&B, the return of Hardcore – what defined pop music in 2005?

Has the magnitude of China’s second Cultural Revolution only been noticed by those with vested interests?

Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla live and work in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They have forthcoming solo shows at The Moore Space, Miami and The Renaissance Society, Chicago.

Emily King talks to Richard Burdett, Professor of Architecture and City Planning at the London School of Economics, who is curating the 10th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice in 2006

The recent boom in prediction markets has added a streak of clinical capitalism to the prophecy industry

There is a fine line between representing other people’s suffering and perpetuating it. In much contemporary art the exploitation of misery could be termed ‘poornography’