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From a characteristically tongue-in-cheek Yoko Ono exhibition to a group show on the ‘Imaginary Institution of India’

BY Lou Selfridge |

Two very different Frieze Week shows by southern African women artists explore ‘how we might break apart knowledge’

BY Gazelle Mba |

From 4th-century Hindu sculpture to modernist photography, discover the South Asian artists who revolutionized creative culture at home and abroad

The artist's short films document how children from across the world navigate their environment through play

BY Nevan Spier |

From a posthumous Martin Wong retrospective in Camden to Matthew Arthur Williams’s sensitive debut in Dundee 

BY Sean Burns |

New section Modern Women at Frieze Masters and much anticipated shows at the Barbican and Tate Britain in London offer unconventional histories of art by women

BY Louisa Elderton |

The poet and critic Simone White considers the artist’s formative work Mirror Mirror (1987–88)

BY Simone White |

From South Korean pop ephemera to Marina Abramović's transitional states of being

BY frieze |

As several galleries celebrate birthdays, Hettie Judah speaks to Barbican Stories and directors of BALTIC, ICA, Midlands Art Centre and Yorkshire Sculpture Park about founding principles and future plans

BY Hettie Judah |

For her first UK exhibition at London’s Barbican, the artist builds a narrative of two lovers caught up in a matriarchal society

BY Rianna Jade Parker |

From enfant terrible of British ballet to a retrospective at the Barbican Gallery, how the choreographer and performer found a home in the contemporary art world 

BY Brian Dillon |

Sean Burns profiles the filmmaker and DJ, a friend to generations of artists, designers and club-goers

BY Sean Burns |

As a show about cabaret culture opens at the Barbican, it’s worth remembering that nightclubs are about more than just a good time

BY Paul Clinton |

Three current photography shows in London demonstrate how structures of power influence visual culture

BY Ellen Mara De Wachter |

Two shows in London, by Yto Barrada and Ala Younis, suggest that the unwritten future need not be as unjust or limiting as the erased past

BY Darran Anderson |

Barbican, London, UK

BY Charlie Fox |

frieze associate editor Paul Clinton talks to curator and Professor of Fashion and Museology at London College of Fashion, Judith Clark, about the challenges of curating exhibitions of fashion and dress

Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK

BY Hettie Judah |

From the Spiritualist origins of Ghostbusters to an interview with Luc Sante: what to read this weekend

BY Paul Clinton |

The personal process of exhibition-making

BY Isobel Harbison |