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‘I was 13, with a group of friends, and it was my first time hearing anything so Black and British – and, also, so working class’

‘Some have mattered more to the living Jalal, others to the dead one indulging in jouissance’

‘When I read that essay, I literally feel some kind of space opening up: I can breathe’

‘I would like to dedicate this tribute to all of Zidane’s fans (of whom I am one)’

‘It would be easy to cry to this tune, but difficult to dance to it’

‘At the first site, the freedom of the United States of America is honoured; at the second, the history of its immigrants is conserved’

‘Your songs are always full of colour and samples, beats and melodies, dizzying rhythms and more melodies still’

‘No other type of cinema in recent decades has worshipped reality in this intense manner’

‘The way she stumbled on stage, with her smeared lips and perfect legs, appeared at once criminally affected and wildly persuasive’

‘Metaphorically, wearing an eye mask bids farewell to this desire to know, instead, one must rely on something unknown’

Hamza Walker, director of LAXART, has selected five eminent jazz musicians to perform during Frieze Music presented with BMW

‘It embodies the qualities of enthusiasm, enquiry and toe-curling earnestness that art can’t exist without’

‘Over the radio, he asked listeners a simple question: what is your favourite sound of Beijing?’

‘His works are imbued with such rare emotional acuity and nuance that it is hard not to be first stunned and, then, deeply moved’

‘He wasn’t English, but he was playing an English game, the fag in the Establishment, a light entertainer, undisguised yet somehow unseen, an open secret’

‘The Western that heroized pioneers unsettling the West was moribund. Unforgiven, an anti-Western Western, buried it.’

‘The idea of wearing them while painting is a really great image’

‘A magical, fucked-up masterpiece’

‘Released following the musician’s death in 1993, the album is an extraordinary swan song: morose, comical and utterly preposterous’

‘The bold, deep, shoulder-shaking beats of the new-jack sound era’