Issue 208

In our first issue of the new decade, we look back on some of the best (and worst) of the last ten years and find a few reasons to be excited for 2020

What we were looking at (and what we missed) in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of frieze

As Blake’s most comprehensive retrospective to date closes at the ICA, Los Angeles, Shiv Kotecha examines the artist’s three-decade practice, which revels in the infinite variations of identity and pleasure

In collaborations with her community and family, Halsey leans towards the funky, the funny and the queer

Some suggestions for the International Council of Museums

A specially commissioned visual essay by the artist, ahead of his Hammer Museum retrospective

In the era of climate crisis, we all need to rethink how and why we travel

Why we’re excited about new works by Jamie Crewe, Sung Tieu, Rodrigo Hernández and Thảo Nguyên Phan

After a storied career documenting faraway places and ‘outsiders’ closer to home, the German experimental filmmaker turns the lens on her own life in her new feature, Paris Calligrammes

The comedian’s aggressions are meant to produce pleasure, but often result in arguments and criticism

Co-working spaces provide corporate culture for people who don’t have a corporation

Q. What could you imagine doing if you didn’t do what you do? A. Raising goats

The 2013 album is a compelling record of our collective fracturing 

It’s tempting to read Haacke’s longstanding work of institutional critique as prescient. In fact, he’s been an astute observer for long enough to know that current scrutiny of museum ethics is well overdue