Issue 211

‘Technological advancement does not assuage our fears’

Warburg has been credited with both inventing and destroying art history

Short fiction inspired by Aby Warburg’s ‘Panel B’

Is this art? Science? Who cares?

‘There is pain and suffering in these pictures, but also pure possibility’

‘This is how you walk through water’

The New York-based photographer answers our questionnaire

Before Twitter, Félix Fénéon’s daily ‘novels in three lines’ made a literary art form of current affairs

Ahead of his new work, filmed on a boat in Venice, an interview with the Italian auteur

From @jerrygogosian to @bradtroemel, memes have become a primary method of institutional critique

On the video-sharing app, laughter lubricates the wheels of the desperation train

Why be part of the art world when you can just crash the party? 

The critic’s folksy guide, How to Be an Artist, includes some valuable insight on the creative process 

Frieze magazine has been redesigned, beginning with our May/June issue

The artist’s installation – based on the interior of a nearby gay cruising bar – invokes a haunted sense of refuge

At Museo Jumex, Mexico City, a retrospective of the pioneering architect’s key projects shows how she worked to tear down class and racial barriers in Brazilian society

Through her spatial interventions at Établissement d’en face, Brussels, the artist reflects on the layering between art and politics 

An exhibition at Jan Kaps, Cologne, stresses the trauma of economic transformations in formerly socialist countries

The artist’s photographs of domestic spaces, souks and bodegas, displayed on 100 bus stops around New York and at Helena Anrather, are ‘altogether unworldly’ 

Global pandemic may have altered our sense of time but, in the Chinese artist’s work, the present is an illusion anyway