Jennifer Higgie

With the spotlight at the Venice Biennale falling all-too-often on the 30 national pavilions in the Giardini, writer Jennifer Higgie asks whether this 19th-century format still makes sense

These are the top shows to see in January – from an extensive display of Indigenous Australian stories in Plymouth to a joint Renée Green retrospective in Berlin

At The Box, Plymouth, the paradigm-shifting show presents more than 300 paintings, sculptures, ceramics, weavings and films in blazing celebration of the profoundly rich culture

Jennifer Higgie visits Plymouth’s new museum to explore its rich collection spanning centuries, geographical locations, and artistic media

Jennifer Higgie on how the mirror’s mass production changed the course of art history – and liberated women artists

Mining executives knew the spiritual value of the ancient Indigenous site – and they blew it up anyway

The film proposes Ancient Egypt as something far more alive than its ruins might suggest

A long-overdue exhibition at London’s National Gallery shines a light on a great baroque artist

Presented in partnership with BMW, Lianne La Havas gave an exclusive solo performance followed by a live conversation with frieze’s Jennifer Higgie for a special episode of podcast Bow Down

‘My Garden’s Boundaries Are the Horizon’ at the Garden Museum, London

‘Love, Desire, Death’ at the National Gallery, London, brings together six late works that pose questions about our current world

Mark Cousins’s ‘Women Make Film’ celebrates 130 years of cinema by 183 female directors 

Curator Brook Andrew’s proposal that creativity is an important means of truth-telling is a bolt of much-needed optimism

Despite being full of great work, this show is at once too broad in its remit and too narrow in its execution

For a new series of columns on armchair travelling, editor at large Jennifer Higgie travels the myriad digital alleys of the French capital

Within the chaos murmurs an incoherent hope in this ambitious – and at times baffling – exhibition

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

A new series about significant women artists from the past who deserve our attention

Some thoughts on transience, in art and life