Looking Back

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

Pablo Larios highlights the damaging effects of network fatigue in contemporary art 

Is 2018 the year that we abandon an outdated form of stand-up comedy?

The Berlin-based artist Veit Laurent Kurz shares his favourite shows of the year

This year saw the publication of a rich vein of books about motherhood and women’s work

The glitter of Shanghai’s international art week masks darker changes in the cultural sphere of the People’s Republic 

At Studio Voltaire, London, the artists have transformed the former chapel into a wild Wilde Gesamtkunstwerk

A private show in Stuttgart to neo-Nazi demos in Berlin, queer lessons in times of change

In a year marked by anger and powerlessness, artists set their sights on empowering counter-narratives

From environmentalist epics to Norse mythology and the re-emergence of Russian cosmism: John Holten surveys the best books of 2018

From Charlotte Prodger’s Turner Prize win to Glasgow School of Art’s gutted Mackintosh building, a sometimes fraught and rarely dull year in Scotland

Despite the ‘golden age of television’ now behind us, several convincing and self-confident series caught our attention

It is not unusual for Cuban artists to grumble about excessive state meddling, but it’s rare for complaints to be aired publicly and collectively

The best films, books and shows focusing on representations of gay life in 2017

A year of protest and performance in Los Angeles

Berlin-based DJ and producer M.E.S.H. (James Whipple) on the books, events and music that made his year

Melissa Gronlund on the best of a bad year: from activists in Jakarta, images of Mecca and labour negotiations in the UAE

In a year marked by natural disasters, some of the best exhibitions in Latin America were attempts to make sense of the environment

From Anthropocenic doom in Cecilia Alemani’s Italian Pavilion in Venice to Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting in a Room at d14

Raqs Media Collective on their 2017, from a séance with an 18th century automaton-tiger to imagined conversations with Édouard Glissant