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From a Distance
How can cultural institutions best respond to political crises? by Tirdad Zolghadr
State of the Art
Free Speech
Censorship and the art world by Jennifer Higgie
Architecture
Informant
Shadow Lands
Great buildings that were never built by George Pendle
Interview
Music
To coincide with the publication of his new book Retromania, Simon Reynolds talks about pop’s obsession with its immediate past by Dan Fox
Film
Dream Factory
Sigmund Freud goes to the movies by John Menick
Ideal Syllabus
Ideal Syllabus: Gabriel Lester
In an ongoing series, frieze asks an artist, curator or writer to list the books that have influenced them
Icons
Changing Faces
The many iconic images of the late Elizabeth Taylor by Richard Flood
Books
Unpacking David Foster Wallace’s library and the publication of his unfinished final novel by Hermione Hoby
Interview
On Reflection
After the opening last year of the Lee Ufan Museum – a collaboration with the architect Tadao Ando on Naoshima Island, Japan – and ahead of his largest retrospective to date, at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Lee Ufan talks to Melissa Chiu about his five decades as an artist, writer and philosopher by Dr. Melissa Chiu
Questionnaire
Questionnaire: R.H. Quaytman
What’s your favourite journey? Leaving.
Film
Reel Life
Working between documentaries and blockbusters, Brazilian director José Padilha is reviving the legacy of neo-realism by Bert Rebhandl
Survey
State of a Nation
On the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification, curators and critics respond to the country’s political crisis and its effect on cultural institutions with Gabriella Belli, Cecilia Canziani, Massimiliano Gioni, Francesco Manacorda and Alessandro Rabottini by Barbara Casavecchia
Focus
Focus: Dianna MolzanRegistered only
Deconstructed canvases and layers of reference by Katie Kitamura
Focus
Focus: Christian Andersson
Museological display, truth, fiction and ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ by Ronald Jones
Focus
Focus: Amalia Pica
Facts and false memories; nostalgia and ciphers of experience by Sally O'Reilly
Art Writing
Literature
Works on PaperRegistered only
The lives and deaths of fictional artists by Sam Thorne
Monograph
Marine Core
Exploring the historical and metaphorical parameters of ‘the marine’ in the installations, sculptures and wall pieces of Cosima von Bonin by John C. Welchman
Monograph
Body Image
The sculptures and installations of Anthea Hamilton stage the complexities of interpretation and desire by Martin Herbert |