Conversations and debates with leading figures from contemporary art, design, music, literature, activism and technology – taking place daily at Frieze Fairs and beyond.
A conversation with Brett Littman (Director, Noguchi Foundation and Sculpture Garden), Pedro Reyes (artist) and Meg Webster (artist).
Andrew Durbin (writer) in conversation with TJ Wilcox (artist)
Writer Aruna D’Souza in conversation with Nico Wheadon (Director, Public Programs & Community Engagement, Studio Museum in Harlem) and Sable Elyse Smith (artist)
Sheila Heti (writer) in conversation with Josephine Decker (performer, filmmaker)
Daniel Birnbaum, curator of the LIFEWTR-supported VR exhibition Electric at Frieze New York, talks with two acclaimed emerging artists whose art practice harnesses the possibilities opened by new technology: Sarah Ludy and Rachel Rossin.
Simone Leigh (writer and scholar) in conversation with artist Saidiya Hartman.
A conversation on the future of art galleries between Marc Glimcher (President and CEO, Pace Gallery) and Andrew Goldstein (Editor, artnet).
Weatherford has emerged as one of today’s preeminent abstract painters. Her signature large scale painterly canvases incorporate neon tubes. Hudson is Associate Professor of History and Fine Arts at the University of Southern California. Her current book,
Frieze Talks with Liz Larner and Ariana Reines in conversation
With artist Sayre Gomez, writer Janelle Zara and LAXART curator Catherine Taft. Moderated by the FT’s Jan Dalley.
Travis Diehl (Online Editor, X-Tra), Clare Kelly (Artist & co-founder Hesse Press) and Kandis Williams (Artist & publisher Cassandra Press) in conversation
Frieze Talks with artists Cauleen Smith and Sondra Perry
Hamza Walker and Arthur Jafa play Name That Tune
Presented with the Berggruen Institute
Frieze Talks featuring Rafa Esparza & Ron Athey in conversation
Presented with In Other Words
Kelly Akashi (artist), Kori Newkirk (artist), Eamon Ore-Giron (artist), and Mary Weatherford (artist) on conversation
Presented with the Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Luma Foundation founder Maja Hoffman in conversation with Frank Gehry and Hans Ulrich obrist
With Kristy Edmunds, Susan Nimoy, Sarah Arison and Olivia Marciano, presented with UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance
Professor Fred Moten (Department of Performance Studies, NYU) in conversation with artist Sondra Perry
Novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge in conversation with historian Kerri Greenidge and moderated by Rujeko Hockley.
Author Elif Batuman in conversation with writer and editor Negar Azimi
Author Ottessa Moshfegh in conversation with writer Patty Yumi Cottrell.
Author Yuri Herrera in conversation with artists Carlos Amorales and Abraham Cruzvillegas
Kemang Wa Lehulere (artist, Cape Town) in conversation at Frieze Talks 2018 with Sean O'Toole (writer, Cape Town)
Alfredo Jaar (artist), Yasufumi Nakamori (Minneapolis Institute of Art) and Mark Sealey (Autograph ABP) for a discussion on ‘Art & Politics’, focusing on the fair's Spotlight section
Peter Blake in conversation with the National Gallery's Collin Wiggins
Jennifer Higgie (editor of frieze and Frieze Masters magazines) will host a panel on ‘The Aesthetics of Display’ with Michael Craig-Martin (artist), Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (Castelli di Rivoli, Turin) and Luke Syson (The Met, New York).
Marina Abramović (artist) in conversation with Tim Marlow (Artistic Director, Royal Academy, London)
Lynda Benglis (artist) in conversation with Eike Schmidt (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)
Isaac Julien (artist) will be in conversation with Nicholas Cullinan (National Portrait Gallery, London)
How can an artist enact change? How long is the timeframe to view such efforts?
Artist Laura Owens in conversation with MoMA Chief Curator Ann Temkin
What are the utopian and dystopian qualities of the desert that draw artists over generations?
Many of the giants of Western art arguably produced their most exciting work deep into old age. What are the reasons for this?
Cornelia Parker and Dr Maria Balshaw CBE in discussion.
What role do fashion and gesture play in historical painting? The discussion, chaired by Tim Marlow (Artistic Director, Royal Academy of Arts, London) will focus on a group of works selected by the panel from Frieze Masters.
Artist Marlene Dumas discusses portraiture with an introduction by Jennifer Higgie.
Alison Gingeras chairs a discussion with Nancy Grossman and Joan Semmel on Feminist art.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Gabriele Finaldi in conversation with Tim Marlow
Carroll Dunham (Artist) & James Rondeau (President and Eloise W. Martin Director, Art Institute of Chicago) in conversation.
What place does contemporary art have in historical museums – and vice versa? An international panel of museum curators and directors will consider both the opportunities and pitfalls of mixing up the art of different eras.
Philippe Parreno (artist) & Nancy Spector (Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Brooklyn Museum) in conversation.
Lee 'Scratch' Perry is a legendary musician and producer, and is widely regarded as one of the godfathers of reggae and dub.
What can art do in times of emergency? We invite all Frieze London visitors to this special summit to debate the question.
How do artists use the fluidity of identity and performative languages to navigate in larger social and institutional structures?
Omar Kholeif, Fatima al Qadiri, Pablo León del la Barra and Adelita Husni-Bey debate the role of borders – and how the arts can traverse them – in our current political climate.
What has changed since the year that frieze magazine was born in London in 1991? How far has the contemporary art world come since the decade of the YBAs, and what was it really like to be on the ground in London at the time?
Artists will debate the social and communal aspects of borders.
Moderated by writer Louisa Buck, Nathalie de Gunzburg and James Meyer discuss their interest in art from 1960 to the present.