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The Scapegoating of Trans People in Trump’s America

1 month ago | frieze.com | McKenzie Wark

In countless ways, both great and small, the right is making life hard for trans people. Meanwhile, many on the left and centre now also openly debate whether we should be sacrificed for some notion of the ‘greater good’. It’s as if everyone wants to wash their hands of us – like Pontius Pilate. Nobody really knows how many trans people there are, but estimates suggest less than one percent of the US population. A one percent that is mostly powerless and broke, if not outright homeless.
‘Pictures for Everyone’: Foto Arsenal Wien Opens to the Public

1 month ago | frieze.com | Charlotte Jansen

This week, Foto Arsenal Wien opens to the public. Vienna’s first dedicated institution for photography, it is led by artistic director Felix Hoffmann, an established scholar in the medium and former chief curator of C/O Berlin.
‘Opus’: Another Eat-the-Rich Horror Film that Falls Flat

1 month ago | frieze.com | Ian Bourland

This week, I invited a movie-buff friend to see Opus (2025), which was touted as a ‘horror-musical’. He declined, stating, ‘It’s been attempted, but never pulled off.’ He was right: the film – in which rookie reporter Ariel Ecton (Ayo Edebiri) is invited to the remote compound of an aging pop icon – was neither scary nor especially musical. In an early scene, Ecton laments the slow progress of her climb from celebrity profiler to outright celebrity.
How Donatella Versace Took Fashion into the Digital Age

1 month ago | frieze.com | Hannah Tindle

In September 1999, as the world teetered on the edge of a new millennium and the dot-com bubble was ever-expanding, Donatella Versace presented her S/S 2000 collection at Milan Fashion Week – her third season as successor to her late brother, and company founder, Gianni. ‘Versace’s requisite ingredients were all present: sex, bright colours and rock-hard attitude,’ American Vogue wrote in its review of the show.
Mastering the Art of Archive Filmmaking

1 month ago | frieze.com | Juliet Jacques

‘The invention of film in the 1890s meant the 20th century could be recorded like none before; the advent of the World Wide Web 100 years later has given filmmakers unprecedented access to historical moving images, making it easier than ever to find an audience for works made using relatively cheap and accessible digital editing software.’ This is how I introduce my short course at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London, where I attempt to teach the basics of archive filmmaking in four days.
Laura Owens’s Painted Sugar Rush

1 month ago | frieze.com | Wendy Vogel

Amid the visual overwhelm on display in Laura Owens’s eponymous exhibition, which spans two of Matthew Marks Gallery’s Manhattan spaces, an abiding image is the candy cigarette. Within the reception desk – itself an artwork, Untitled, 2025 – at 522 West 22nd Street, the artist has stashed several hand-painted faux cigarette cartons.
Editor’s Picks: The Defiance of Novelist Edna O’Brien

1 month ago | frieze.com | Sean Burns

Frieze Editor’s Picks is a fortnightly column in which a frieze editor shares their recommendations for what to watch, read and listen to. Sinéad O’Shea, Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story (2025) In the opening minutes of Sinéad O’Shea’s Blue Road (2025), a new documentary about Edna O’Brien, the celebrated writer’s gentle west-of-Ireland voice murmurs over footage of her younger self: ‘I was born with this ability and demon to write.
The Unsettling Embrace of Hannah Levy

1 month ago | frieze.com | Meka Boyle

Ripe and bulbous, or spiky and penetrative, Hannah Levy’s works exist in a state of tension. Silicone is stretched, continuously; glass is frozen in time; metal acts as a support or a directional vector. The works continue to evolve once on display: they accumulate dust and residue through touch, their physicality mediated by their environment. Levy likens this to sweaty skin sticking to a leather car seat on a hot day. Some of her works look like they are about to ricochet across the room.
The Joyful Vision of David Hockney

1 month ago | frieze.com | Sean Burns

After a lifetime of gallivanting between London, Los Angeles and his hometown of Bridlington in the north of England, David Hockney found himself spending the COVID-19 lockdown in his farmhouse in the small Normandy village of Beuvron-en-Auge. To pass the hours of isolation, he began producing a series of landscapes on his iPad – an at-hand device he has been using since 2010 for observational drawings.
Editor’s Picks: Chappell Roan’s Sapphic Country Single

1 month ago | frieze.com | Cassie Packard

Frieze Editor’s Picks is a fortnightly column in which a frieze editor shares their recommendations for what to watch, read and listen to. Chappell Roan’s ‘The Giver’ CampaignIt took months after Chappell Roan performed her new lesbian country single ‘The Giver’ on Saturday Night Live – crooning in a gingham ensemble that she ‘get[s] the job done’ – until the official release date (13 March) was announced. In between, she launched a campy promotional campaign to tide her fans over.