In recent years, alternative academies and artist-led education projects have proliferated. Sam Thorne of frieze asks international artists and curators: How do these endeavours reflect on conventional art education—and what can we learn from them?

For his commission, Sell and Destroy: Redrawing the Bottom Line, Mike Bouchet presents a motivational speaker for the exhibitors and public of Frieze Art Fair. Alex MacPhail is an expert at empowering large audiences to master their motivation and achieve their full potential, both on the day and long into the future.

Dave Hickey (cultural critic and Professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas) presents a keynote lecture exploring how sites of commerce have evolved from the white cube to the art fair, and considers the question: How to Sell, without Selling Out?

The relationship between photojournalism and ‘art photography' is often strained and ambiguous. Christy Lange of frieze asks three artists in the field of photography: How do contemporary artists accept or reject the strategies of reportage, and to what effect?

Concurrent with his exhibition ‘Bit Rot' at Witte de With, Rotterdam, Douglas Coupland, artist and author of works including the seminal Generation X, talks with Emily Segal of the trend-forecasting group K-HOLE.

Beatriz Milhazes (b. 1960, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro) is known for painting works that combine Modernist painting with Brazilian cultural imagery. Milhazes' works are included in the world's leading institutions including: Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid.

Prof. Martin Roth has been the Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London since September 2011. Previously, Roth was Director General of the Dresden State Art Collections (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden).

After photographing in Andy Warhol's Factory, Stephen Shore travelled across the US, photographing using colour film at a time when it was considered unworthy of art photography. Shore surveys the evolution of his work over the past 40 years in a conversation with renowned writer and curator of photography, David Campany.

In a career that has spanned over 50 years, Agnès Varda, one of the most original and renowned of the French ‘nouvelle vague' directors, has made over 40 innovative feature films and documentaries. The Beaches of Agnès, won both a 2009 César and a Critics' Union award for best film. In this lecture, she talks about her extraordinary life and work, from cinema to art.

A conversation chaired by music critic Simon Reynolds examines how the notion of subculture has become outmoded - through the overexposure afforded by the internet and the media’s rapid assimilation of the marginal.

Surveying the past, present and future of unpopular culture, figures from the fields of art, music and performance explore the possibility of alternatives to ‘alternative’.

Many of the late-born children of modernism are creating an art caught in a web of historic references.

A panel chaired by frieze Contributing Editor Jan Verwoert asks whether reverence - summoning the ghosts and uncharted potentials of unavowed histories - might be a critical counter-model?