 She died in Los Angeles on October 9, 2009, at the age of 57.Friedberg lectured widely in the United States and elsewhere, including invited talks in Berlin, Frankfurt, Bonn, Vienna, Tokyo, Montreal, Bern, Lausanne, Stockholm, Prague, and at the Guggenheim Museum/NY, Art Institute/Chicago, and Getty Museum/LA.In 2001–2002, she was a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute.