State of the Art

Lip Service

From the Vatican to the Venice Biennale: the limits to symbolic acts of altruism by Jörg Heiser

Postcard

City Living

The shifting landscape of contemporary art in Beijing by David Spalding

In These Intemperate Times

Decade-ism

How taste and preferences change by Lynne Tillman

Weekend Special

Bodies of Evidence

Artists respond to migration in Africa by Sean O’Toole

Interview

The Italian Job

Massimiliano Gioni discusses his plans for the 55th Venice Biennale, ‘The Encyclopaedic Palace’ by Barbara Casavecchia

Technology

Loop the Loop

A brief history of the GIF by Morgan Quaintance

Books

Books

Oulipo and the re-release of Raymond Queneau’s 1947 Exercises in Style by Charlie Fox

Film

After Life

A new film reconstructs Félix Guattari’s unproduced sci-fi script by Erik Morse

Politics

Dirty Money

An artist-led guided tour of corruption in the Czech Republic by Noemi Smolik

Music

Music

The dub rhythms of artist and composer Marina Rosenfeld by Dan Fox

Ideal Syllabus

Ideal Syllabus: Gary Panter

Artist Gary Panter draws and discusses the books that have influenced him by Gary Panter

Think Piece

Blurred Visions

What do drones see? And how can we see them? by Christy Lange

Monograph

In Your Head

The surreal, oddly familiar world of Nicole Eisenman by Jennifer Higgie

Picture Piece

Picture Piece: Joe Orton’s bedroom

The Islington bedroom where the playright was bludgeoned to death by Ilsa Colsell

Think Piece

Mascots & Muses

From eroticism to transcendence, the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Andy Warhol has many surprising overlaps. Ara H. Merjian traces the affinities and contradictions between an unlikely pair

Focus

In Focus: Petrit Halilaj

The Kosovar artist’s biographical narratives and loaded artefacts

Focus

Focus Interview: Ian Cheng

Motion-capture choreography, street fights, Looney Tunes and ‘hybrid cinema’ by Kari Rittenbach

Monograph

Thought Maps

Gianfranco Baruchello’s long career encompasses painting, sculpture and film as well as farming and psychoanalysis by Luca Cerizza

Interview

Organic Systems

Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas talks to Kathy Noble about creating with clay, sculpture-as-film and team-work by Kathy Noble

Influences

My Influences: Helen Marten

The artist discusses skeuomorphism, skins and soup by Helen Marten

Focus

Focus Case Study: Peles Empire

A collaboration that began with a castle in the Carpathians by Amy Sherlock

Focus

In Focus: Emily Floyd

Utopian Modernism, children’s toys and art in the public realm by Wes Hill

Interview

Other Criteria

From his Conceptual art of the 1960s to his recent computer-generated works, Victor Burgin has consistently explored the virtual nature of images and words. He talked with writer and curator David Campany by David Campany

Think Piece

Studio Spaces

A number of recent exhibitions and artist projects have utilized the architecture of the television studio. How does this tendency relate to TV’s shifting significance as a cultural form? by Maeve Connolly

NYC 1993

New Museum , New York, USA

By Jennifer Kabat

Yoko Ono

Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

By Klaus Walter

The Bride & the Bachelors and Robert Rauschenberg

Barbican Art Gallery / Gagosian gallery, London, UK

By Jeremy Millar

Nayland Blake

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA

By David Everitt Howe

Maya Bloch

Thierry Goldberg, New York, USA

By Ara H. Merjian

The Handler of Gravity

Essex Street, New York, USA

By Wendy Vogel

Ok Huyn Ahn

Showroom 170, New York, USA

By Pablo Larios

Tacita Dean

Marian Goodman, New York, USA

By William Corwin

Josiah McElheny

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, USA

By Alpesh Patel

Llyn Foulkes

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

By Jonathan Griffin

Hilma af Klint

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

By Jennifer Higgie

Jan Groover

Galerie Paul Frèches, Paris, France

By Robert Barry

Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys

M_HKA, Antwerp, Belgium

By Kasia Redzisz

Notes on Neo-Camp

Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

By Laura McLean-Ferris

Simon Denny

Kunstverein Munich,

By Kevin McGarry

Julia Haller

Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany

By Mark Prince

Barbara Hammer

KOW, Berlin, Germany

By Matthew Burbidge

John Henderson

Peep-Hole, Milan, Italy

By Barbara Casavecchia

Paola Revenioti

The Breeder, Athens, Greece

By Marina Fokidis

Simeón Saiz Ruiz

Galería Fúcares, Madrid, Spain

By George Stolz

The Themersons and the Avant-Garde

Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland

By Krzysztof Kosciuczuk

Jeff Keen

Kate MacGarry, London, UK

By Martin Herbert

Michael Krebber

Maureen Paley, London, UK

By Laura McLean-Ferris

Kutlug Ataman

Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK

By Nick Aikens

Jeremiah Day

Arcade, London, UK

By Chris Fite-Wassilak

Mark Fisher & Justin Barton

The Showroom, London, UK

By Charlie Fox

Rosa Barba

Cornerhouse & Turner Contemporary, Manchester and Margate

By Amy Sherlock

The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things

The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK

By Giulia Smith

ECONOMY

CCA & Stills, Glasgow and Edinburgh

By Chris Sharratt

Guan Xiao

Magician Space, Beijing, China

By Carol Yinghua Lu

Queering Making II

Abadi Art Space, Delhi, India

By Eleanor ivory Weber

Nityan Unnikrishnan

Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India

By Prajna Desai