Issue 239

Twenty years after the film’s release, does it still turn you on?

How do we read The Sexual Life of Catherine M in the age of #MeToo and autofiction?

The artist speaks about how poetry and song can bridge social movements, connecting people in the face of adversity

Fifty years after the debut of Wilson’s Life and Times of Joseph Stalin, a friend and collaborator remembers her time with the director

How the artist's dedication to perfection and relentless work reflects the religious undertones of the American work ethic

A personal essay on the importance of friendship and the ascendancy of Asian American stories in the mainstream

The artist’s sculptural installations and films sit at the heart of a debate about Eurocentrism in the arts

Karim Aïnouz’s debut feature film presaged contemporary discussions on gender performativity, racial violence and identity politics

On the occasion of the artist’s retrospective at Raven Row, London, Matthew McLean revisits Untitled (Diana)

Tracing the movement’s emergence and its current role in shaping digital culture

Five curators, artists and writers discuss the impact of AI models like ChatGPT on artistic production

At the National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, the artists challenge dominant interpretations of wetlands as a hostile and undeveloped space

At WIELS in Brussels, the artists present a multimedia dystopia of disenchanted desires and endless searching

At Layr, Vienna, a group exhibition reminds viewers of the culture-crossing and nonconformist possibilities of artworks

At W-galería, the artist collaborates with Guaraní weavers in a decolonial project of self-representation 

​At Sprüth Magers, the artist visually renders our hackneyed vocabularies around anxiety and care

At Sargent’s Daughters, New York, empathetic oil paintings suggest healing through revisitation

Ireland’s biennial of contemporary art delicately weaves weighty issues into Limerick’s surroundings

At Rinde am Rhein, Düsseldorf, the artist’s new series riff on conceptualism but reflect the alienation of our times

While ‘Choreographies of the Impossible’ stumbles curatorially, this edition nevertheless feels vital and exciting