Columnists

Roisin Tapponi looks at how contemporary Arabic filmmakers use thirst to inspire their practices

Neil Bartlett on the lessons Bronson’s art practice teaches in the face of catastrophe

The ‘Cleo’ singer shares how she uses music to lift herself out of heartbreak

Hainley speaks to Stein about his new book, Rip Tales, a homage to DeFeo and San Francisco

Dan Fox reviews the writer’s memoir of a twilight capital of art, fashion and music

Jamila Prowse surveys how artists, writers and critics become their own unofficial biographers when grappling with illness and misdiagnosis

Jamila Prowse reflects on how disability-inclusive resources can create a better art world

In the age of ‘fake news’ Lukas Brasiskis analyses the moving-image artists recalibrating the optics on truth

Lewis Bush on the troubling histories of photographic archives as organisations face resignations and revelations about the contents of their collections

Jamila Prowse explores the theories behind the collective’s approach to disability justice and commitment to ‘doing nothing or, at the very least, as little as required of us’

With preventable fires and flooding destroying many of Brazil's cultural institutions, what's at stake for the country's most significant film and television archive?

How the Chinese YouTube sensation has seduced urban dwellers worldwide

Can fungus help us better understand what it means to be human?

What a garden’s lowliest plants can teach us about resistance to capitalism and patriarchy

The artist’s homecoming exhibition at the Contemporary Austin is both deeply moving and tragically timely  

The new subscription platform for writers is atomizing an already fragile cultural ecosystem 

The debut novel, sugar-dusted with zeitgeist signifiers, satirizes the 21st-century urban bourgeoisie – but who is the joke actually on?

A Sundance highlight, the director’s debut is a nuanced exploration of lives either side of the ‘colour line’