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With a recent show at Stephen Friedman Gallery, the Grenadian-born British artist talks to Osei Bonsu about painting, London's 1980s club scene and moving to Cornwall

Artists Barby Asante, Libita Clayton and Ashley Holmes are reimagining what it means to go back home

Her retrospective at the Met is a five-decade meditation on the vastness of the cosmos and the insignificance of human life

Ellis’s paintings are spring-loaded with overlapping references to film and television, current events, art and cartoons.

On the centenary of its founding in Weimar, ‘bauhaus imaginista’, which takes place in eleven countries, revisits the Bauhaus with an eye to global experiments in radical artistic pedagogy

A new series of sculptures is inspired by the Book of Genesis

As the world tips towards more reactionary and fascistic regimes, what does it mean to call for artistic freedoms that implicitly reproduce oppression?

The Hong Kong-born artist showcases the darkly comic potential of cartoon visuals

These specially commissioned photographs capture an ever-changing city through portraits of friends 

Tanning gives full expression to her childhood imagination and its innately eclectic catalogue of fears, fantasies and domestic psychodramas

Materialism, metaphysics and mysticism collide in the Shanghai-based artist’s maximalist installations

Three decades after German reunification, the artist articulates the inhumanity of right-wing terror, and how ideology lies within domestic interiors

A new exhibition in London shows the late painter as a master of colour – even after losing his eyesight

With dead ends and doors to nowhere, the recent works of the Scottish artist articulate contemporary forms of nihilism

‘These works render the real, estranged personalities of our present perturbing, alluring; exquisite’

‘The people from whom I learn most are enthusiasts, who take my soul to places I never knew existed.’

Once eclipsed by the men in her life, the architect’s supreme originality and energy are slowly being recognized

A Beirut-based organization supporting Syrian filmmakers captures the response of contemporary art to the wars of our time

The inspirational founder of Germany’s Green Party and her untimely death 

‘In this era of social violence and the return of the irrational, has the interhuman sphere become, paradoxically, obsolete?’