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The work of John Hanson, Rob Nilsson and Fred Lonidier establishes a dialectic between a leftist melancholy and a more forward-looking politics

‘The images Miller created don’t exist solely in the past: her legacy moves through time, like a river’

Featuring Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, ‘Womanhouse’ marks the 30th anniversary of the museum dedicated to women artists

A recent exhibition in Paris rightly affirms the artist as a central figure in arguably the first gender-equal Western art movement

20 Museum directors from major institutions around the world nominate a favourite work by a woman artist in their collection

Susanne von Falkenhausen on this summer’s 10th Berlin Biennale, Manifesta 12 and the future of biennials

How the radical practices of female artists drove the Modernist movement in Brazil

From Antiquity to the present day, women have been crucial in shaping taste, building collections and supporting artists

The extraordinary life of artist Mary Edmonia Lewis, a sculptor of African American and indigenous heritage who achieved international acclaim 

A short story by novelist Wayétu Moore in response to Charles White

Recent paintings by Caragh Thuring, Phoebe Unwin and Clare Woods mine the tension between physical and imagined worlds

From the musical traditions of Palestine to the global circulation of seeds, the artist unpicks the power structures that support even the most lyrical aspects of life

A visual essay born out of a trip the Polish artist made three years ago to the South Caucasus

The Beijing-based artist’s films draw on the emotional strategies of pop culture to explore identity and belonging in a hyper-mediatized world

Watching Sharon Hayes and Evan Ifekoya pay homage to the late artist at Camden Arts Centre and remembering his ‘structured anarchy’

The frieze columnist's first novel is an homage to, and embodiment of, the late, great Kathy Acker

What is the future of our photos in an age when images – and the machine-readable data they contain – no longer belong to us? 

Meticulous, gently humorous paintings isolate a deeply personal encounter with the obdurate structures of society and culture

Thoughts on an unpredictable series of local disasters

The artist-investigator tunes his work to the undocumented, the surveilled, immigrants and prisoners; those fleeing the talons of the state