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In the face of 'hyena politics', five artists from the Zimbabwean capital who explore the human form as a symbol of resistance 

To experience the music of the composer, who passed away last week at the age of 69, was to hear something tense, physical, almost pugilistic

On the occasion of her MoMA retrospective, six missives to the artist from her peers

The artist queers the canonical histories of art and theatre, pointing to how things might actively and fantastically engage in being otherwise

How the late artist's transparent sculpture rethinks the relationship between figure and ground

An exhibition of the work of the late Madeline Gins reveals an artist, architect and poet who pushed language into intensely imaginative and speculative realms

Before ‘fake news’ and the turn against Facebook, painter David Salle remembers a book that predicted how the media sphere would shatter

Three leading artists explore the complex notion of a multi-ethnic national identity in post-globalization China

Under a metahistorical guise, the filmmaking duo enact hidden tyrannies of the contemporary age

Ahead of the opening of her Tate Britain Duveen Galleries commission The Squash, the Turner Prize nominee answers our Questionnaire

Madeleine Thien takes a look at a celebrated painter who merged Western composition with Chinese brush-and-ink style

Surreal currents, charged objects and deformed bodies in the work of four emerging British painters

The artist's layered, tender paintings consider the history of being seen and touched by black women

In her current solo show at Kunsthalle Zurich, the artist's sculptures propose new manners of dwelling and co-existence

A series of ‘magical transformations’: Tacita Dean’s new work launches across three institutions in London

Naeem Mohaiemen’s films reflect on recent histories of the global radical Left

What accounts for the enduring appeal of Germany’s cult experimental author Hubert Fichte? 

Architecture, idealism and anachronism in the work of Cui Jie

How do representations of sleep reflect contemporary culture?

Why can’t New York get over its ‘bad old days’?