Features

How Bethany Collins, Steffani Jemison, Adam Pendleton and Kameelah Janan Rasheed are using the tradition of black radical poetry to examine questions of subjectivity and race

Artists Beatriz González and Amalia Pica discuss painting, curating, activism and identity 

Angelica Mesiti’s films explore the myriad ways humans communicate

On the prolific and varied career of artist, designer, collector and archivist Elaine Lustig Cohen 

Édouard Glissant’s play Monsieur Toussaint is translated into Creole at this year’s Ghetto Biennale, unpicking Haiti's national heroes

Johan Grimonprez’s recent films explore the mechanisms of the arms trade

Helen Marten responds to Ed Atkins’s new work, Old Food, currently showing at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

Recent instances of censorship show an emboldened far right attacking the arts, queer identity and more: artists, curators and writers respond

From the new issue of frieze: Changes in urban cultures and queer aesthetics across the Sinosphere 

A new wave of figurative painting in recent New York exhibitions prompts critical questions about which bodies we depict, for whom and to what end

Blast Theory, Forced Entertainment and Slavs and Tatars: collectives fusing theatre, art, performance and politics to create interactive experiences

Alice Rawsthorn on the Italian design duo’s response to ecological and political concerns

Charlie Fox traces the recurring appearance of the mask in art

From medieval Wunderkammern to portable museums, Duchamp’s suitcases, and dolls’ houses, the miniature is an enduring and radical art form

Claire-Louise Bennett's meditations on still life and ‘the aesthetic value of the events, tasks and items that constitute daily life’

The context and legacy of Jean-Hubert Martin’s contentious 1989 exhibition, ‘Magiciens de la terre’

A survey of international writers, curators and artists in response to recent controversies surrounding appropriation

The remarkable story of Hercules Florence and his pharmacy labels 

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As morbid devotional objects go on show at Frieze Masters, one writer asks: why do we look at violent religious art?