Features

Human playthings and disfigured dolls in the work of Jean-Marie Appriou, Veit Laurent Kurz, Kris Lemsalu and Athena Papadopoulos

Stuart Middleton’s sculptures, stories and films reflect on the violence of gentrification and London’s changing urban landscape

Influence and innovation in the sculptures of Leonor Antunes

On recent artistic appropriation controversies

On the intertwined histories of music, sampling and influence

Novelist Hari Kunzru on the current culture wars in the US

Ahead of its South London Gallery performance, how Tom Phillips’s Irma – a work that questions the genre of opera itself – is being staged

Diedrich Diederichsen and Renée Green discuss cultural ownership and transfer in Germany and the US. Moderated by Pablo Larios

Revision and revolt in the work of Nairy Baghramian

On documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel

Artist and writer David Bestué employs materials as diverse as dust, saliva and fragments of a monastery to explore the meanings contained in the world around him

Western art and Mexican culture collide in the work of Eduardo Sarabia

Muralism in Los Angeles

How Ellen Lesperance transmits messages about history, feminism and labour through the art of knitting

Art sees itself as facing a crisis of legitimation – can this account for claims to 'authenticity' being made in shows such as documenta 14?

Artist and singer Tori Wrånes articulates the weird interior of the self

Anicka Yi's work fuses biology with technology, finding new ways to talk about gender, race and economics. With an introduction to the work by Dan Fox and a short story by Joanna Ruocco

In the face of China’s urbanization and widespread environmental degradation, the enduring influence of the country’s classical landscape tradition on its art

Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca’s films probe economics, race and gender in Brazilian popular music

A digital portrait of the landscape that transformed our planet