Features

Recent rereleases from new-age music's 1970s and '80s heyday speak to current social anxieties

How Colleen Asper's paintings challenge traditional representations of the body

How Eduardo Navarro's works retrain the senses

Samson Young's multidisciplinary work confronts the ways in which sound can both transcend borders and enforce them

The quietly violent works of Alexandra Bircken

The derelict Croydon airport, Batman as a sainted figure, and a potential new work: a road movie going nowhere

A report from this weekend's Women's March on Washington D.C.

A night within the walls of Pasaquan, the mystical compound of St. EOM

Tom Overton reflects on the life of a great storyteller with contributions on his art criticism, broadcasting and fiction

Five young artists exploring queerness, disability, the standardization of bodies and the politics of visibility

Ian White, Anne Imhof and Jason Dodge, our Berlin-based contributing editor’s picks of the year

Zaha Hadid, SFMOMA, Tate Switch House and London’s Design Museum: the highs and lows of the year in architecture

A look back at the year that gave us Mark Greif’s Against Everything and David Bowie's final act

From Indonesia to Hong Kong to Taiwan, the year’s memorable shows and projects in South East Asia

A history of underground Black publishing, from W.E.B. Du Bois to #BlackLivesMatter

From Berlin to Beirut; from attacks on arts spaces to the birth of a daughter: the year in review

The rise of Shanghai and the sad passing of Chen Shaoxiong

The best of this year's LA shows, featuring Nathaniel Mellors and a survey at the newly opened Hauser Wirth & Schimmel

The winner of the 2016 Turner Prize responds to Laura Owens's painterly nets and fences

From Michael Gove to Mary Hurrell to Orange is The New Black, the year in review