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Simon Elson's new biography of the overlooked art connoisseur Max J. Friedländer

What is an artist's play and how does it differ from performance art?

David Bowie as art school

Mortality, madness and misgivings in the work of Bedwyr Williams

In our regular series focusing on a single work by an artist, Phoebe Blatton considers Donna Huddleston's monumental new drawing

The online anthropology of Jon Rafman

On repetition and reiteration in a new film by Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda

Blood oaths and bodies under threat

A fresh look at the music and art of the black radical tradition

The raw enigma of matter and the potential meaning of form

An homage to Chantal Akerman (1950 – 2015)

Labyrinthine associations and elastic meaning in the work of Heather Phillipson

How science has caught up with the art of forgery

100 years ago, a group of artists gathered in Zürich and founded dada. A new book examines the under-valued role of women to this anarchic, wildly influential movement

In recent years, a number of historical exhibitions have been revisited and restaged. What's behind this impulse?

Sam Thorne invites ten curators to reveal how they envision the museum 25 years from now

On Hal Foster's Bad New Days: Art Critcism Emergency

The currency and collaboration of Kerstin Brätsch

Notes on Awkwardness

Form and functionlessness