Features

Reformulating the human body in the age of mass digitization

In an age of perpetual distraction, how might institutions slow down and refocus the way we look at art?

Nicholas Mangan’s exploration of raw materials and social change

Sculpture, field recordings and the ghosts of dead rappers

Herman de Vries’s Dutch pavilion in Venice

Michael Beutler’s large-scale sculptural installations and his analogue alternative to automated production

Noemi Smolik visits the home of Inge Mahn and looks back on five decades of the artist’s socially-minded sculpture – in both town and country

Self-presentation in recent art and writing

Body and soul in the performances of Alexandra Bachzetsis

Still Waters

Intelligence squared

Public art in Germany has a long and fraught history. What is its place today?

On the ruptures and restlessness of much contemporary art, and how this is reflected in the 56th Venice Biennale

Travis Jeppesen considers disruption and ambivalence in the work of Simon Denny, in the run-up to the artist’s major project for the Venice Biennale

Undivided selves

How a sense of the local shapes art in the US

Connections across time and place in the work of Danh Vo

Imagining a world without humans

From stick insects to rhombuses: working between the organic and the geometric

Included in the German pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, Hito Steyerl’s pointed and playful disruptions in digital environments