Features

Body language

What’s behind the proliferation of animals in recent artworks?

The multiple registers and references in the work of Haegue Yang

An afternoon with Walter Pfeiffer

From the functional to the slyly fashionable: the two sides to Stefan Kern

Pure Imagination

Skins

Hot metals and cool minimalism: the transformative processes of Raphael Hefti

Relating bodily sensations to virtual spaces in the photographs of Lucas Blalock

Jennifer Higgie on the bewildered mystics, mournful minstrels and mysterious rituals of Ryan Mosley’s paintings

Working for the man, or machine

Gideon Lewis-Kraus traces the transcontinental journeys of Brazilian artist Paolo Nazareth

Mining the traditions of the political cartoon

Ida Ekblad talks to Zoe Pilger about painting, drifting, emptiness and energy

Containers, collaboration and perception

The memory and lifespan of objects

Simon Ling and plein-air painting in east London

In recent years, abstract painting has experienced both a new popularity and a critical backlash. Can it be written off as ‘zombie formalism’ or are innovative approaches to abstraction really being developed?

Social division and artistic engagement in the work of Mohamed Bourouissa

Being betrayed by the body