Features

How artists and curators have responded to upheaval in the Arab world, from 1967 to the present day

Keith Coventry’s fusion of cultural commentary and Modernist art

Cultural anthropology via impersonation, pageantry and apprenticeship

Dan Fox invited eight artists and artist groups to reflect on their relationships to curators and curatorial discourse

A survey including statements and sketches from 30 contributors

From his early Dada and Surrealist photomontages to his later New York fashion shoots, Erwin Blumenfeld insistently parodied objects of desire

Cosmic comedy, human sludge and the tragic-ridiculous: the paintings of Norbert Schwontkowski

Natascha Sadr Haghighian’s works record and refract the mechanisms of power

Patterns, relations and planes of reference

Painting, poetry and measuring movement

Multicoloured Modernism and sci-fi suburbia

Tracing the ideas that travelled from Germany to the deserts of Southern California, and, eventually, to define the spirit of 1960s counterculture. The remarkable story of the LA Nature Boys

Withholding, covering up and glimpsing the secret world of objects

Sylvia Sleigh’s extraordinary ‘history pictures’

What makes a successful artist-run institution?

The Los Angeles-based artist discusses his photographic process in which tableau and accident meet

Online subcultures, elusive narratives and structural film

Jonathan Griffin on Anthony Pearson

The historic layers of Beirut’s neighbourhoods; the fine line between collaboration and individual practice

Alternative studies of continental branding, subjectivity and our data-driven societies