Features

The story of Los Angeles-based artist Kaari Upson’s long-term ‘Larry Project’

Early 20th-century literary characterization; imagination, action and agency

Amelia Groom considers the Japanese architecture group Metabolism, while Nick Currie talks to Rem Koolhaas about organic cities and flexible buildings

Tropical Modernism and the ‘potential of nostalgia’; photographs, prints and new layers of memory

Community organizing and AIDS activism; ‘Full Body Quotation’ and party hosting

Marie Darrieussecq responds to the filmic meditations of João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva

Documentary films and sci-fi encounters; assumption, truth and magic

Held across eight Italian galleries and museums, ‘Arte Povera 2011’ fails the original spirit of the art movement created by Germano Celant

What two photographs taken by a Spanish judge in Baghdad reveal about the impossibility of untangling a moment in the past

Art’s conflicted relationship with the Arab Spring

A year of unrest in the UK

Revisiting art’s social turn and the 1990s: the decade that has yet to end

Reasons and responses: the cuts to arts funding in the Netherlands

The end of film photography and the rise of digital photography have led to new genres, methods and histories.An overview of a dying and a thriving medium

Using both analogue and digital reproductions, Marieta Chirulescu explores abstract painting and physical space

What happens to old photojournalism archives? The case of the Black Star archive reveals surprising connections to Germany and histories which foresee the future

Haris Epaminonda began working with found photographs, films and objects – and ended up with a novel form of collage

For more than 40 years, Hans-Peter Feldmann has collected photographs to create his own personal archive

Exhaustion, Textiles, Ceramics and Mnemonics

Subject, Object and Abject