Features

Five groundbreaking cases of photography in litigation

Recently, several US-based artists have taken a approach to photography, emphasizing process, digital manipulation and the physical support

The intertwining of art and commercial photography is nowhere more evident than in the genre of still life

Symmetry, distance and intimacy; poetry, concrete and grass

Luxury consumption and low-cost production; labour, exchange, weight and money

The land and the sea; the mapping of clandestine journeys; the intertwining of personal stories and politics

A digital approach to sculpture and installation; physical comedy and the very recent past

The legacy of the late Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri

Andrea Mason digs window boxes

Politics and anthropometry: measuring history through yourself

The collaborations and performances of Dora García, who is currently representing Spain in the Venice Biennale, engage with radicalism, inadequacy and the excluded

To coincide with its major relocation to a new site in King’s Cross, artist and teacher Malcolm Le Grice traces the history of Central Saint Martins, from the mid-19th-century to today. This is the first in an occasional series of essays on art schools around the world

Public performance and invisibility; social alienation and the artist’s role

Ryan Trecartin’s immersive video environments are amplified reflections of the joy, madness and ambiguity of our culture

The changing shape of demonstrations

The photography and videos of Olga Chernysheva capture concentrated moments in the midst of daily Russian life

Developing narratives from fragmented histories, the work of Michael Stevenson weighs up fate, irony and chance events

An update of Raymond Williams's 1975 dictionary of culture for today's art world

The last two decades have seen a proliferation of curatorial studies programmes. How has this affected methodology and display, and what is the future of these courses?

Artists are finding different solutions to the persistent problem of the pedestal