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Vladimir Solovyov is now – thanks to Lenin’s censorship – the most important philosopher you’ve never heard of

Do philosophers understand contemporary art?

Four leading teachers from universities and art schools around the world reflect on the importance of theory for students today

Artists Walead Beshty, Liz Deschenes and Eileen Quinlan discuss the return of the topic of abstraction to photography

Human cameras, fortune tellers, unreliable memories – in Lindsay Seers’ work, the truth is not what it seems

Parody, intrigue and innuendo; time travel, referentiality and social comedy

Bohemianism, grass-roots activism, urban regeneration and the voices of the dead

Enigmas, paradoxes and riddles: photographs of sculptures and sculptures of photographs

Thomas Bayrle’s long and varied career as an artist reveals a sensibility shaped in equal parts by humour, absurdity and social criticism

Et tu Brute, then fall, Caesar! 

Unused props and clearance goods; photographs with absent bodies

Charline von Heyl’s paintings reveal a unique language developed in the face of information streams and image overload

Archives, accordions and protest songs

The animism and imagination of Phillip Allen’s painterly abstractions

For three decades, the influential British artist Eric Bainbridge has been fascinated by surfaces and disguises, the exotic and the mundane

Stephen Prina’s installations, performances and objects are characterized by their rich layers of reference and discursive discordance

Confession, amateur porn, vulnerablility and a complicated mother-son relationship

How architects are dealing with the problems of housing the 600 million rural immigrants moving to Chinese cities

Many controversial buildings currently await an uncertain fate, raising the issue of aesthetic success versus social function

Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander creates works influenced by ideas of home, travel, translation and transience