Features

Amar Kanwar’s multilayered films and installations prompt ‘revelations, of different kinds, for different individuals’

How has the Internet affected new definitions of a contemporary culture industry? The imaginary architecture in a 15th-century book may provide the answer

Soap operas, identity politics and sentimental songs; humour, hysteria and sincerity

Posters, leaves and photographs, drawing, detachment and intimacy

Embarrassment and abnormality; rearranged faces and rotating horizons

Grappling with the work of an artist who relishes multiple viewpoints, myriad materials and a slippery approach to meaning

What does it mean to be a professional artist?

For the past 40 years, the elusive artist David Hammons has explored race, creativity and politics – without gallery representation

Sedimentation and submersion; the effects of images on the past, the present and the future

Dreams, songbirds and slimming; the imaginative and temporal possibilities of reduction

Blood, thread and cow dung; gender politics, myth and mysticism

Is the art world too professionalized – or not enough?

Censorship, sexuality, creativity and the economic meltdown. Featuring a specially commissioned collage by Cerith Wyn Evans

What am I looking forward to in 2009?

How designers are adopting the strategies of Conceptual art

Artist Daria Martin on the evolution of an artwork

Melik Ohanian’s aim to ‘question the operative mode of the exhibition’ is apparent in his complex, multimedia project

From participatory projects to socially mindful curating,Harrell Fletcher explores the role art plays in human relations

Videos, hoods, a ‘period eye’; surrealism and surveillance

Institutional critique and collective authorship; money, fruit and Robbie Williams