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?

What am I looking forward to in 2009?

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

How designers are adopting the strategies of Conceptual art

Begonias, the lure of travel, endless writing and an unfinished book

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

Sound and form: grasshoppers, vocal canons and communicating with the dead

Political engagement in art from the USA and Silvia Kolbowski’s ambitious new work

The elegant aesthetic of Matthew Brannon’s pictures and sculptures belies a witty, acerbic take on the human condition