Features

The epic and the everyday; theatre, bats, puppets and paintings

Deserted frames, whispery voices; marquees, mirrors and steel earrings

From logs to light-fittings, leopards, cream and alligators, Milan-born artist Paola Pivi uses art as an experiential playground

Occult art has come a long way since the manipulation of photographic plates and painters responding to supposed dictates from the spirit world. Many contemporary artists are turning to the unseen to evoke a sense of historical space

Matthew Buckingham’s films, photographs and installations explore the present by examining representations of – and subjects from – the past

Since the early 1960s, Stephen Willats has investigated the idea of art as something that might motivate people to renegotiate their perceptions of reality

Referencing such wildly disparate subjects as Google, ‘self-eating’, headless dogs and imaginary births, Dana Schutz examines what it means to be a painter

Big business, sculpture and the machinations of cultural production

Careers, critics, money and music

Disparate models; abstraction and mysticism, curiosity and scepticism

Collier Schorr’s photographs and collages question what we look at – and why

For over a decade, Annika Eriksson has made videos, staged performances and organized events that explore social relationships

From Mexico to Egypt, Senegal to Colombia – examining approaches to feminist art-making

In her murals, installations, music, radio plays and projections, German artist Michaela Melián explores the politics of memory, alternative histories and the often unsung role of women in shaping the past – and future

Gun-fights, doppelgängers, feminist tales, songs and films

Pseudonyms, strikes and keys; appropriation and symbols

Display; the female form and protest culture

Over the past decade Peter Piller has compiled hundreds of groups of images – from unspectacular newspaper photographs to old postcards and abandoned archives

An interview with a dead novelist about truth, fiction and representation in the films and photographs of Irish artist Gerard Byrne

Privet hedges, capitalist rashes, toilets and feminist graffiti