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Natasha Stagg on the work of Chris Dorland

Writers Gregg Bordowitz, Pamela Sneed, Sur Rodney (Sur) and Lynne Tillman discuss how the AIDS crisis changed art writing, and what lessons writers might carry over to the Covid-19 pandemic

The strengths of regional approaches in a country deeply divided by the dual crises of Covid-19 and Brexit

Ahead of his 13th feature film, Saint Narcisse, the cult film director speaks with Michael Bullock about the importance of self-love and self-exposure 

The painter, writer, educator and self-described ‘art appreciator’ invites us to follow and think alongside her

Deborah Levy can’t stop thinking about a work seen at Kettle’s Yard more than 30 years ago

A.S. Hamrah on the portrayal of ‘red America’ in Hillbilly Elegy, Rebuilding Paradise and Nomadland

Liz Craft, Emma Gray, Pentti Monkonnen and Thomas Solomon discuss the exhibition programmes they launched in their homes

Artists and writers reflect on domestic exhibition spaces in Los Angeles, from 1940 to the present

Art and the climate share a crucial trait – rapid change. Carson Chan explores how a theory of ‘liquid modernity’ has made new waves in art and asks: What if art institutions acted like water?

Her work – currently on view in solo exhibitions at Gropius Bau, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art – pulls tragedy from landscape

John Kelsey on how the French iconoclast rewrites film history, one image at a time

As an exhibition of his work heads to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the photographer speaks to poet Simone White about the changing landscape of Harlem and US institutions

Tourmaline’s films speak a simple truth: Black, queer and trans people were always here and always will be

Can the story of performer and activist Paul Robeson help us reconcile universalism with Black progress? 

A look at Germany’s exhibition landscape shows the importance of identifying blind spots

Germany's Green Party wants to get rid of the word ‘race’ in the German constitution. Natasha A. Kelly writes about what actually needs to change in Germany

During the turbulent summer of 2020, the filmmakers decided on decentring the human in their practice 

Derica Shields on how the 1661 Barbados Slave act shaped policing in contemporary Britain

Stephen Squibb on the tactics of untruth, from Martha Rosler to Hito Steyerl