Opinion

The DJ and writer experiments with electronic music and rethinks the meaning of a ‘sonic archive’ upon discovering tapes at the National Institute of Design

Florence Platarets’s new documentary on the late auteur inadvertently asks whether Cannes Film Festival has lost its taste for radical politics

This year’s edition reflects the country’s ambitious climate targets but risks obscuring what it aims to highlight

The poet and critic Simone White considers the artist’s formative work Mirror Mirror (1987–88)

The new play, on at Playwrights Horizons, New York, relies too heavily on pop-psychological tropes of trauma and its acknowledgement

In anticipation of the artist’s forthcoming book to be published in 2024 with Dia Art Foundation, frieze presents an extract of Nengudi’s exuberant prose

Other highlights include Martine Syms’s art-school satire and a nostalgic glance back at the indomitable Tina Turner

On the centenary of the photographer’s birth, an outtake of his iconic portrait of William Casby, a self-conscious image captured alongside five generations of his family

Every character in Lee Sung Jin’s TV series orbits around an unhappy nexus of high art, capital and social clout

The poet and artist creates works that occupy a transitional state between life and death

Considering the art and writing of the New York based artist, whose work delved into the distances of time and memory

In her ninth studio album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, the artist reaches new heights of candour

Jarett Kobek reflects on his relationship with the late cult filmmaker and Hollywood Babylon author

MoMA curator Stuart Comer examines the role of everyday items as a way to approach traumatic histories

In the novel, the unnamed narrator reckons with the politics of race, desire and marginalization in galleries and institutions 

Other highlights include a collection of poetry and ephemera by US writer John Wieners and a beautiful monograph of the Scottish painter Carole Gibbons

In New York, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela’s permanent sound and light installation continue to amaze its visitors

From Jonathan Glazer's triumphant Cannes debut to the first Sudanese production to be honoured by the festival, here are six films to keep an eye out for this year

Almost three years on, the city’s cultural sector is slowly recovering from a devastating explosion that killed 218 people

From Elizabeth Vigeé Le Brun to Suzanne Césaire: unveiling the lost narratives of remarkable artists who defied conventions