Opinion

Rosanna McLaughlin explores how the late feminist artist redressed politics and power in her semi-autobiographical paintings

The director’s latest TV series, Pistol, hovers uncomfortably between the pretense of being an art form and desperately trying to hold our attention

The second part of the Met’s American fashion show attempts to display historical fashion tied to a precarious national identity

The biennial, returning to the Senegalese capital for its 14th edition, offers visitors multiple perspectives of contemporary art practice in West Africa and further afield

The director’s return to the body horror genre exposes crimes of the heart

As the new National Museum moves to the waterfront, Timotheus Vermeulen reflects on a decade of change in the Norwegian capital

Richard Hawkins on the crucial correspondence between the artist and the psychoanalyst

As several galleries celebrate birthdays, Hettie Judah speaks to Barbican Stories and directors of BALTIC, ICA, Midlands Art Centre and Yorkshire Sculpture Park about founding principles and future plans

Paige K. Bradley profiles the NYC radio station that subverts the role of the celebrity and has a place for everyone on its airwaves

Featuring Emma Stone, Damien Bonnard and a well-trained trip of goats, the Greek director’s silent short frees him from the pressures of the box office

Mariama Attah, Anna Frances Douglas and Jeremy Millar revisit John Berger’s famed television series and book

Patrick Kurth speaks to Siddhartha Lokanandi about his Berlin bookstore and creating a space for seduction and indecipherability

Rory O’Connor watches the filmmaker’s distinctive oeuvre which brings low-budget austerity to the film festival circuit

Emma McCormick-Goodhart speaks to Camille Norment about her sound installation at Dia Chelsea and how we can better learn to read the room

Released this month, Jhumpa Lahiri's new book explores her relationship with the Italian language as a writer and translator

From the Cecilia Vicuña’s paintings celebrating Indigenous forms at the Giardini to Marlene Dumas’s groundbreaking exhibition at Palazzo Grassi, these are the highlights from the 59th Venice Biennale

Jack Halberstam on how abstraction can offer a means of representing, complicating, dispersing and concealing trans embodiment

Imani Mason Jordan speaks to the artist about how the pandemic has affected her work and what her plans are for Venice

Chloe Aridjis considers surrealism’s resurgence and how its magical qualities provide a framework for positive transformation

Hettie Judah on five spirit mediums, political agitators, self-taught outsiders or surrealists that ‘bite back’ in Cecilia Alemani’s Venice exhibition