Opinion

Eight years after the Tazreen Fashions Factory fire in Dhaka, Alam writes about photographing the anti-government protests of the survivors 

With the industry having been continuously overlooked by the UK government’s COVID-19 response, frieze charts a disastrous year for nightlife

In ‘Letters from the Continent’, a new documentary by Studios Kabako, 21 performers in 17 countries offer powerful testimonies of how the pandemic has upended their lives

In homage to Italo Calvino’s ‘Six Memos for the Next Millennium’, artists from Kara Walker to Collier Schorr, explore his six artistic virtues 

Alexandra Kleeman dwells on the necessity of coherence within a pandemic 

Black Brazilian contemporary artists confront the racial violence of the state 

In a time of heightened vulnerability, new media lends itself to the Arab diaspora, reconstructing ideals of exit, nationalism and things lost

Lisson Gallery founder Nicholas Logsdail reflects on his life-long friendship with the artist known best for his geometric minimal aesthetic

From Stephanie Lepp to Francesca Panetta and Halsey Burgund, artists are using AI to reveal the fragility of our trust in basic information

A slew of new books discuss the social and political history of scent, from holy smokes to slave ships

The film proposes Ancient Egypt as something far more alive than its ruins might suggest

Remi Weekes transposes the classic haunted house genre to a mouldering council flat inhabited by South Sudanese refugees

Charges of ‘attempted theft of a cultural asset’ against Congolese activist Mwazulu Diyabanza reveal the abyss of Europe’s self-referential legality

In the latest episode of frieze’s Autumn Sessions, the two friends play and discuss records that create or bridge distance

How Genshin Impact’s use of gambling and intimacy embody artist Lawrence Lek’s concept of ‘sinofuturism’

The five-film series is an epic, tender portrait of London’s West Indian community

With tens of thousands of pro-democracy, anti-monarchy protestors on the streets, should the second Bangkok Art Biennale have opened?

Cultural workers in Germany bristle at new lockdown measures; plus, Poland’s response to a new abortion law

The author’s latest novel, ‘The Silence’, is full of questions with obvious answers

From Billie Holiday to Kendrick Lamar, Black music has often created space for rest and repose