Opinion

The prolific Beat poet, who died aged 86 on 25 October, left behind a powerful and ever-urgent call to action in her Revolutionary Letters

As Ruth Asawa is honoured with a postage stamp, artist Stephanie Syjuco considers her legacy and her internment by the US government

Since the beginning of the 20^th century, aerial technologies have lent the sky – and the birds that fly through it – with a threatening presence

The artist creates a new, specially commissioned comic on the perils of looking good

The new Netflix documentary is a distraction from the drive to regulate tech companies, including Netflix itself

On what would have been Kelley’s 66th Birthday, Gabriella Pounds explores the impact of the antic French poem ‘Les Chants de Maldoror’ on the artist and his predecessors, from Hans Bellmer to John Balance 

The filmmaker’s latest documentary, Swimming Out till the Sea Turns Blue, is an object study of the generations affected by industrialization

Taken over a decade and published in 2001, Singh’s book documents the life of her friend Mona Ahmed 

Luca Guadagnino’s new HBO series treats identity like an Instagram filter

From the reconstructed City Palace to the Reichsflagge, the symbols and ideologies of colonialism are as alive as ever

The author's new novel is a smart, sharply observed critique of literary tropes and the art world

Why the Conservatives are wrong to dismiss the British public's intelligence and imagination

Jessica Loudis on the magazines attempting to upend contemporary media

Smith’s ‘No Gyal Can Test’– the artist’s first solo show – organizes an archive of photographs, clothing and dancehall footage for a ‘distant future’

In London, shows by Bruce Nauman, Klara Lidén and Helen Cammock reflect on the pleasures and politics of idleness

‘Frog Pond Splash’, published 20 November by Siglio Press, presents four decades of the artist’s mail-art exchanges with poet William S. Wilson

The winner of the New Academy Prize remembers how Fanon's legendary book has changed her reading and writing life

Trenton Doyle Hancock, Mark Thomas Gibson, Jacolby Satterwhite, Tschabalala Self and Gary Simmons respond to the controversial decision to delay Guston’s retrospective

How Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings, Ed Webb-Ingall and Ayo Akingbade approach the closure of public space

The late US Supreme Court Justice was deeply moved by the sense of balance and musicality in the works by Josef Albers that hung in her chambers