Opinion

In the age of Instagram, who owns our images?

The musician’s retrospective album proves he has long been ahead of his time – and out of this world

Dawn Mellor’s new mural in the north London suburb of Brent celebrates the star in all of his queer glory  

Does the crowdfunding platform live up to its promise to ‘change the way art is valued?’

Emerging alternative spaces led by artists of colour leave a stagnant gallery system behind 

Glasgow-based performer Liv Fontaine’s top tips

What was lost – and what was gained – when the Temple of Dendur came to the Met? 

The first blockbuster to return to theatres demonstrates Hollywood’s eagerness to ‘exploit bodily presence for profit’ during the pandemic

A new publishing project misunderstands the anti-patriarchal motivations behind historical pen names

Primer (2004) asks what happens when history is always hanging in the balance

How Spotify and YouTube gave rise to an indie pop ‘internet muzak’

The effort to save 313 jobs at Tate Enterprises has attracted support from Turner Prize winners and former opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn 

Revisiting the author’s prescient 'manifesto for a fair fight' - first published as an essay in 2014 - now out as a full-length book

The artist and curator discuss why nobody notices James II in Trafalgar Square and how abolition can be represented in a public space

The writer and musician’s latest album, Mandinga Times, is a bracing ode to apocalyptic collapse

The album is a timely affirmation for the global African diaspora, but it can’t be accepted as a universal representation of global Blackness

New rules for post-pandemic socialising 

Two philosophers, Achille Mbembe and Susan Neiman, on the possibility of historical comparison

Pop Smoke’s posthumous release is an authoritarian play on the senses

Juliet Jacques examines the political motives behind the removal of works in Oslo, London and the former Yugoslavia