Opinion

Mark Cousins’s ‘Women Make Film’ celebrates 130 years of cinema by 183 female directors 

The musician remembers coming out in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War and the recent death of Egyptian queer activist Sarah Hegazi

As physical spaces begin to re-open, virtual platforms need to add something to the art experience 

For David Grubbs, an onrush of music has led to a rethinking of musical ‘speed’ itself

UK art students are reimagining the end of year exhibition format during COVID-19

In the director’s sweeping new Vietnam War film, it is never clear ‘who is the colonizer and who is the colonized’ 

Recent events have shown how deeply our lives are enmeshed with those of others – with the potential for both support and harm

Decadence, dazzle and decoloniality in this debut novel about the search for a forgotten Black modernist amidst the Bright Young Things of 1920s Britain

A rarely seen documentary shows the UK's Black communities in the wake of two tragic incidences of police brutality towards unarmed Black mothers in 1985

On the visibility of desire during lockdown

The world demanded by Black Lives Matter is not the world in which Edward Colston belongs

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on Little Richard, Édouard Glissant and unapologetic Blackness

A bleak tale of a girl raised in isolation, ‘I Who Have Never Known Men’ takes on new meaning amidst the current wave of lockdown narratives

Performa’s online exhibition ‘Bodybuilding’ is an intriguing attempt to bring live and spatial work to the screen

Retro pleasures are a smokescreen that fails to conceal the painfully quick dismantling of institutions that have lasted centuries

Patriotic imagery and calls for ‘togetherness’ distract from grass-roots demands for systemic change

The weightlessness of the iconic film helps alleviate the oppressive pull of reality

Describe a global crisis in 600 words? Too hard. But isn’t everything else irrelevant right now?

Every day in ‘lockdown’, we are asked to consider the effects of social distancing – as if segregation weren’t already a reality  

After Hours is filled with a familiar, sometimes crushing, sense of yearning for something more