Opinion

In the artist’s 2024 film Oceania, queer intimacies and decolonial possibilities are depicted in luminous and contrapuntal fashion

As the Labour government plans to reduce essential support, artists and writers speak out about how the changes will affect them

Starring Ayo Edebiri, A24’s glossy horror-comedy attempts high satire and settles for airplane entertainment

How social media promotes a cycle of admiration and resentment in an influencer-driven world – and why the transgender community is at the centre of its violence

A background in engineering and a fascination with the origins of energy powered a formidable career in art

As fashion’s ‘peroxide grande dame’ steps down, we reflect on her legacy and influence on a younger generation of designers

Lydia Blakeley, Bex Massey and Bobbi Essers lead a new wave of painters combining disparate scenes to process our fragmented visual world

Featuring performers who vape, text and perch on luxury cars, the immersive work overtaking Park Avenue Armory, New York, demands we surrender to its shifting rhythms

London is awash with exhibitions celebrating the past – what can figures like Leigh Bowery and Peter Hujar teach young artists today? 

Alain Guiraudie’s ‘Misericordia’ and Bruno Dumont’s ‘The Empire’ ask us to rethink good and evil

Other highlights include artist Sin Wai Kin’s unnerving sitcom and a forthcoming book of essays by Hito Steyerl

On the occasion of her exhibition at Goldsmiths CCA, London, a look at the artist’s 1985–87 painting ‘Langes Bild’, depicting the chaos and confusion leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall 

In Berlin, Laure Prouvost joins the small group of artists and institutions engaging with this emerging field 

The adventures of Gimley Bunning, roving reporter in the art world

Artist, photographer and printer Gary Schneider reflects on his relationship with the legendary American photographer

Even though eight million births to date are the result of assisted reproduction, the procedure is little represented in art

As his exhibition opens in Los Angeles, the artist and former designer reflects on ideas of ephemerality and materiality

From James Benning’s depiction of a vanishing way of life to an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s 2016 novel ‘Hot Milk’

The author’s captivating exploration of colour weaves together diverse subjects, from the Atlantic Ocean to Miles Davis’s music 

Michael Arden directs a searingly beautiful meditation on companionship, impermanence and the limits of AI