Profiles

The life and work of Swiss filmmaker Peter Liechti, who died in April

How Zurich-based designer Julian Zigerli is redefining men’s fashion

Omer Fast’s film adaptation of Tom McCarthy’s book, Remainder

Three new publications by artists catalogue the minutiae of contemporary existence

Image and imagination in the films of Alain Resnais

In pursuit of Erik Satie

Heinz Mack on his sculptural work The Sky Over Nine Columns that will be installed in Venice this summer

Berlin-based dancer and choreographer Adam Linder and his reinterpretation of Jean Cocteau’s seminal ballet Parade

The most embarrassing moment in Peter Carey’s memoir Wrong About Japan (2005) has to be when he naively queries a master sword maker about the ethics of conferring sublime artistry in the crafting of an instrument of death. Carey mangles it in great fashion, though I’m certain many readers would feel he struck a bold intervention into Japan’s supposed disregard of post-war ethics. I had forgotten about Wrong About Japan until the release of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises (2013).

Combustion and digestion in Matthew Barney’s latest work

Radical filmmaking at the Sensory Ethnography Lab

For this regular series, artist Yngve Holen explains the processes behind his experiments with 3D scanning and printing

Nailing jelly to a wall: Diedrich Diederichsen’s attempt to define Pop music

Sex work in the service age: Tatjana Turanskyj’s new film Top Girl

In Rimini Protokoll’s productions, real life appears theatrical, and theatre seems more like real life

Has 12 Years a Slave finally exorcised Hollywood’s racist legacy? A consideration of representations of slavery on screen from The Birth of a Nation to Django Unchained and Belle

Magali Reus is part of a group of young, London-based artists exploring sleek surfaces and abject bodies

Dropped from the psychic landscape of British pop and undetected by the radar of retromania, where did these diverse communities go?

Muriel Cooper: a graphic design pioneer who anticipated the digital revolution

From latex printing to art restoration: Markus Hoffmann of renowned Dusseldorf photo lab Grieger takes us through the company’s processes