Profiles

On the 40th anniversary of ‘Unknown Pleasures’, the artist discusses the inspiration behind his iconic designs

The late art historian and activist inspired generations of young artists and writers to better teach themselves 

By transforming Paris’s Lafayette Anticipations into a weaving machine, the Dutch designer suggests alternative architectural uses of textiles

In Soskolne’s first show in nearly two decades, at New York’s Mishkin Gallery, the artist-activist takes on male networks and The Real Housewives of New York City

The artist, curator, educator and writer, who died on 30 June, was committed to supporting South Africa’s younger artists

Ian Bourland profiles one of the leading gallerists of the East Village scene of the 1980s

Gilda Williams pays tribute to the American painter, ‘an artist exalting in unruly triumph’

Remembering a poet who helped define a generation of American writers through his love of gossip, sex and art 

Tony Buzan’s early hypertext system for paper  

Contemplating deep space and ‘cosmic archaeology’, the artist reflects on her fascination with the universe beyond planet Earth

From the High Line Plinth to the Whitney Biennial and the Guggenheim, the artist’s sculptures celebrate the architecture of the Black female body

The New York-based choreographer’s intensely physical performances are a protest against forgetting the stories that go untold

Ian F. Martin traces the life and career of the pioneering Japanese musician, on the 50th anniversary of his first record

In a monographic exhibition at LACMA in Los Angeles, US, Eleanor Antin rediscovers the ‘other selves’ within her

The poet Kevin Killian remembers the artist’s ‘knowing, malicious but ultimately magical gaze’

Two years after his untimely death, the Chinese photographer continues to shape a generation of young image-makers

Renato Leotta employs moonlight, waves, dry-stone walls and ‘southern thought’ in order to ‘slow down time’

The artist’s new Art on the Underground commission and the politics of paying attention

The artist’s new show at Triangle, Marseille, explores mobility and its limitations

Varda (1928-2019) provided a blueprint for an experimental, politically-radical, idiosyncratically personal and wide-eyed humanist cinema