Profiles

In a survey at Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, photographs by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick capture life within the US prison industrial complex 

Workshopping a new book project at Porto/Post/Doc, the theorist and filmmaker who diagnosed how Hollywood reinforced patriarchal codes

‘Cinematic’ is often overused, but Roeg’s films showed how minds and memories wander back and forth in time, colouring our experience of the world

Honey is an antidote to the norms of pop music today; a salve for the increasingly quick-hitting hooks of the streaming era

Designed by Beijing-based practice, OPEN Architecture, UCCA Dune burrows beneath the sand dunes in the coastal resort of Beidaihe

Exotic flora and tentative ‘Afronauts’ speak to a sense of alienation, but throughout the artist’s work runs a current of optimism 

Over the past year Queerdirect has taken over several London institutions, reimagining the gallery as a visible space for queer artists

With a show at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, disguise, diasporic identity and dolphins collide in the New York-based artist’s work

For more than 50 years, the artist has used conceptual art to examine the inherently political nature of information

For 112 days Sara Morawetz retraced the 2,000 kilometre journey of two 18th century astronomers, tasked with defining the length of a metre

Showing at Istanbul’s Protocinema, the artist’s new film uses the ancient site of Çatalhöyük to investigate a community and its collapse

Featuring a proposal for a circular motorway around a mountain peak, the ‘weird and absurd’ work of the Russia-based artist

On the eve of her Guggenheim retrospective, a new book of esoteric drawings reveals the spiritualism behind Europe’s first abstract artist

Poet CAConrad looks at the ways in which the artist addresses the corrosive role of empire in our daily lives

An eclectic group of artists, from different backgrounds and styles, united in rejecting nostalgic, orientalist nationalism

An homage to the architect who, with his partner Denise Scott Brown, developed the source code for postmodernism

Remembering the Romanian artist, who has died aged 92, for whom the studio was a continuous state of mind

In the tanks of a Victorian bathhouse, the Turner Prize-winning Assemble have created a contemporary art gallery at Goldsmiths, London

Cruel Fiction expresses hope for concrete social movements that imagine a different world than our own

McKenzie Wark pays tribute to the French cultural theorist, who called our era one of ‘dromocracy’: the reign of speed