Profiles

To celebrate the publication of Neil Tennant’s collected lyrics, Michael Bracewell reflects on one of the great synth-pop groups 

Currently the subject of a retrospective at El Museo del Barrio in New York, the Buenos Aires-born artist plays with size – and expectation – to probe the ‘other situations’ of modern life

After 34 years as Head of Hayward Gallery Touring, the ‘organizer’ looks back on a career spent championing art exhibitions outside of London

With rare performances at Hong Kong’s Empty Gallery, and exhibiting now in Düsseldorf, the polymath has long worked at the thresholds of perception 

Born in Kandy, Minnette de Silva was the first Asian female architect to be registered with RIBA

Ahead of its showing, the artist spoke to Juliet Jacques about the 24-hour work-in-real-time – widely acknowledged as a video art masterpiece

Born in Venezuela in 1920, emigrating to New York at the age of nine, the artist ranged gracefully across the mid 20th century

Since 1991 the feminist collective has played a key role in nurturing a space for queer activism and sexual and identity politics on film

On the gallery's 250th anniversary, Shahidha Bari looks at the work and legacy of Anglica Kauffman and Mary Moser

Ahead of his first solo in the UK, why the late California-based sculptor’s material sensibility and countercultural ideals deserve reappraisal

In the sculptor’s mini-retrospective at De La Warr Pavilion, suggestive abstractions turn material reality into richly poetic encounters

From fleshy, distorted paintings, capturing the malaise of the 1960s, to colourful abstractions made in exile, the artist was an example to live by

The beloved angst-ridden musician makes a lively turn with her new album, Be the Cowboy

A Nobel Prize-winning writer, a misogynist, a small-town boy with a haughty, big-city gaze: Naipaul’s life was marked by a sense of doubleness

A newly-published collection of the artist’s journals allows silenced voices to speak

At Nottingham’s New Art Exchange, the Lebanese artist uses YouTube to reclaim strategies of media presentation 

A mother’s death, a father’s disinterest: Jean Frémon’s semi-factual biography of the artist captures a life beyond repair

As two recent London exhibitions of the architect’s photographs show, this underappreciated polymath has always been ahead of her time

Moving between figuration and abstraction, the New York-based painter and teacher made work about in-between spaces and from between cultures

From high-end kitchens to backyard pit smokers, the esteemed food writer found art and artistry in ‘the fault lines’ between communities