Tracing the history of ruins in art, from 18th-century painting to 21st-century film

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK

Giorgio Agamben, trans. David Kishik and Stefan Pedatella (Stanford University Press, 2009)

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Project Arts Centre, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland

Despite the decline of Ireland’s ‘Celtic Tiger’ economy, Dublin’s artist-run and institutional spaces are thriving

Various venues, Daegu, South Korea

Boris Groys in conversation with Brian Dillon

The Crypt, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, UK

Svetlana Boym (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008)

Tate Britain, London, UK

Boris Groys (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2008)

The sophistication of Polaroid technology was not enough to save it from obsolescence – or nostalgia

The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK

Nine theses on slapstick

For over three decades, Susan Hiller’s work has inhabited a space between knowledge and emotion, exploring histories of Modernism, photography and the occult

Susan Sontag’s journals reveal her Warholian efforts at fashioning a persona