Opinion

Jamila Prowse reflects on how disability-inclusive resources can create a better art world

As Silicon Valley’s latest buzzword picks up traction, Kyle Chayka investigates if this new ‘utopian’ space is just yet another poorly regulated economy

As protests roil the opening of New York's Museum of Chinese Art (MOCA), we revisit the role of artist-led activism in Chinatown

‘Organic Music Societies’ shows the nomadic world the late American jazz icon and Swedish artist created for their friends, collaborators and children, Neneh and Eagle Eye Cherry

Cultural censorship helps reinforce Communist Party narratives within China’s borders, but can easily backfire  

From its secret removal to its celebrated resurrection, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung explores the lives and afterlives of the Kassel statue controversy

Musician Sumeet Samos on how Dalit music has helped mobilize against caste violence and institutional discrimination

The French curator and critic on founding Montpellier Contemporain, the future of institutions and why museums will become editorial platforms

50 years ago, a manifesto by Seth Siegelaub reimagined what economic justice could look like in the arts

On the eve of his 50th birthday, Harmony Holiday pens an elegy to the late rapper, whose death was announced last week

The need for a digitally touched-up ‘public face’ has become constant and commonplace

Alexandra Kleeman dwells on the necessity of coherence within a pandemic 

A slew of new books discuss the social and political history of scent, from holy smokes to slave ships

Remi Weekes transposes the classic haunted house genre to a mouldering council flat inhabited by South Sudanese refugees

Charges of ‘attempted theft of a cultural asset’ against Congolese activist Mwazulu Diyabanza reveal the abyss of Europe’s self-referential legality

How Genshin Impact’s use of gambling and intimacy embody artist Lawrence Lek’s concept of ‘sinofuturism’

The author’s latest novel, ‘The Silence’, is full of questions with obvious answers

The prolific Beat poet, who died aged 86 on 25 October, left behind a powerful and ever-urgent call to action in her Revolutionary Letters

Since the beginning of the 20^th century, aerial technologies have lent the sky – and the birds that fly through it – with a threatening presence

The new Netflix documentary is a distraction from the drive to regulate tech companies, including Netflix itself