Opinion

In the beloved Japanese anime films, childhood is a fantastic place of nightmare and wonder

Russia’s artists see Olga Lyubimova as a chequered figure – but anybody has to be better than her predecessor

We tend to think of museums as holding the rare, the valuable, the precious. But MOCA was formed to tell the stories no one else thought were worth telling

The inspired demonstrations include singing, dancing, poetry readings, impromptu exhibitions and a monumental fluorescent light sculpture

A crop of Hollywood ‘grifter’ films reflect growing pessimism about the state of capitalism 

Paywalls are going up everywhere, intellectual property is being jealously hoarded, and the long-predicted streaming wars are finally on

Or, why the Gulf conflicts never really went away

It’s a refusal to learn anything about a culture that could be obliterated

In the 2010s, cinema grappled with the most tangible effects of the climate crisis 

From The Walking Dead to Stranger Things, frightening revivals ‘captured a bit of lost magic in a disenchanted world’ 

In the era of climate crisis, we all need to rethink how and why we travel

Founded in 2009, the app sparked a revolution in sex, dating and the social dynamics of the LGBTQ community

From Grumpy Cat to Pizza Rat, what the images we shared said about the world around us

In 2019, the cityscape around the club has shifted dramatically; the Berlin epithet ‘poor but sexy’ a fading memory

Why the rise of ‘curatorial collectives’ spells an uncertain future for the profession

What art speaks to us when we’re overwhelmed by climate change and global instability?

Co-working spaces provide corporate culture for people who don’t have a corporation

‘Generation Q’ is as implausible as the original series, but complaining about the show’s lack of nuance is missing the point

The 2010s was the decade in which video-game story-telling became self-aware

From normcore’s resurrection of the hoodie to gorpcore’s luxe ‘into the woods’ aesthetic