Opinion

Green unpleasant land? As the UK braces for election week, it might be time to abandon the myth of Englishness

This year, all the shortlisted artists were named joint winners – what to make of this act of (institutionally approved) subversion?

Wolfson believes art has no relationship to ethics; after a decade of shock, it’s hard to take him seriously

In the 2010s, nearly every blockbuster film has been a visual-effects-driven fantasy spectacle owned and distributed by a single corporation

The 2013 album is a compelling record of our collective fracturing 

From Gen-Z Yellow to Neomint, the confluence of money and the attention economy filled the 2010s with clashes of unexpected hues

Have the feminist politics of maximalist pattern and craft now been co-opted by neoliberals?

The Asian-American designers embrace alienation as an integral aspect of identity

Berlin’s Altes Museum and the Kunstvereins in the Rhineland look at the fabrication of male identity and power 

To expect the progressive, internationalist art world to participate in a celebration of Brexit is to fire a volley into the culture war

Matt Wolf’s new film, ‘Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project’, is an astonishing portrait of an almost incomprehensible endeavour

Few other labels could claim to have cultivated such a coherent philosophy over the years: one which unites the pleasure of partying with its darker side

Awarding the Nobel to a Milosevic apologist, splitting the Booker Prize, and the death of the Western canon’s most ardent defender: what is the political function of literary culture today?

The new film is neither as sombre and meditative as the work of contemporaries such as Robert Redford, nor as adaptive as the real-world activism of Jane Fonda

Marwa Arsanios’s latest documentary offers a powerful glimpse at the autonomous movement now being torn apart

A new spirit of bleak realism and self-questioning has infiltrated comic adaptations everywhere

For too long ‘doing what you love’ has been a neat excuse to devalue artistic labour

From Palantir to Microsoft to Google, the new resistance arises from labour itself

A group exhibition at Pérez Art Museum Miami challenges apocalyptic forecasts for a region on the front lines of climate change 

‘Lande’, at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers, begets core questions about art and its display