Alexandra Kleeman dwells on the necessity of coherence within a pandemic 

Nine artists and curators give their predictions

The Canadian painter’s new work offers a ‘vivid experience of perception without vivid percepts’

Ex voto-like works by Jesse Darling, Julia Philips, Diamond Stingily and the late Donald Rodney imagine a world ordered differently 

What was lost – and what was gained – when the Temple of Dendur came to the Met? 

In three stories, the German filmmaker and writer bears witness to the tentativeness of history

Charles Aubin, Aruna D’Souza, Brendan Fernandes, Ligia Lewis and Paul Maheke take stock of the performance world in the wake of COVID-19 

Primer (2004) asks what happens when history is always hanging in the balance

‘There are artists whose work I’ve loved since I was 12 or 13 and, every once in a while, I go back to them to renew my spirit’

Smith – the subject of a new monograph by Aperture – evokes music and pace through her use of the blur

The author of Glitch Feminism on correcting the cyberfeminist canon, the Black trauma at the root of memes and why online space is still ‘real’

The artist’s ambitious fourth studio album is a genre-bending journey of defiance and radiant elation

A statistician and a novelist on the links between dataviz and storytelling

For David Grubbs, an onrush of music has led to a rethinking of musical ‘speed’ itself

Recent events have shown how deeply our lives are enmeshed with those of others – with the potential for both support and harm

On the visibility of desire during lockdown

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on Little Richard, Édouard Glissant and unapologetic Blackness

Retro pleasures are a smokescreen that fails to conceal the painfully quick dismantling of institutions that have lasted centuries

The weightlessness of the iconic film helps alleviate the oppressive pull of reality

Describe a global crisis in 600 words? Too hard. But isn’t everything else irrelevant right now?

Every day in ‘lockdown’, we are asked to consider the effects of social distancing – as if segregation weren’t already a reality