2017

The best films, books and shows focusing on representations of gay life in 2017

A year of protest and performance in Los Angeles

Berlin-based DJ and producer M.E.S.H. (James Whipple) on the books, events and music that made his year

Melissa Gronlund on the best of a bad year: from activists in Jakarta, images of Mecca and labour negotiations in the UAE

In a year marked by natural disasters, some of the best exhibitions in Latin America were attempts to make sense of the environment

From Anthropocenic doom in Cecilia Alemani’s Italian Pavilion in Venice to Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting in a Room at d14

Artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan on the pivotal sounds and stories from 2017, from historical fiction to Vince Staples’s representation of race

Where the fight against reactionary conservative activism in Brazil stands ahead of the 2018 presidential elections

From Brisbane to Melbourne, Hobart’s ‘Hobiennale’ and ‘The National’ in Sydney, the year in review down under