Art History

The legacy of Guy Debord and the connections between terrorist strategies, the networked 21st century and historical avant-gardes

What do the first art works and recent speculations about early man tell us about today?

A new book documents 17 years of projects by art collective Group Material

The intertwining of melancholy and possibility in contemporary photography

Tracing the history of ruins in art, from 18th-century painting to 21st-century film

The re-writing of art history in South Africa

The resurgence of interest in Italian Modernists demonstrates the European avant-garde’s influence on a new generation of artists

Extravagant, experimental and often improvised: the spirit of young artists in British film

Vladimir Solovyov is now – thanks to Lenin’s censorship – the most important philosopher you’ve never heard of

Pitting Marcel Duchamp against Rocky Balboa in a silent struggle over the Statue of Liberty and the American Dream

Jean-Siméon Chardin

Elizabeth Peyton