Culture

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

A bleak tale of a girl raised in isolation, ‘I Who Have Never Known Men’ takes on new meaning amidst the current wave of lockdown narratives

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

After Hours is filled with a familiar, sometimes crushing, sense of yearning for something more

Before Twitter, Félix Fénéon’s daily ‘novels in three lines’ made a literary art form of current affairs

Ahead of his new work, filmed on a boat in Venice, an interview with the Italian auteur

The critic’s folksy guide, How to Be an Artist, includes some valuable insight on the creative process 

Steven Zultanski on the Chicago-based cult video artist

Juliet Jacques speaks to the pioneering writer and theorist about her new book, ‘Reverse Cowgirl’, an ‘auto-ethnography’ of the self

With shades of the flâneur, the artist wanders the German philosopher’s rural retreat at Todtnauberg in a new series of short films

The most urgent works at this year’s 70th Berlinale Film Festival are about coming to terms with culture’s inherited mythologies

For her latest show at Kerlin Gallery, the artist incites a state of half-recognition reminiscent of Alzheimer’s 

The translator of the Nobel Literature Prize winner on jet lag, death threats and insomnia in Poland

Premiering in the US and UK this month, Céline Sciamma’s lesbian period drama employs the myth of Orpheus to re-centre the female gaze

Learning to survive a jittering feed of survivalist pro tips and transhumanist dreck

‘An Apartment on Uranus’ is about horizons, possibilities, love, desire and alternate spaces of gender-dwelling, written in a time, as the foreword puts it, ‘that has not yet arrived’

At the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, the artist screens the lost films of a Hollywood huckster, a reminder that the media industry runs on broken dreams

With rapid cuts, spatial leaps and sudden bursts of sound, two films at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, create a maze-like experience

The 2013 album is a compelling record of our collective fracturing