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Warburg has been credited with both inventing and destroying art history

Short fiction inspired by Aby Warburg’s ‘Panel B’

Is this art? Science? Who cares?

‘There is pain and suffering in these pictures, but also pure possibility’

The consolations of ancient philosophy for our dire moment

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

Steven Zultanski on the Chicago-based cult video artist

Poet Tan Lin recalls growing up in Athens, Ohio, with his sister, the artist Maya Lin – with specially commissioned photography by Roe Ethridge

As Italy comes under full lock-down, surveying the effects of a global health emergency

Michelle Millar Fisher and Andrea Fraser discuss how to radically reshape the power structures of museums today

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

As major exhibitions at Nasher Sculpture Center, National Gallery of Art and the Museum of Cycladic Art honour the iconoclastic sculptor, novelist Hermione Hoby reflects on her six-decade career

As Blake’s most comprehensive retrospective to date closes at the ICA, Los Angeles, Shiv Kotecha examines the artist’s three-decade practice, which revels in the infinite variations of identity and pleasure

In collaborations with her community and family, Halsey leans towards the funky, the funny and the queer

After a storied career documenting faraway places and ‘outsiders’ closer to home, the German experimental filmmaker turns the lens on her own life in her new feature, Paris Calligrammes

Can a trio of exhibitions in New York shed light on this enigmatic figure?

It’s tempting to read Haacke’s longstanding work of institutional critique as prescient. In fact, he’s been an astute observer for long enough to know that current scrutiny of museum ethics is well overdue

The prize-winning sociologist on where measurement fails

In Buffalo, the artist Marlene McCarty has planted a toxic garden that draws on the area’s intertwined histories of capitalism, expropriation and utopian dreaming

The challenges faced by the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern have involved a form of firefighting that many museums outside of capital cities seem in thrall to