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Patrik Sandberg on his years of friendship with the legendary filmmaker

Avram Finkelstein looks back on Gran Fury’s contribution to the 1990 Venice Biennale, The Pope and the Penis, and considers how the immediacy of social media might have impacted the AIDS activist collective

From pole dancing to Disney princesses, the artist ‘hijacks’ modes of performance to show the power dynamics inherent in the way we move

Artists Phoebe Collings-James and Julia Phillips speak to Dr Jareh Das about clay’s physical registers and the ways the material will outlive us

Huw Lemmy tracks the rise and fall of the UK’s most iconic purveyor of teenage cool, and the desires, hopes and aching failures it left its wake

In an age that prizes ‘engagement’, is there usefulness in choosing not to?

Writers Gregg Bordowitz, Pamela Sneed, Sur Rodney (Sur) and Lynne Tillman discuss how the AIDS crisis changed art writing, and what lessons writers might carry over to the Covid-19 pandemic

John Kelsey on how the French iconoclast rewrites film history, one image at a time

Can the story of performer and activist Paul Robeson help us reconcile universalism with Black progress? 

The photographer retraces the history of the German capital's 'African Quarter'

With a retrospective at Munich’s Museum Brandhorst, McKenzie gleans political ideologies from the polishes and veneers of our world

From Clémentine Deliss to Megan Tamati-Quennell, four curators discuss the projects that have informed their thinking around decoloniality

The beasts in the artist’s One or Several Tigers lead us into the tangled thickets of identity and religious ritual

Things to chew over: In the Absence of Our Mothers makes histories of displacement uncomfortably felt