Identity

On the visibility of desire during lockdown

The Comedy Central series injects a dose of mania and sloth into the ‘multicultural sitcom’

Green unpleasant land? As the UK braces for election week, it might be time to abandon the myth of Englishness

The artist’s latest commission pulls back the curtain on state power

From literary personas to art world fraudsters, these artists walk a fine line between rerouting their positions and breaking the law

The Berlin-based artist’s mid-career retrospective at Spain’s Reina Sofía is a free and self-determining triumph

A force in the late ’80s and ’90s, the photographer and critic receives her first solo show in over 22 years at Autograph, London

‘Everyone you let in through the back door will disadvantage someone without those connections’, a new report argues

A series of extraordinary self-portraits taken in rural France over three decades prompt questions around gender, identity and biography

Curator Raphael Gygax brings together eleven artists from eight countries for this year’s Frieze Projects

An interview with Rosie Hastings and Hannah Quinlan about their project, UK Gaybar Directory 

Personal politics, labelling and the body: an interview with South African artist Mohau Modisakeng to coincide with his first UK solo exhibition

From the poetry of the late Geoffrey Hill to the new literary genre of the 'ultra-unreal': what to read this weekend

A report from the inaugural ‘Thinking at the Edge of the World’ conference, held on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard

From socially engaged poetry to matters of style: what to read this weekend

David Levine, whose work embraces theatre, performance and video, discusses acting and identity

What does it mean to be a professional artist?