Looking Back 2018

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Standout performances and site-specific installations studded a year characterised by turbulent politics

BY Ruby Brunton |

We said goodbye to Cecil Taylor, Sam Miller, Takehisa Kosugi and many others. New York also welcomed the return of two prominent non-profit institutions

BY Jay Sanders |

Latin American artists respond to nationalism, climate change, and other urgent crises

BY Fernanda Brenner |

Is 2018 the year that we abandon an outdated form of stand-up comedy?

BY Olivia Rodrigues |

The curator, author and director of Dortmunder Kunstverein reflects on a year of shows dealing in magic and mythologies

BY Oriane Durand |

The Berlin-based artist Veit Laurent Kurz shares his favourite shows of the year

BY Veit Laurent Kurz |

2018 gave glimmers of hope for those hoping to defy tech giants – but now is the time to remain vigilant

BY Hili Perlson |

This year saw the publication of a rich vein of books about motherhood and women’s work

BY Carmen Winant |

The glitter of Shanghai’s international art week masks darker changes in the cultural sphere of the People’s Republic 

BY Carol Yinghua Lu |

At Studio Voltaire, London, the artists have transformed the former chapel into a wild Wilde Gesamtkunstwerk

BY Hettie Judah |

A private show in Stuttgart to neo-Nazi demos in Berlin, queer lessons in times of change

BY Kristian Vistrup Madsen |

In a year marked by anger and powerlessness, artists set their sights on empowering counter-narratives

BY Ellen Mara De Wachter |

From environmentalist epics to Norse mythology and the re-emergence of Russian cosmism: John Holten surveys the best books of 2018

BY John Holten |

From Charlotte Prodger’s Turner Prize win to Glasgow School of Art’s gutted Mackintosh building, a sometimes fraught and rarely dull year in Scotland

BY Chris Sharratt |

Despite the ‘golden age of television’ now behind us, several convincing and self-confident series caught our attention

BY Timotheus Vermeulen |

It is not unusual for Cuban artists to grumble about excessive state meddling, but it’s rare for complaints to be aired publicly and collectively

BY Coco Fusco |