Opinion

Once dominated by sensational headlines and media hype, the competition now faces an existential question about its place in contemporary discourse

Artists and celebrities pledge support for the democratic candidate, bolstering her online image through donations and agit-prop

Widely credited with popularizing large-scale exhibitions in Germany and abroad, the curator was a celebrated and sometimes controversial advocate for contemporary art

By foregoing a meaningful environmental message, the disaster film sequel risks being just another unnecessary remake

The satirical TV series about a ‘woke’ white couple’s real-estate ventures – starring Nathan Fielder, Ben Safdie and Emma Stone – critiques the art world

The author’s latest book on his attempted assassination is a doting memoir about love and the allure of life

'Love Songs' at International Center of Photography, New York, suggests that queer art is inherently allergic to telling a representational story of intimacy

The Oscar-winning director trains his unwavering gaze at the site of a tower block fire that claimed the lives of 72 people

Rafa Sales Ross, a former employee of the now-closed Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen, describes what's at stake with public funding cuts across film and culture

On her latest album, the musician tackles mourning and uses memory as a way to enrich life’s soil

Salena Barry reflects on how the public art commission captures the pioneering spirit of Britain’s Caribbean community

Imani Mason Jordan speaks to the artist about how the pandemic has affected her work and what her plans are for Venice

The Austrian artist Wolfgang Zinggl looks back on his social practice collective’s project for the 1999 Venice Biennale

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

Jamila Prowse reflects on how disability-inclusive resources can create a better art world

As Silicon Valley’s latest buzzword picks up traction, Kyle Chayka investigates if this new ‘utopian’ space is just yet another poorly regulated economy

As protests roil the opening of New York's Museum of Chinese Art (MOCA), we revisit the role of artist-led activism in Chinatown

‘Organic Music Societies’ shows the nomadic world the late American jazz icon and Swedish artist created for their friends, collaborators and children, Neneh and Eagle Eye Cherry

Cultural censorship helps reinforce Communist Party narratives within China’s borders, but can easily backfire  

From its secret removal to its celebrated resurrection, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung explores the lives and afterlives of the Kassel statue controversy