Opinion

Narratively, the ‘choose your own adventure’ film is a dead-end, with repetition and wheel-spinning increasingly producing frustration

Director Yorgos Lanthimos does away with the prudish niceties of the Merchant Ivory format with satisfying energy

A new biography of Philip Johnson reveals the contradictions and ambiguities of the world’s first ‘starchitect’

The 16th edition of the festival peddles a political cinematography of hope, honesty and humility

Isao Takahata’s landmark 1988 anime, which now receives its US theatrical release, crafts a dark moral universe through moments of poignant stillness

In decontextualizing the former Vice President from geo-political circumstance, Adam McKay’s film threatens to add gloss to Cheney’s reputation

Sublime terror in a time of ecological crisis: a report from London Contemporary Music Festival

A swathe of renovations and extensions across the UK capital suggests an appetite for a different kind of architecture

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

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

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

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

Debates around restitution are breaking with increasing force against the doors of Europe’s treasure chambers; a new report may prove decisive

Why the yellow high-visibility vest is a paradoxical symbol for the protest movement roiling France

Formerly the Royal Museum for Central Africa, the museum was originally conceived as a showcase for King Leopold II’s personal property: the Congo Free State

The New York department store honours a longstanding relationship between contemporary art and window dressing

‘At the moment it is fashionable to show female artists; we have to make the most of it’

Two London exhibitions by belit sağ address police and military violence committed against Kurdish people in Turkey

‘Others my age with lesser work who were men were being celebrated and collected’

It’s possible to think of the director as a troll first and serious director second – this is understandable, but regrettable