Opinion

‘If you’re a woman you learn to live with a certain level of discomfort’

In a new book, T.J. Clark scours art historical depictions of divinity for clues about our contemporary age

The Turner Prize-winning photographer’s set design for ENO’s new production asks: can the greatest horror be better communicated by the unseen?

There is no violence in games, only its representation – but a suffragette-beating controversy demonstrates that videogame violence is not without meaning

The creative friction between director and writer distracts from a film dedicated to quietly empowering the marginalized

Screening as part of the London Palestine Film Festival, recent archival research is uncovering important films once thought lost forever

As the Easter Islanders demand that the British Museum return their statue, it’s time to reconsider the meaning of ‘global artworks’

With censorship, abductions, banned journalists and threats towards artists, the erosion of freedoms has deepened

At Brooklyn’s Triangle Arts Association, Tyler Coburn and Ian Hatcher revive the techniques of a Cold War-era covert intelligence programme

Why is the figure of the witch and magical practice making a 21st-century comeback in the arts?

After a five-year redevelopment of the landmark heritage site on Calton Hill, who will this ‘new kind of observatory’ be for?

At the Royal Academy of Arts, an exhibition spans the histories of the Pacific

From capitalist realism to acid communism, new anthology K-Punk demonstrates the reach of the late writer’s cultural criticism

An exhibition at MoMu, Antwerp, spotlights the largely female ‘Textielgroep’ from the 1970s hanging their work alongside contemporary practitioners

A recent spate of TV shows set in Missouri show the state as a cultural imaginary on the fault line of US political debate

From 14th-century frescos in Siena to a refugee camp in Greece, Astra Taylor's new documentary examines the corrosion of electoral politics

The reputation of the Crown Prince is now unsalvageable, with talk of Saudi ‘reform’ reduced to an international joke

An altercation between a White House correspondent and the president becomes a visual question: what is it that we see?

From imperial jewels to a miniature sarcophagus, this chamber of curiosities at the Kunsthistorisches Museum mixes fastidiousness with kitsch

With the current Anni Albers show at Tate Modern marking a resurgence in textiles, charting the changing perceptions of fabrics throughout art history