Opinion

Jörg Heiser on memes, memory and Errol Morris's Wormwood

A tribute to the iconic New York journal: a platform through which founder Andy Warhol operated as artist, hustler and public intellectual

In this era of rapid change, an introduction to some of the artists responding to the here and now

German museums are being pushed to diversify their canons and respond to a globalized world – but is ‘cleaning up’ the answer?

Sophie Fiennes’s new film Bloodlight and Bami reveals a personal side of the singer as yet unseen 

‘At last there is a communal mechanism for women to call a halt to the demeaning conventions of machismo’

Artist Jesse Jones, who represented Ireland at last year’s Venice Biennale, on what is at stake in Friday’s Irish abortion referendum

Provincial landscapes mask creeping violence in three new novels by Emma Glass, Sophie Mackintosh and Fiona Mozley 

In a year charged with politicized tensions, mastery of craft trumps truth-to-power commentary

A fragment of the brutalist Robin Hood Gardens will go on show at the Venice Architecture Biennale

‘Women's role in shaping the history of contemporary art is being reappraised’

Netflix is actively and self-servingly restricting the platforms films can occupy, but it’s not the only one grumbling about Cannes’s fussy rules

Avengers: Infinity War confirms the domination of mass culture by the franchise: what ever happened to narrative closure?

Pointed in its politics and inspiringly imaginative, Empty Metal queries whether the end of the world might already have taken place

From hobnobbing with Oprah to championing new art centres, millennial crown prince Mohammed bin Salman is following a well-trodden path

Inti Guerrero’s show taps relentlessly at the question: what is the human cost of industry?

A juror for the award last year, Dan Fox on why the Turner Prize is and always will be political (whatever that means)

Homages to the writers and friends at Tate St Ives and Turner Contemporary pay tribute to their affection for the sea as a cipher for the self

Laments for the dead are performed in a secret crypt beneath Islington Green

In our era of easy outrage, the first statue of a woman in Parliament Square is a timely celebration of unwavering belief