Opinion

Despite the departure of culture minister Dario Franceschini, who championed foreign talent, hope remains for the country’s famed art institutions

At once whimsical and practical, the international art collective offers a cheery antidote to today’s hyper-efficiencies

At the Courtisane Film Festival, Ghent, Mónica Savirón and María Palacios Cruz's programme of works by neglected women artists

‘I could be the President of the United States, and still half the people in the room would question my authority’

A recent show in New York of the filmmaker’s maquettes highlights his insights into contemporary life

New York in spring: Andrew Durbin turns to film as a way of diary-keeping

The artist’s show at Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland shows her central concern is contingency

At Choi & Lager, Seoul, the artists capture the transience and fragility of contemporary life

Derek Jarman, circular time and seed catalogues: Olivia Laing takes the long view

Paul Rekret surveys ‘chill wave’, the mellow pop, sepia-toned indie and tropical dance tropes in new music releases 

70 years since apartheid became law in South Africa, a retrospective of the photographer's work opens at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

The argument that ancestral connection offers a natural grasp of the complex histories and aesthetics of African art is profoundly misguided

Jan Verwoert considers the history of Manifesta, European politics and whether an art exhibition can unlock the historical potential of a place

A genre more associated with painting, an interest in the environment grounds a number of recent artists’ films 

A new report suggests that women, people from working-class backgrounds and BAME workers all face significant exclusion

As the Man Booker Prize debates whether to nix US writers, the ‘homogenized future’ some novelists fear for British literature is already here

‘Very often, the answer to why not would be: because you’re a girl’ – for this series, writer Fran Lebowitz speaks about her experience in the arts

A show of South Asian art and its links to the UK at the Whitworth reminds us of a brief but important moment of British camaraderie

This year’s edition of the acclaimed documentary film festival showcased an impressive combination of social realism and artistic manipulation

‘The difficulties are those which remain invisible’: for a new series, writer and curator Andrianna Campbell speaks about her experience in the arts