Opinion

Once dubbed ‘the world’s factory floor’, Shenzhen has re-invented itself as a centre of innovation 

Changing shapes and sizes on stage is a good move, but a complicated one

US true crime series Unsolved takes two formative pop cultural events to explore their concealed human stories and systemic narratives

Lynne Tillman on Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, a tightly wrought film about a tightly controlled man

The new television series invokes violence and fear as defining forces of civilization, just like the Kenneth Clark original

What the artist’s newly-unveiled chapel in Austin, Texas, tells us about the origins of his practice

The mythic time of comic-book narrative represents a fatal challenge to the film’s transcendent politics

Two controversial events suggest a precarious relationship between China’s culture industry and the state’s soft power project

Why have women been written out of internet history?

Eileen Myles’s new memoir of her dog has much to say about being human

With global issues cutting across disciplines, a number of projects are showing where the mixing of art and science can prove productive

Patrick Grainville's new novel, Cliff of Fools, captures the life of the artist as vividly as his own canvases

At the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the past year has seen the most extensive survey of contemporary Japanese art outside of the country in 17 years 

Ignoring its faux-dissident title, this year's edition at the New Museum displays a repertoire that is folky, angry, funny, urgent and poignant

An insight into royal aesthetics's double nature: Charles I’s tastes and habits emerge as never before at London’s Royal Academy

At transmediale in Berlin, contesting exclusionary language from the alt-right to offshore finance

What makes a commercial exhibition 'museum quality' 

How documentary filmmakers are experimenting with historical narratives to better understand the present

The limits of multidisciplinarity: from Adrian Piper to the 10th Berlin Biennale

The intertwined imaginations of Anthony Powell and Nicolas Poussin