Opinion

Where the fight against reactionary conservative activism in Brazil stands ahead of the 2018 presidential elections

Why do we love to watch people who can’t act?

A year marked by new visualizations, both controversial and celebrated, of the black body

Openings at the new ICA, The Bass and PAMM played out against a backdrop of geographic uncanniness and atmospheric uncertainty

At once stagnant and dynamic, politically tense and blissfully buoyant, the French capital was a strange place to be living this year

From victims of Hurricane Harvey to the music of Roger Waters, 2017 has been full of renewed debate around support for boycotts

From the drone blasts of Polwechsel to Pauline Oliveros's ecological politics, deep listening at the festival’s anniversary edition

From the exhibitions attempting to formulate ‘an acerbic language that speaks to our present epoch’, curator Samuel Leuenberger's highlights

‘Conflicts of interest’ may have cost Beatrix Ruf her Stedelijk job but the problem doesn’t just lie with individuals – it’s structural too

Canada’s newest art museum attempts to reconcile local and international interests

Margaret Lee thanks those who have helped her gain a deeper understanding of how to be more empathetic in difficult times

The French President’s recent comments hint at a dubious politics: using art restitution as a stopgap to France’s postcolonial responsibilities

Tiffany & Co.’s new range of gift objects and the shifting meaning of the ‘everyday’

From Hannah Black to Not Surprised, the changes demanded by today’s letter writers are still a long way from being assured

Twenty years after the First Cyberfeminist International at Documenta X, what does Cyberfeminism look like in 2017?

Nature, science and art combine in Andy & Peter Holden’s Artangel commission and Daisy Hildyard’s new book

A wild weekend at the High Desert Test Sites festival 2017

The staggering price reached by Salvator Mundi prompts the question: what are you really buying when you buy an artwork?

For Performa 17, Barbara Kruger prods New York not to be a jerk

Gaming tools allowed audiences to wander through natural landscapes as stages for environmental activism or psychological thrillers, at Sonica 2017