Opinion

The genre’s relationship with the church is as complex as it is inevitable

How does an image captured 55 million light-years from Earth reflect on humanity?

Super Mario Bros. and Metroid had a profound influence on game soundtracks

The television show – the director’s first – is a sequel to his 1997 film of California queer disillusion, Nowhere

‘In Place of the Real’ focussed on histories of LGBTQI+ people

Though technically innovative, the design of Manhattan’s newest art space is a far cry from its historical precedents

With a number of museums recently rejecting donations from the Sacklers, how far should ethical funding go?

How progressive pedagogy was eventually co-opted by the war machine in 1930s and ’40s Japan

‘This is a story about intellectual openings, the wiring of politics into culture and a cohort of writers gloriously convinced of the world-historical importance of music’

As the BBC comedy ends its second series, its wide acclaim and supposedly universal appeal begs questioning

From whiteness to the male gaze, photographers Hanna Moon and Joyce Ng reflect on the conventions that underpin the fashion industry

As leading arts institutions decline donations over opioid links, the artist and activist on why the age of using culture for ‘reputation laundering’ is over

Artists Ane Graff, Ingela Ihrman and nabbteeri will test the fraught relationship between human and non-human species

The controversial addition to Manhattan’s west side is emblematic of the triumph of digital spectacle over real experience

Once labelled a ‘TV terrorist’, the video artist returns with her first posthumous retrospective at Red Bull Arts New York

A new anthology of 16 films made between 1982 and 2014, highlights the director’s innovative, international approach to her art

‘The Asset Strippers’, at Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries, turns the museum’s elegant sculpture court into a salvage yard

Ahead of the presidential elections on 31 March, the far-right has begun to target cultural institutions

A new show at the Athens Conservatoire gives a rare, discerning take on the causes of our political disillusionment

‘Black people don’t fear the dead, it’s the living we worry about’