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In the age of Brexit, we need Cultural Studies more than ever, not least in its call to examine the complex, contradictory relationship between capitalism and democracy

BY Rob Sharp |

At Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, Rizzo’s performance ‘Higher.xtn’ unpicks the communal politics of the dance floor

BY Stanton Taylor |

Newly published in the US, ‘Birthday’ sees the Argentinian writer at his most personal – and vulnerable

BY Steven Zultanski |

The film adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel imbricates joyful moments within a fraught political and racialized landscape

BY Kareem Reid |

From an artist collective’s grassroots initiatives in Indonesia to helming the renowned exhibition in Kassel

BY Hili Perlson |

For Benjamin Britten, Wolfgang Tillmans and Virginia Woolf, something grows when civilization fails

BY Olivia Laing |

‘History is full of people who just didn’t,’ reads the first line of her riveting opening essay, which also serves as a sort of statement of intent

BY Negar Azimi |

The poet’s new collection chronicles a father’s succumbing to dementia and a daughter’s attempt to endure

BY Harry Thorne |

A new collection of works by the late US novelist and filmmaker shows an artist seeking to become free in ways that most women never achieve

BY Morgan Jerkins |

Fashion designer Molly Goddard and photographer Sarah Edwards turn garments into abstractions at London’s Chelsea Space

BY Ana Kinsella |

Restitution is critical but we can’t let the process be co-opted by those who seek to evade responsibility for Europe’s pillaging past

BY Jess Saxby |

A riff on the gallery’s landmark 1956 show, Whitechapel Gallery’s latest exhibition boasts some compelling pairings but has an unconfident, sheepish quality

BY Thomas McMullan |

Often unrecognized, Roma artists and intellectuals have been co-opted and colonized for centuries – a newly launched archive seeks to reconsider their contribution

BY Ethel Brooks |

With art lessons and trips to museums on prescription, the links between culture and health are being reconsidered

BY Chris Sharratt |

A rare screening of ‘The Dilapidated Dwelling’ (2000) at the Barbican shows why Keiller’s films should be compulsory viewing

BY Dan Hancox |

‘Keep It Complex’, a group of artists and designers, have launched a campaign to encourage voting, and hold the art world accountable

BY Ellen Mara De Wachter |

The retrospective at Tate Britain of the veteran photographer is filled with masterpieces that are also crime scenes

BY Darran Anderson |

Narrative is often the conduit for racist ideology, particularly in a Hollywood that favours ‘feel good’ narratives of black life; avoiding it altogether reads, then, like a protest

BY Jacolby Satterwhite |

In the age of #MeToo, does the recent proliferation of films and TV shows about serial murderers hint at a troubling resurgence of sociopathic masculinity?

BY Masha Tupitsyn |

A 1979 televisual essay by the cultural theorist offers insight into black politics and representational struggle in the British media

BY Rianna Jade Parker |