Opinion

Lu’s detention has elicited moderate international concern, in stark contrast to the general indifference to the targeting of Uyghur artists in the region

Artist Jonas Lund has created a Cambridge Analytica caricature, ‘Operation Earnest Voice’, with one simple mission – but how serious is his ‘leftist fake news generator’?

In the vast greenhouse complex, goths, art kids, academics and patrons gathered to witness an allegorical spectacle

Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma is full of other movies, yet it ignores the political and dialectical history of movies themselves

The demise of HMV can be mourned as the decline of owning tangible media – but something greater is at stake

The avian playground was a manifesto for a modernism that could employ gymnastic engineering to theatrical effect – what happens with its inhabitants long gone?

Narratively, the ‘choose your own adventure’ film is a dead-end, with repetition and wheel-spinning increasingly producing frustration

Director Yorgos Lanthimos does away with the prudish niceties of the Merchant Ivory format with satisfying energy

A new biography of Philip Johnson reveals the contradictions and ambiguities of the world’s first ‘starchitect’

The 16th edition of the festival peddles a political cinematography of hope, honesty and humility

Isao Takahata’s landmark 1988 anime, which now receives its US theatrical release, crafts a dark moral universe through moments of poignant stillness

In decontextualizing the former Vice President from geo-political circumstance, Adam McKay’s film threatens to add gloss to Cheney’s reputation

Sublime terror in a time of ecological crisis: a report from London Contemporary Music Festival

A swathe of renovations and extensions across the UK capital suggests an appetite for a different kind of architecture

A private show in Stuttgart to neo-Nazi demos in Berlin, queer lessons in times of change

In a year marked by anger and powerlessness, artists set their sights on empowering counter-narratives

From environmentalist epics to Norse mythology and the re-emergence of Russian cosmism: John Holten surveys the best books of 2018

Despite the ‘golden age of television’ now behind us, several convincing and self-confident series caught our attention

Debates around restitution are breaking with increasing force against the doors of Europe’s treasure chambers; a new report may prove decisive

Why the yellow high-visibility vest is a paradoxical symbol for the protest movement roiling France