Opinion

Formerly the Royal Museum for Central Africa, the museum was originally conceived as a showcase for King Leopold II’s personal property: the Congo Free State

The New York department store honours a longstanding relationship between contemporary art and window dressing

‘At the moment it is fashionable to show female artists; we have to make the most of it’

Two London exhibitions by belit sağ address police and military violence committed against Kurdish people in Turkey

‘Others my age with lesser work who were men were being celebrated and collected’

It’s possible to think of the director as a troll first and serious director second – this is understandable, but regrettable

‘If you’re a woman you learn to live with a certain level of discomfort’

In a new book, T.J. Clark scours art historical depictions of divinity for clues about our contemporary age

The Turner Prize-winning photographer’s set design for ENO’s new production asks: can the greatest horror be better communicated by the unseen?

There is no violence in games, only its representation – but a suffragette-beating controversy demonstrates that videogame violence is not without meaning

The creative friction between director and writer distracts from a film dedicated to quietly empowering the marginalized

Screening as part of the London Palestine Film Festival, recent archival research is uncovering important films once thought lost forever

As the Easter Islanders demand that the British Museum return their statue, it’s time to reconsider the meaning of ‘global artworks’

With censorship, abductions, banned journalists and threats towards artists, the erosion of freedoms has deepened

At Brooklyn’s Triangle Arts Association, Tyler Coburn and Ian Hatcher revive the techniques of a Cold War-era covert intelligence programme

Why is the figure of the witch and magical practice making a 21st-century comeback in the arts?

After a five-year redevelopment of the landmark heritage site on Calton Hill, who will this ‘new kind of observatory’ be for?

At the Royal Academy of Arts, an exhibition spans the histories of the Pacific

From capitalist realism to acid communism, new anthology K-Punk demonstrates the reach of the late writer’s cultural criticism

An exhibition at MoMu, Antwerp, spotlights the largely female ‘Textielgroep’ from the 1970s hanging their work alongside contemporary practitioners