Opinion

A recent spate of TV shows set in Missouri show the state as a cultural imaginary on the fault line of US political debate

From 14th-century frescos in Siena to a refugee camp in Greece, Astra Taylor's new documentary examines the corrosion of electoral politics

The reputation of the Crown Prince is now unsalvageable, with talk of Saudi ‘reform’ reduced to an international joke

An altercation between a White House correspondent and the president becomes a visual question: what is it that we see?

From imperial jewels to a miniature sarcophagus, this chamber of curiosities at the Kunsthistorisches Museum mixes fastidiousness with kitsch

With the current Anni Albers show at Tate Modern marking a resurgence in textiles, charting the changing perceptions of fabrics throughout art history

What many call a national movement is far from it: the price for people to tell their stories remains too high

At the Photographers’ Gallery in London, a show examining the increasingly ubiquitous images produced by machines

Monrovia, Indiana, a folksy, novelistic tale of white America, plays somewhere between documentary, cliché and ghost story

An exhibition at Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, timed to coincide with the Yalta European Strategy conference, reminds of the corruptibility of culture

At Manchester Art Gallery, an exhibition brings attention to how the selected ‘highlights’ of a collection tell a deeper story of erasure 

Many of the streaming giant's curated playlists complicate Western obsessions with ‘world’ and ‘exotic’ music

The second edition – Michael Dean, Mona Hatoum, Phillip Lai, Magali Reus and Cerith Wyn Evans – pits old guard against young guns

Bolsonaro’s repeated insults towards women, people of colour and the LGBT community, should have been enough to derail his campaign – it wasn’t

Beyond the ‘forcefield of righteousness’ that occludes some political work, ‘Artes Mundi 8’ manages a complicated and rewarding show

With the anniversary of last year’s Catalonian bid for independence, a lens on the region’s cultural radicalism

Talk of the Booker Winning-novel as ‘baffling’ and ‘tough’ suggests such journalists may be more trained in the Burns-ian method than they think

When confronted with a deeply damaging past, it becomes necessary to take action to return us to the present

Seeking to address the inadequacies of current educational models is an urgent and ambitious task, but this show’s answers fall into nostalgia

From Diamantino to The Grand Bizarre, the most intelligent films are also among the most joyous