Opinion

Focusing on the ancient ruins offers up the barbarous IS as the real villains, overshadowing the government’s own war crimes

A conference at the Salzburg Summer Academy demonstrated the contentious issues at stake when dealing with the legacy of colonialism – and possible ways forward

At an 18th-century neoclassical manor house, this year’s Cinema Camp was inspired by the writings of the late Cuban filmmaker Julio García Espinosa

Banu Cennetoğlu’s refusal to remake The List, serves as a reminder that bigotry and violence is never far from the surface

Does the French president’s project for a more ‘enlightened’ French youth reveal a hidden agenda?

With authors, curators and musicians recently denied entry, the UK is fast painting itself as a cultural pariah

Why does the ‘men’s rights’ guru to the alt-right surround himself with Soviet-era memorabilia, which he doesn’t even class as art?

Alongside a centuries-old collection of Old Masters, Delftware and Chinoiserie, the Devonshires continue to commission contemporary art 

At the National Theatre of Wales, a performance alive with wild, tactile descriptions compels comparison between the eczema-sufferer and writer

There are perils in deploying bigotry to score political points, but meanings also shift from West to East

In the unashamedly populist ‘Rip It Up’ at the National Museum of Scotland, the joy of fandom resounds but questions about the future are avoided

How will the Black Panther writer, known for his landmark critical assessments of race, take on the quintessential symbol of Americana?

The disconnect between public museum programming and private hire couldn’t be starker – it’s time for the arts to rethink who it accepts money from

Trump’s State Department is more than 3 months late in announcing its national pavilion – testament to the chaos engulfing the administration

The continued dominance of UK-US writers makes a mockery of the Man Booker’s ‘global outlook’

At the crux of this ambitious show lies the question: who is this triennial really for?

A number of galleries have recently been marked for demolition, and a number more fear for their long-term survival

In Eleanor, or The Rejection of the Progress of Love, two women repudiate the long-held expectation: get a husband, make babies

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of WWI, The Head & The Load at Tate Modern makes incomprehension the work’s guiding theme

The punk artists’s invasion of the pitch during the Croatia vs. France match reminded us what Russia’s new ‘normality’ really means