Opinion

After Hours is filled with a familiar, sometimes crushing, sense of yearning for something more

The fifth season of Billions is a queasy portrait of inequality in the US, but it can be hard to look away

In FX’s new series, the women on both sides of the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment know that the totems of power are often just good grooming

As COVID-19 intensified, video games about disease spread

A new Netflix documentary and an online exhibition at Fierman Gallery, New York, celebrate the legacy of a shuttered gay bookstore, and the world disappearing along with it 

Six minutes of the glossy new streaming app’s TV-for-smartphone ‘quick bites’ can feel like an eternity

From his parodies of celebrity culture to his depiction of gender identities, there is still a lot to unpack on the centenary of the film director’s birth

Why be part of the art world when you can just crash the party? 

Has Covid-19 made the internet good? It’s important to maintain our scepticism in this moment of unicorn-wifi-in-the-sky ‘niceness’

From an MRSA Quilt to a Plague Dress, how artists are transforming the intersection of medicine and textiles

The psychoanalyst Karen Horney argued that neurosis killed productive artistic practice

For many, talk of wage thresholds and points scored for speaking English will be anathema to a cultural scene defined by its internationalism

The first entirely state-funded art museum on the continent is also a relic of a turbulent political and economic history

The 14-day action is a response to the widespread casualization of labour, overwork and pay decreases

In the beloved Japanese anime films, childhood is a fantastic place of nightmare and wonder

Russia’s artists see Olga Lyubimova as a chequered figure – but anybody has to be better than her predecessor

We tend to think of museums as holding the rare, the valuable, the precious. But MOCA was formed to tell the stories no one else thought were worth telling

The inspired demonstrations include singing, dancing, poetry readings, impromptu exhibitions and a monumental fluorescent light sculpture

A crop of Hollywood ‘grifter’ films reflect growing pessimism about the state of capitalism 

Paywalls are going up everywhere, intellectual property is being jealously hoarded, and the long-predicted streaming wars are finally on