Opinion

Like Vivian Maier’s photography, Christina Hesselholdt’s novel embraces digression and relishes humanity in its multiplicity

Our institutions deserve to be led by directors aware of the continual effects of colonialism

Screening at galleries around the world, the singer’s work repurposes the pop music video into an artwork of museum quality

Based on the 2014 Badaun gang-rape allegations, ‘Article 15’ fails to disrupt its ‘Brahmin saviour’ narrative

Why are kids born in the 2000s lip-synching to the 1983 film ‘Possibly in Michigan’?

In 2006, the theorist of ‘hauntology’ and sound-artist walked across the Suffolk coastline – Adam Harper follows in their footsteps, sifting through encrusted layers of history

Amid a carnival atmosphere, Eliasson elicits an emotional reaction to the urgent issues of the day

From Miss Havisham’s wedding dress to Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Red Shoes’, why we’re so obsessed with murderous clothes

Index on Censorship has launched an initiative to help artists navigate draconian limits on free-speech

In a film-worthy new memoir, the Berlin art dealer tells of success despite the odds – yet overlooks much

Sara Sinclair’s new anthology of interviews recalls the parties, the poverty and the ongoing hero worship

The first in a series looking at alternative approaches to biennials 

The video for Swift’s LGBTQ+ anthem is erected on the stereotype of the redneck homophobe

Prada’s latest foray into the Chinese market successfully marries art and brand development

Christina Hesselholdt’s newly-translated book, Vivian, turns the late American photographer’s life into a novel

The British Museum’s survey of Japanese comics plunges us into their strange, visionary wonderlands

50 years after it first aired, remembering the television show’s progressive foundational values

The forthcoming mobile app wants to carry the transactional logic of video games into our unconscious minds

A new report highlights the key role commercial galleries must play in achieving gender parity in the arts

US comedian Tim Robinson is changing comedy – a few minutes at a time