Opinion

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

Dan Fox meets humanoid Ai-Da and the man who created ‘her’

Nearly 2000 museum workers have shared their salaries online – the vast inequity is difficult to ignore

Affect theory is a carefully constructed blind spot, writes Susanne von Falkenhausen, blind to its own ideologies

From Brooklyn Academy of Music to the New Museum, art workers are increasingly agitating for better compensation and a seat at the table

After gaining UNESCO protected status, acknowledgement of the influential music genre is long overdue 

Experimental producer Matthew Herbert’s enigmatic album trawls a nation’s fault-lines and finds its messy symbolism

The disaster was not a ‘uniquely’ Soviet problem

‘Movies don’t change, and I do, and I don’t. Memory isn’t a choice and, like everyone, I forget way more than I can recall, necessarily.’

Amy Fung’s new essay collection is an infuriated breakup letter to the art world

The fantasy series’ nihilistic refusal of meaning is the bravest TV finale since ‘The Sopranos’

On a viral protest trend and the preposterous history of milk-based eugenics