Opinion

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

The Korean director’s win marks a return to the expected, after years of films with mixed critical and populist support taking the top prize

In ‘New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century’ at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the definition of ‘technology’ is intentionally loose

Scherer’s ‘didactic operetta’ at Kinderhook & Caracas, Berlin, mimics a world of debased authority

The Golden Lion-winning Lithuanian Pavilion, ‘Sun & Sea (Marina)’, crafts an endless pop song for the end times

By Natasha Ginwala with contributions from Abdul Halik Azeez (@Colombedouin), Muvindu Binoy, Sandev Handy, We Are From Here, Imaad Majeed and Pushpakanthan Pakkiyarajah

How cyborg identities have empowered women to challenge societal norms