Race

In part two of our special series, Sam Korman argues why the educational responsibility of museums resonates with election issues around race

The US artist reflects on the art and events that have shaped a career spanning almost seven decades

A new Smithsonian Museum highlights African American history and culture

Surrealism, anthropology and the history of the recently re-opened Musée de l'Homme

From collecting apparitions to the contested legacy of black nationalism: what to read this weekend

From Vladimir Nabokov's queerness to John Cage jamming with Sun Ra: what to read this weekend

Personal politics, labelling and the body: an interview with South African artist Mohau Modisakeng to coincide with his first UK solo exhibition

A weekend reading list on the UK vote to leave the European Union

A reading list in memory of the British MP Jo Cox and those who were tragically killed at Pulse Club, Orlando, last week

Race, sexuality and portraiture

Ta Nehisi Coates on race in comics and Donald Trump on contemporary art: what to read this weekend

A fresh look at the music and art of the black radical tradition

The artist explores blackness in visual culture

Thoughts on race and art in the 21st century

A new work by jazz pioneer Anthony Braxton

Rashid Johnson talks to Tom Morton about fiction, humour and homage

Has 12 Years a Slave finally exorcised Hollywood’s racist legacy? A consideration of representations of slavery on screen from The Birth of a Nation to Django Unchained and Belle

The post-colonial essay

Visibility, identity and black people on Mars – Kerry James Marshall in conversation with Ellen Mara De Wachter

The fictitious portraits of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye