Stuart Hall

The acclaimed US critic and filmmaker explains how early experiences at the Smithsonian profoundly shaped his life

From a new collection of essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates to The White Pube’s literary debut, frieze editors choose the best books to sink your teeth into this season

At Gallery 1957, London, the Ghanaian artist explores Stuart Hall's theory that cultural identity 'belongs as much to the future as it does to the past'

The 2020 edition of FotoFest, Houston, curated by Mark Sealy, contends with photography’s colonial history and its capacity to speak for black subjects

In the Dream House grapples with the ‘bad PR’ of an abusive queer relationship

In the age of Brexit, we need Cultural Studies more than ever, not least in its call to examine the complex, contradictory relationship between capitalism and democracy

A 1979 televisual essay by the cultural theorist offers insight into black politics and representational struggle in the British media

Hall’s understanding of cultural identity allows us to deconstruct and reconstruct who we think we are

The absence of Hillary Clinton, Stuart Hall’s imaginative Left, and the shadow of population control: what to read this weekend

Decoding the image of Stuart Hall manning a crèche at the Women’s Liberation Movement conference

Playgrounds as radical propositions, the problem with Okja, and debating ‘the dirtbag left’: what to read this weekend

Reclaiming leisure, and the enduring influence of Stuart Hall: what to read this weekend

frieze presents an interview with the award-winning filmmaker, tracing the evolution of his practise