Opinion

In the age of Instagram, who owns our images?

Does the crowdfunding platform live up to its promise to ‘change the way art is valued?’

Emerging alternative spaces led by artists of colour leave a stagnant gallery system behind 

The gothic tales of notorious racist H.P. Lovecraft provide source material for HBO’s new show about ‘the hauntedness of Black life’

The first blockbuster to return to theatres demonstrates Hollywood’s eagerness to ‘exploit bodily presence for profit’ during the pandemic

How Spotify and YouTube gave rise to an indie pop ‘internet muzak’

Revisiting the author’s prescient 'manifesto for a fair fight' - first published as an essay in 2014 - now out as a full-length book

The album is a timely affirmation for the global African diaspora, but it can’t be accepted as a universal representation of global Blackness

Pop Smoke’s posthumous release is an authoritarian play on the senses

The artist’s far-seeing experiments with digital avatars and viral antibodies help us better understand ourselves

It’s time to reckon with a US founding father who waged genocidal warfare against Indigenous nations 

Coel's show ‘I May Destroy You’ daringly takes on the intricacies of sexual violence

Take advantage of 'crisitunities' to defend the rights of workers - or exploit them

A work by Georg Herold at Frankfurt's Städel Museum causes a debate on art museum's authority to judge on issues of racism

‘First Cow’, the director’s seventh feature film, which began streaming 10 July, offers a humanistic alternative to the grand myths of Manifest Destiny

The musician remembers coming out in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War and the recent death of Egyptian queer activist Sarah Hegazi

A rarely seen documentary shows the UK's Black communities in the wake of two tragic incidences of police brutality towards unarmed Black mothers in 1985

Retro pleasures are a smokescreen that fails to conceal the painfully quick dismantling of institutions that have lasted centuries

Patriotic imagery and calls for ‘togetherness’ distract from grass-roots demands for systemic change

Describe a global crisis in 600 words? Too hard. But isn’t everything else irrelevant right now?