Opinion

An excerpt from ‘Idle Sheets’, a rare archival gem, provides invaluable insights from the scene’s first historian

Other highlights include two reissues from the UK experimental quartet Throbbing Gristle and Bill Gunn’s magnum opus Personal Problems 

From Nicole Kidman’s BDSM adventures to a pastoral docudrama by French twin directors Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, here are five films to keep an eye out for this year

This oral history, with insights from the publication’s editors and contributors, delves into its mission to shape perspectives on the Middle East

The artist’s paintings, featured in the upcoming Gwangju Biennale, are strikingly familiar yet elusive, offering a challenge to decode

As an exhibition on the late artist opens in São Paulo, Fernanda Brenner reflects on the comfort she found in his delicate drawings

The centenary of the writer’s portrait-poem ‘If I Told Him’ is marked with an elegy on its enduring impact

An exhibition organized by arts foundation Perasma adds to the wealth of cultural offerings in the Dodecanese this summer

The author’s latest book, documenting an attempt to revive an abandoned cinema in Hungary, teases out the magic charm of film

Other highlights include Beach Sessions Dance Series in New York and Aruna D’Souza’s Imperfect Solidarities

Widely credited with popularizing large-scale exhibitions in Germany and abroad, the curator was a celebrated and sometimes controversial advocate for contemporary art

How architects in post-independence Ghana and India wrested building from their western forbears

Amid rising political instability, practitioners are tackling working conditions and class relations with renewed urgency and determination

Other highlights feature a soundtrack to Leonardo da Vinci’s life and a captivating Arthur Russell biography

At Bold Tendencies in London, Jacob Samuel and Courtney Deyn’s latest ballet, ‘WHO HURT YOU?’, vividly portrays queer performers reaching their breaking point

The Dutch painter, whose 60-year oeuvre toyed with the limits of artistic genres, leaves behind a legacy inspired by the world around her

On the eve of the Games, the city’s sports-related cultural offerings prove artists and athletes have more in common than we think 

Urbanist Justinien Tribillon's debut book explores the city through its peripheries and histories of urban planning 

Performing at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), ‘If you unfolded us’ celebrates Black queer love and kinship that persist despite violent climates

Other highlights include a documentary on the political and religious conflicts in one Iranian family and Elizabeth Willis’s new book on US pioneerism