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On the death of David Foster Wallace, a writer who reflected upon the joys and complications of language and living

BY Jerome Boyd-Maunsell |

An interview with director Terence Davies

BY Daniel Tapper |

What happens when design collectives start acting like artists?

BY Nick Currie |

Elvis Presley died on Madonna’s 19th birthday, the two stars can be seen as complex and contradictory emblems

BY Sarah Khan |

Angus Fairhurst’s ‘Gallery Connections’ project

BY Matthew Slotover |

The release of the film Chromophobia raises questions about authorship and appropriation

BY David Batchelor |

No Country for Old Men's recent success at the Oscars heralds the return of the cowboy - a figure who, after decades of phenomenal popularity, had all but disappeared from the big, and small, screen

BY Mark Mordue |

A new German translation of the 18th-century book that invented aesthetics highlights its relevance to contemporary practice

Looking back at the work of the late Ettore Sottsass

BY Jennifer Kabat |

When a low-budget Romanian film about abortion won the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival it heralded a new era of filmmaking in a country still struggling with post-communism

Do the record prices being fetched at auction for design mean it should now be considered art?

A new documentary celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Helvetica typeface

BY Emily King |

David Lynch’s first digital video feature, INLAND EMPIRE, is his most experimental work in years

Bamako, a new film from Mali, stages a fictitious trial of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund

From YouTube to a Hussein Chalayan dress, looking back over the most innovative design and technology of 2006

Designers Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have curated an exhibition that celebrates the idea of the ‘Super Normal’

BY Emily King |

Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s compelling films have often delved into the realms of popular folklore and the supernatural. His latest project, Syndromes and a Century, is no exception

BY Bert Rebhand |

First built in 1964 the Boeing 737 is still one of the most popular aircrafts in the world. Celebrations for the 5,000th plane to be constructed prompt a reconsideration of what we think of as good design

BY Richard J. Williams |