Profiles

The new director of London’s Chisenhale Gallery on thinking like an artist, racial hierarchies in museums and how she nearly didn’t apply for the job

Why generations of students at Cranbrook have made the pilgrimage to Bob & Hazel’s Ceramics in Pontiac, Michigan

As UK ceramics courses dwindle, Troy Town Art Pottery is providing paid weekend employment for a group of young trainees

On the occasion of her exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, the artist speaks to Jessica Loudis about moving to Berlin and ‘shrimping’ rituals 

Wandering Munich with the graphic designer Anna Lena von Helldorff, the author wonders what it means when time constantly overtakes us

frieze senior editor Pablo Larios visits the home of the mother and daughter artists in the Guatemalan highlands

As the artist’s inaugural show at Paula Cooper Gallery opens in New York, Rianna Jade Parker guides us through her filmmaking trajectory

Two exhibitions, at the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Art Institute of Chicago, revisit the radical printmaker’s legacy in the social media age

An out lesbian in the 1920s, Morris threw parties with the Bloomsbury Set and smoked opium with Jean Cocteau – but her story has largely been forgotten

Sean Burns profiles the filmmaker and DJ, a friend to generations of artists, designers and club-goers

From his dreams of Glasgow to nocturnal self-portraits, there was an edge to the writer and artist: a deep well of strangeness

Pharoah demonstrates a way to be in the world as a Black artist, expressing a sense of pride that does not violate privacy

New work on view at Lévy Gorvy proves that the artist, nearing 90, is at the top of his game

An artist who made a mockery of wealth and class pretensions is revivified as a prophet of possibility in a corrupted world

At two solo museum shows, the artist’s animations extend beyond the screen to sculpture, an experimental dance album and merchandise

The lauded photographer of Black American life discusses community, cooking and Aretha Franklin with Rianna Jade Parker

The inventive and evasive choreographer, at work on a new project, grapples with the spectacle of death 

On view at the New Museum, New York, the artist’s avocado oil paintings further her engagement with the politics of migration, trade and diaspora

The prolific Polish writer has a complicated relationship to nationality

The singer committed her life to defying a classical music industry that was not only deeply critical of women’s bodies, but also sceptical of black talent