To celebrate the publication of Neil Tennant's collected lyrics, Michael Bracewell pays homage to the pop group 

To celebrate the publication of Neil Tennant’s collected lyrics, Michael Bracewell reflects on one of the great synth-pop groups 

The US writer, who died last week, brought a quality of inestimable importance to the modern novel: a mind that was wholly in tune with the times

‘An artist in a proud and profound sense, whether he liked it or not’ – a tribute by Michael Bracewell

As magic is the power to influence events, Bowie's power found a personal truth in millions of people, and moved them, even changed their lives 

The recent work of Kai Althoff

A slew of new exhibitions celebrate Pop art from around the world

In the run-up to a major solo exhibition at Chicago’s Renaissance Society, Michael Bracewell considers the work of Mathias Poledna

From Californian glamour and Hollywood dreams to loss, loneliness and despair: comedy and melancholy in the work of Friedrich Kunath

Keith Coventry’s fusion of cultural commentary and Modernist art

Lucy McKenzie’s work as part of the collaborative fashion studio, Atelier, embodies the artist’s enquiries into a romanticized past shot through with mythical meaning

Extravagant, experimental and often improvised: the spirit of young artists in British film

Spike Island, Bristol, UK

Bridget Riley has conducted an endlessly enriching inquiry into the relationships between form, composition and visual perception

Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London, UK

Independent publishing has seen a boom in new imprints, often designed by artists, of classic novels and ‘lost’ books