Opinion

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

Curators, writers and acolytes pay tribute to the legendary video artist who was a ‘master of his craft’

By foregoing a meaningful environmental message, the disaster film sequel risks being just another unnecessary remake

A padlock and chain shutters the gates of Ramshorn Cemetery in Glasgow, holding significance to the broader history of conceptual art 

The satirical TV series about a ‘woke’ white couple’s real-estate ventures – starring Nathan Fielder, Ben Safdie and Emma Stone – critiques the art world

The celebrated artist is interested in the role of modernism in statecraft and conflict

This year’s European Capital of Culture takes steps to improve its wartime image through new cultural initiatives

Minoru Nomata’s paintings of fictional structures lament the buildings that embodied political movements striving for greater equality

Other highlights include an epistolary novel by Hannah Regel and the indie horror film 'I Saw the TV Glow'

Juliet Jacques revisits books, film and art which commemorate the 40th anniversary of the British miners’ strike and working class politics

Other highlights include Chigozie Obioma’s new novel and Ncuti Gatwa’s charismatic take on Doctor Who

The all-women programme ‘What if Women Ruled the World’ addresses gaps in the art historical canon

The writer’s seventh novel examines social divisions through relationships formed in a 1990s London art world fuelled by power and wealth