What kind of art do you stand for?

Eggs, poodles, Minimalism?

Art and the Cold Civil War

A brief history of deadly art

Since the late 1990s, the art scene in the Indian capital and its environs has swelled from a handful of galleries to a thriving constellation of non-profits, residency programmes and artist-run spaces.

In a survey show of the artist at Tate Modern, Hirst’s trademark repetitions soon become apparent

On a music festival in Wysing, ‘Thingly Time’, the zigzag wave form of Charlie Brown’s jumper and Bedfordshire

Q: What is art for?

A: It’s a way of resisting the lack of meaning in things, a desperate attempt to make sense of how random and absurd the world is — and it’s also a way of celebrating exactly that.

One woman’s protest in Damascus

The Argentinean artist’s year-long video project Un Futuro Certero (A Certain Future)

What kind of role does art actually play in society? From the Bauhaus to Thomas Hirschhorn, and from The Yes Men to Jean-Luc Godard, how and in what ways does art circulate beyond the sphere of the art world?

The shifting iconography of the wealthy

As a director, writer, artist and, more recently, curator, John Waters has been dealing in taste and transgression for close to 50 years. Here he talks about sex, death, God and the art world

Matthew Darbyshire’s architectural interventions, installations and displays of consumer objects hone in on the gap between what is promised by those who shape our world and what is actually on offer

In a new series, Chris Kraus talks to her long-time friend and editor Hedi El Kholti about the books, authors and landscapes that have influenced her as a writer and filmmaker

Is today’s art too self-referential?

Luc Sante considers a postcard from Gering, Nebraska

Children’s TV shows and tromp l’oeil

In new interviews, Conny Plank’s collaborators – including Brian Eno and Holger Czukay – remember the radical music producer.

The Dutch artist’s carefully scripted day-long conference, Any Other Business

Bertolt Brecht and the media today

Dan Fox talks to Nils Norman, Timotheus Vermeulen, Anton Vidokle and Sharon Zukin about art, gentrification and artistic freedom

The first in an occasional series in which an artist, curator or writer discusses the buildings and environments that have most influenced them

LaToya Ruby Frazier’s specially commissioned project for frieze.