Looking at recent work of the legendary and elusive California-based artist Lutz Bacher

Jennifer Higgie interviews the artist at his Paris studio

A brief history of unique singing techniques

Experimental fiction, speculative portraits and shifting contexts

From Russia to the UAE — to boycott or not to boycott?

A response to Richard Prince

Institutions in Catalonia

Archiving Asia’s contemporary art

On teaching criticism and ‘art writing’

The problems of defining and exhibiting sound art

Jennifer Doyle discusses her new book, Hold it Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

50 years of Van Dyke Parks

Gentrification and independent publishing in San Francisco

The framing of art and life in Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers

The British artist discusses the films that have most influenced him

Tate Britain, London, UK

Unbearable lightness, the fashion industry and ‘portraits of nouns’

A number of  long-overdue exhibitions have recently celebrated the achievements of overlooked women artists. What’s driving this wave of rediscoveries?

Buster Keaton’s family vaudeville act

The philosopher Achille Mbembe once called Johannesburg the ‘elusive metropolis’. From emerging project spaces to women’s labour issues, Sean O’Toole and Gabi Ngcobo report on this constantly changing city of 4.5 million inhabitants, in which a strong photographic tradition — that includes David Goldblatt, Zanele Muholi and Santu Mofokeng — provides something of an anchor

Bik Van der Pol: artists as undercover agents

From clairvoyance to religiosity and the secret of the ‘100 Black Planets’

A work-in-progress about the complex world of the Bedouins

Film director Nicolas Roeg talks to his friend, the artist John Stezaker, about collage, editing and memory, and film’s ability to ‘trap shadows’

Q. What image keeps you company in the space where you work? A. The window.