22 artists respond to four questions on political art

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

When colour theory is no longer enough

An interview with Mel Bochner on words, portraits, Roget’s Thesaurus, colour, Jorge Luis Borges, humour, nostalgia and political engagement

Six years ago the run-down Kingsdale School in south London was threatened with closure - until architects dRMM were invited to help with its regeneration; they later invited artist Joep van Lieshout to contribute to the scheme.

Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan’s sculptures, installations and performances mine the space between what you want from something and what that something has to give

Tom Wolfe’s 1970 essay ‘Radical Chic’ explores the decadent relationship between wealth, glamour and extremist politics – and is as relevant today as it was 34 years ago

Last year the Hubble Space Telescope took a long, hard, deep look at what appears to be a nearly empty spot inthe night sky near the constellation Fornax

She is a mightly fabulist, an artist who creates vast and lanyrinthine worlds which she uses as settings for miasmic tales of longing and delusion

Her videos gently unhinge your sense of time and space. No special effects are used, and all the actions shown are real events, none of them what you might call spectacular

One of the extraordinary things about his video is the way that they instantly draw you in, opening a rhetorical chute where you slide past the usual outposts of spectator detachment

Even ‘hawks’ have begun to doubt that exerting ‘hard power’ – sheer military and economic strength – is enough. Cultural persuasion, or ‘soft power’, is the new buzzword

When is art political?