Afrofuturism

As she finishes a two-month residency at DEO Projects, Chios Island, the artist discusses how maritime history has informed her practice

The creator of otherworldly cover art has died aged 69

In the artist’s largest survey to date, science fiction and narratives of black resistance offer a vision of a more inclusive future

Our institutions deserve to be led by directors aware of the continual effects of colonialism

Screening at galleries around the world, the singer’s work repurposes the pop music video into an artwork of museum quality

In further news: V&A acquires Extinction Rebellion artefacts; Baltimore Museum of Art launches Matisse research centre

Several exhibitions across the city ask: do we need another hero?

Why is the figure of the witch and magical practice making a 21st-century comeback in the arts?

Exotic flora and tentative ‘Afronauts’ speak to a sense of alienation, but throughout the artist’s work runs a current of optimism 

The mythic time of comic-book narrative represents a fatal challenge to the film’s transcendent politics