Dan Fox

Nicholas Cage, the film’s mesmerizing star, crescendos and explodes, like he’s hamming for his life

The controversial intellectual suggests art would be better done at home – she should be careful what she wishes for

Author George Pendle on his biography of Jack Parsons, the scientist, mysticist and follower of Aleister Crowley, now dramatized on CBS

To experience the music of the composer, who passed away last week at the age of 69, was to hear something tense, physical, almost pugilistic

A juror for the award last year, Dan Fox on why the Turner Prize is and always will be political (whatever that means)

With the arrival of the first superhero film to feature a black lead since 1998's Blade, a reading list on black comic-book culture

Ignoring its faux-dissident title, this year's edition at the New Museum displays a repertoire that is folky, angry, funny, urgent and poignant

Learning to appreciate the laws of perspective

Why can’t New York get over its ‘bad old days’?

From skyscraper bridges to giant bio-domes enclosing Manhattan, an exhibition at the Queens Museum takes us on a tour of the city that could have been

Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, USA

Anicka Yi's work fuses biology with technology, finding new ways to talk about gender, race and economics. With an introduction to the work by Dan Fox and a short story by Joanna Ruocco

A first look at ‘Viva Arte Viva’ at the Arsenale

Dan Fox looks at the work of Mark Bradford, who represents the US at this year’s Venice Biennale

Writer Hari Kunzru speaks about his new novel, White Tears, a timely reflection on race, class and cultural appropriation in the US

frieze visits Interference Archive in New York, USA - a volunteer-run collection of social and political objects and ephemera - to find out about its mission and work

A posthumous publication of essays by artist and film theorist Ian White argues that the collective experience of cinema is more relevant than ever

Opening this Friday, a first look at the 78th edition, curated by Christopher Y. Lew and Mia Locks

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

Following Trump’s election, we must all prepare for a different world – one that needs art more than ever