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The origins of Gustave Courbet’s ‘Origin of the World’

How did the design school impact on the Antipodes?

‘Kara Walker reinvents painting and drawing’s conventions, while talking about ideas that are epic in scale and deep in blood,’ Als writes

As the artist’s largest survey to date opens at Zeitz MoCAA and Norval Foundation, Cape Town, Sean O’Toole examines his dadaist lexicon 

Performed images in contemporary art and everyday life

Fabian Schöneich on the artist’s new performance at Kunsthalle Basel

Contemporary art’s resurgence of interest in magic has a powerful art-historical precedent

Specially commissioned recipes by nine artists, including Otobong Nkanga, Heather Phillipson and Rirkrit Tiravanija, ranging from abstract to delectable 

Jesse Connuck on works by Congolese Plantation Workers Art League & Renzo Martens, Torolab and Annalee Davis

A Series on the Senses: Touch

A Series on the Senses: Sight

A Series on the Senses: Hearing

A Series on the Senses: Taste

50 years since Apollo 11 and the Manson killings, Lucy Ives reflects on the guilt and male privilege that plagued the Summer of Love

For more than 60 years the Tehran-born, Minneapolis-based artist has made work about community, coexistence and the experience of exile

The leading Argentinian novelist recalls the cruelty of his hometown’s self-designated cultural curator: his mother

After her celebrated book Seasonal Associate, author Heike Geissler presents a new story for frieze

Writer Jörg Scheller considers her practice in light of contemporary political debates and artist Juliette Blightman delves into Cahn’s recently published texts

With a recent show at Stephen Friedman Gallery, the Grenadian-born British artist talks to Osei Bonsu about painting, London's 1980s club scene and moving to Cornwall

Can Natascha Süder Happelmann succeed in doing away with national ‘representation’ altogether?