Hito Steyerl

Join us as we count down the defining works that have shaped contemporary art since 2000

As her new book Medium Hot hits the shelves, the artist shares her essential reads – a toolkit for resisting today’s wave of authoritarian tech

Other highlights include artist Sin Wai Kin’s unnerving sitcom and a forthcoming book of essays by Hito Steyerl

Stephen Squibb on the tactics of untruth, from Martha Rosler to Hito Steyerl

An insight into the 2019-20 Serpentine Digital Commissions

Artists, curators and gallerists may not be able to stop war, but we can tell those who rake its profits that the arts are not open for their business

A survey of Germany’s unification events, from David Hasselhoff to Hito Steyerl

With Art Toronto opening on 25 October, don’t miss out on all that the city has to offer

The simplicity of the Japanese architect’s slate ‘wing’ belies its complex construction

From Marina Abramović to extinct tropical birds, seeing more than what’s there

The artist addressed the ‘elephant in the room’ – that London’s Serpentine gallery bears the Sackler name

At an 18th-century neoclassical manor house, this year’s Cinema Camp was inspired by the writings of the late Cuban filmmaker Julio García Espinosa

Hito Steyerl’s Duty Free Art and A Field Guide to the Snowden Files

Guggenheim pull pieces from Chinese art show after animal rights protests; Berlin’s Volksbühne occupied; vandalism at Skulptur Projekte Münster

To celebrate frieze’s quarter century, the editors choose 25 key artworks: one for each year of the magazine’s existence

A report from the 47th edition of the annual photography festival

A report from the 2016 edition of Rhizome’s Seven on Seven conference

A round-up of the best current shows in the city

56th Venice Biennale, various venues, Italy

If exit polls are to be believed (and the recent UK elections have sadly shown they should be) the main show of this year's 56th Venice Biennale is a flop. ‘Dreadful’, 'dire’, 'depressing’ are some of the more printable adjectives I’ve heard to describe it. ‘Venice is Bad' was the insightful email header from a supposedly serious art news source.