Italo Calvino

In homage to Italo Calvino’s ‘Six Memos for the Next Millennium’, artists from Kara Walker to Collier Schorr, explore his six artistic virtues 

Alexandra Kleeman dwells on the necessity of coherence within a pandemic 

Recent events have shown how deeply our lives are enmeshed with those of others – with the potential for both support and harm

Retro pleasures are a smokescreen that fails to conceal the painfully quick dismantling of institutions that have lasted centuries

The weightlessness of the iconic film helps alleviate the oppressive pull of reality

Describe a global crisis in 600 words? Too hard. But isn’t everything else irrelevant right now?

We select seven highlights from the biannual programme of events

A utopian world-in-progress

What art writing can learn from the lessons of literature