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