John Keene

Considering the art and writing of the New York based artist, whose work delved into the distances of time and memory

From an exhibition of Francis Bacon’s ‘beasts’ to Terrence Malick’s film on the life of Christ, these are the top picks for the year

 ‘We have lost one of the best and greatest of us,’ Keene writes. ‘She helped us to see and become ourselves, to put pen to paper and language to our lives.’

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

A survey of international writers, curators and artists in response to recent controversies surrounding appropriation

Met Breuer, New York, USA

While the imaginative and aesthetic foundations of the original Black Panther remain, Coates has created a superhero and storyline for a new century