Juliet Jacques

From institutions to biennials, the sport is everywhere. But what drives the obsession – and what, if anything, does the beautiful game gain in return?

Ahead of her London exhibition at Kate MacGarry, the artist reflects on attuning to each venue, shaping performances through attentive listening

Following the reopening of Kunsthalle Bern, its director speaks about how European institutions can engage politically with their histories

Amidst yet another pendulum swing toward the right, this timely retrospective at Tate Modern should act as an inspiration

In her latest book, the novelist and essayist considers the use of fiction and literary criticism in times of war and conflict 

At Sid Motion Gallery, London, the artist engages with states of freedom and imprisonment in works that recall the COVID-19 lockdowns

Once dominated by sensational headlines and media hype, the competition now faces an existential question about its place in contemporary discourse

From a new collection of essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates to The White Pube’s literary debut, frieze editors choose the best books to sink your teeth into this season

Amid rising political instability, practitioners are tackling working conditions and class relations with renewed urgency and determination

Minoru Nomata’s paintings of fictional structures lament the buildings that embodied political movements striving for greater equality

Juliet Jacques revisits books, film and art which commemorate the 40th anniversary of the British miners’ strike and working class politics

A show at Auto Italia in London contains an archive of Ryszard Kisiel ‘Filo’, one of the first LGBTQ+ magazines in Central and Eastern Europe

The artist’s films at Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, foreground trans and non-binary concerns while appealing to an audience beyond the community

Project Native Informant in London showcases feature-length films that illustrate the artist’s successful transition from a pornographic to dystopian cyberpunk aesthetic

A new show at Tate Modern reminds us of the impact she made and the possibilities she opened for other artists, from Marina Abramović to Brian Eno

From a rare display of works by Anna Mendelssohn at Whitechapel Gallery to Ellie Pratt’s distorted female portraits at South Parade

Based on first-person testimony, the experimental hybrid opera-film explores class, censorship and how conflict and trauma are depicted

The artist fluctuates between meditation and masochistic intensity at London’s Whitechapel Gallery

The inaugural show at London’s reopened Raven Row presents episodes of ‘Open Door’, a radical 1970s media production model 

From Howardena Pindell’s harrowing retrospective at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, to Garrett Bradley’s moving debut at Lisson Gallery, London