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The Oscar-winning director trains his unwavering gaze at the site of a tower block fire that claimed the lives of 72 people

BY Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff | 20 APR 23

In essays covering Samuel Beckett to Tacita Dean, the writer reflects on irresistible artworks

BY Bailey Trela | 20 APR 23

Rafa Sales Ross, a former employee of the now-closed Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen, describes what's at stake with public funding cuts across film and culture

BY Rafa Sales Ross | 24 NOV 22

On her latest album, the musician tackles mourning and uses memory as a way to enrich life’s soil

BY Harry Tafoya | 17 OCT 22

Salena Barry reflects on how the public art commission captures the pioneering spirit of Britain’s Caribbean community

BY Salena Barry | 22 JUN 22

Imani Mason Jordan speaks to the artist about how the pandemic has affected her work and what her plans are for Venice

BY Imani Mason Jordan | 22 APR 22

The Austrian artist Wolfgang Zinggl looks back on his social practice collective’s project for the 1999 Venice Biennale

BY Wolfgang Zinggl | 04 APR 22

Huw Lemmy tracks the rise and fall of the UK’s most iconic purveyor of teenage cool, and the desires, hopes and aching failures it left its wake

BY Huw Lemmey | 03 NOV 21

Jamila Prowse reflects on how disability-inclusive resources can create a better art world

BY Jamila Prowse | 03 NOV 21

As Silicon Valley’s latest buzzword picks up traction, Kyle Chayka investigates if this new ‘utopian’ space is just yet another poorly regulated economy

BY Kyle Chayka | 24 SEP 21

As protests roil the opening of New York's Museum of Chinese Art (MOCA), we revisit the role of artist-led activism in Chinatown

BY Audrea Lim | 19 JUL 21

‘Organic Music Societies’ shows the nomadic world the late American jazz icon and Swedish artist created for their friends, collaborators and children, Neneh and Eagle Eye Cherry

BY Anton Spice | 14 APR 21

Cultural censorship helps reinforce Communist Party narratives within China’s borders, but can easily backfire  

BY Rebecca Davis AND Josh Freedman | 23 MAR 21

From its secret removal to its celebrated resurrection, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung explores the lives and afterlives of the Kassel statue controversy

Musician Sumeet Samos on how Dalit music has helped mobilize against caste violence and institutional discrimination

BY Sumeet Samos | 22 MAR 21

The French curator and critic on founding Montpellier Contemporain, the future of institutions and why museums will become editorial platforms

BY Nicolas Bourriaud AND Pablo Larios | 17 MAR 21

50 years ago, a manifesto by Seth Siegelaub reimagined what economic justice could look like in the arts

BY Lauren van Haaften-Schick | 10 MAR 21

On the eve of his 50th birthday, Harmony Holiday pens an elegy to the late rapper, whose death was announced last week

BY Harmony Holiday | 08 JAN 21

The need for a digitally touched-up ‘public face’ has become constant and commonplace

BY Priya Khanchandani | 02 JAN 21

Alexandra Kleeman dwells on the necessity of coherence within a pandemic 

BY Alexandra Kleeman | 07 DEC 20