Opinion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alexandra Kleeman dwells on the necessity of coherence within a pandemic