Opinion

At Manchester Art Gallery, an exhibition brings attention to how the selected ‘highlights’ of a collection tell a deeper story of erasure 

Many of the streaming giant's curated playlists complicate Western obsessions with ‘world’ and ‘exotic’ music

The second edition – Michael Dean, Mona Hatoum, Phillip Lai, Magali Reus and Cerith Wyn Evans – pits old guard against young guns

Bolsonaro’s repeated insults towards women, people of colour and the LGBT community, should have been enough to derail his campaign – it wasn’t

Beyond the ‘forcefield of righteousness’ that occludes some political work, ‘Artes Mundi 8’ manages a complicated and rewarding show

With the anniversary of last year’s Catalonian bid for independence, a lens on the region’s cultural radicalism

Talk of the Booker Winning-novel as ‘baffling’ and ‘tough’ suggests such journalists may be more trained in the Burns-ian method than they think

When confronted with a deeply damaging past, it becomes necessary to take action to return us to the present

Seeking to address the inadequacies of current educational models is an urgent and ambitious task, but this show’s answers fall into nostalgia

From Diamantino to The Grand Bizarre, the most intelligent films are also among the most joyous

‘Personal questions, which might not be asked to a man, are often asked of a woman’

What a brief history of creative destruction reveals about the Sotheby’s shredding stunt

Nicholas Cage, the film’s mesmerizing star, crescendos and explodes, like he’s hamming for his life

With museums suffering from cash-strapped councils and national cuts, the new plan is ‘miles away’ from addressing the crisis

The US writer and filmmaker has created new paths for arts writing and critical thinking, not from wielding a cudgel but by exposing our bruises

Why ACT UP activists spray-painting over artist David McDiarmid’s ‘Rainbow Aphorisms’ posters scored an own goal

In an age when the camera is continually absorbed into other technologies, this inaugural show focuses on photography as practice

Donning a pith helmet for a Kenyan safari, the First Lady revived an age-old symbol of colonial rule

On the eve of her Guggenheim retrospective, a new book of esoteric drawings reveals the spiritualism behind Europe’s first abstract artist

Exhibitions of Do Ho Suh, Heidi Bucher and Doris Salcedo in London affirm the affective qualities of architecture