Opinion

From his parodies of celebrity culture to his depiction of gender identities, there is still a lot to unpack on the centenary of the film director’s birth

Why be part of the art world when you can just crash the party? 

Has Covid-19 made the internet good? It’s important to maintain our scepticism in this moment of unicorn-wifi-in-the-sky ‘niceness’

From an MRSA Quilt to a Plague Dress, how artists are transforming the intersection of medicine and textiles

The psychoanalyst Karen Horney argued that neurosis killed productive artistic practice

For many, talk of wage thresholds and points scored for speaking English will be anathema to a cultural scene defined by its internationalism

The first entirely state-funded art museum on the continent is also a relic of a turbulent political and economic history

The 14-day action is a response to the widespread casualization of labour, overwork and pay decreases

In the beloved Japanese anime films, childhood is a fantastic place of nightmare and wonder

Russia’s artists see Olga Lyubimova as a chequered figure – but anybody has to be better than her predecessor

We tend to think of museums as holding the rare, the valuable, the precious. But MOCA was formed to tell the stories no one else thought were worth telling

The inspired demonstrations include singing, dancing, poetry readings, impromptu exhibitions and a monumental fluorescent light sculpture

A crop of Hollywood ‘grifter’ films reflect growing pessimism about the state of capitalism 

Paywalls are going up everywhere, intellectual property is being jealously hoarded, and the long-predicted streaming wars are finally on

Or, why the Gulf conflicts never really went away

It’s a refusal to learn anything about a culture that could be obliterated

In the 2010s, cinema grappled with the most tangible effects of the climate crisis 

From The Walking Dead to Stranger Things, frightening revivals ‘captured a bit of lost magic in a disenchanted world’ 

In the era of climate crisis, we all need to rethink how and why we travel

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