Opinion

Awarding the Nobel to a Milosevic apologist, splitting the Booker Prize, and the death of the Western canon’s most ardent defender: what is the political function of literary culture today?

The new film is neither as sombre and meditative as the work of contemporaries such as Robert Redford, nor as adaptive as the real-world activism of Jane Fonda

Marwa Arsanios’s latest documentary offers a powerful glimpse at the autonomous movement now being torn apart

A new spirit of bleak realism and self-questioning has infiltrated comic adaptations everywhere

For too long ‘doing what you love’ has been a neat excuse to devalue artistic labour

From Palantir to Microsoft to Google, the new resistance arises from labour itself

A group exhibition at Pérez Art Museum Miami challenges apocalyptic forecasts for a region on the front lines of climate change 

‘Lande’, at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers, begets core questions about art and its display

‘Walking alone, he denied himself short-cuts in exemplary style’

Whether pairing the two inspires consternation or praise depends largely on how we conceive of the purpose of the Museum itself

New arrangements of artists from across the planet emphasize broad concepts over tidier organizing principles 

Both environmentally and socially sustainable, Goldsmith Street is a bright spot amidst the UK’s ongoing housing crisis 

‘It’s a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible goose.’ Aren’t so many of us feeling like that these days?

There is a place for evidentiary art – but not for Kenneth Goldsmith’s print-out of 62,000 pages of the former US Secretary of State’s correspondence

The artist and psychogeographer discusses building on the protests of the past

Why are recent blockbuster video games so obsessed with religion?

A new wave of stand-up specials, sketch shows and comedy-dramas are dismantling Hollywood’s white monolith, one gag at a time

From Boudicca to the French revolution’s cockades, brooches have always been used to convey politically-charged messages

Should we be enjoying ourselves as the world goes to hell in a handcart?

In a new collection, the author of ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ updates her approach to feminism and psychoanalysis