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After the most contested elections since the country’s return to democracy in 1999, what should Nigeria’s artists and citizens expect from their new Trumpian government?

BY Ayodeji Rotinwa |

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 |

It’s time to reckon with a US founding father who waged genocidal warfare against Indigenous nations 

BY Alan Michelson |

Through her spatial interventions at Établissement d’en face, Brussels, the artist reflects on the layering between art and politics 

BY Martin Germann |

One year into the authoritarian president’s term, Brazilian artists are pushing back against state violence and censorship by summoning the spirit of the ‘sertão’

BY Silas Martí |

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

BY Maxim Edwards |

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

BY Skye Arundhati Thomas |

To expect the progressive, internationalist art world to participate in a celebration of Brexit is to fire a volley into the culture war

BY Tom Morton |

‘Appointed by Barack Obama in 2009, Sotomayor is the fourth woman and the first Latina to serve on the nation’s highest court’

BY Evan Moffitt |

‘Since Lucano was elected mayor in 2004, the town of Riace, located in one of the most impoverished regions of Italy, has welcomed thousands of refugees’

BY Alfredo Jaar |

The inspirational founder of Germany’s Green Party and her untimely death 

BY Chloe Aridjis |

Artist collective For Freedoms’s campaign draws attention to issues of diversity and civic responsibility in the election run-up

The Twin Peaks director says earlier claim that Trump ‘could go down as one of the greatest presidents’ is being taken out of context

The politics of the red cap, a tribute to Studio Ghibli cofounder, and rewatching The Breakfast Club in the age of #MeToo

The limits of multidisciplinarity: from Adrian Piper to the 10th Berlin Biennale

BY Pablo Larios |

What does the new music genre 'necropolo' reveal about Poland's current political situation? 

BY Krzysztof Kościuczuk |

The controversy over the Guggenheim’s ‘Art and China after 1989’ show highlights animal rights activists as one of art’s most ‘engaged’ audiences

A slew of exhibitions commemorates the centenary of the Russian Revolution 

BY Tom Jeffreys |

Christopher Nolan's 'Hobbesian anti-art' and the spectacular implosion of Shia LaBeouf's 'He Will Not Divide Us': what to read this weekend