Politics

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

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

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

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’

‘We need to rebuild solidarity’

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

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

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

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

‘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’

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

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

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

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 

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

From being citizens to lovers, the most important things in life can’t be professionalized. Is it time for some politically-directed amateurism?