Queer Politics

The collective’s retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada extends from foundational mail art to hard-hitting installations about HIV/AIDS

‘Generation Q’ is as implausible as the original series, but complaining about the show’s lack of nuance is missing the point

In the Dream House grapples with the ‘bad PR’ of an abusive queer relationship

A private show in Stuttgart to neo-Nazi demos in Berlin, queer lessons in times of change

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

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

Since 1991 the feminist collective has played a key role in nurturing a space for queer activism and sexual and identity politics on film

‘This retrospective portrays an inveterate outsider, a champion of the different and disempowered, as a fixture of a canon he reviled’

An exhibition of performances at Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, unfolds the rituals of sexual encounters

Instagram influencers’s minimalist ploy, democratizing the art world and camp’s radical potential: what to read this weekend

The best films, books and shows focusing on representations of gay life in 2017

Meanwhile ... UK cities barred from European Capital of Culture; Zanele Muholi awarded France’s Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters

Recent instances of censorship show an emboldened far right attacking the arts, queer identity and more: artists, curators and writers respond

Nightmarish automated children’s Youtube cartoons, Assassin’s Creed architecture and the Gay Right to the City: what to read this weekend

From re-examined positions, to explorations of gender and energy: a roundup of the best shows across the city

From the new issue of frieze: Changes in urban cultures and queer aesthetics across the Sinosphere 

Ahead of the 5th edition of his cult annual event – the first outside of New York – Stewart Uoo talks positivity, performance and parties

Queer cringe at the BBC and other diversity dilemmas

On the anniversary of the 2016 Orlando massacre, Brendan Fernandes reclaims the dancefloor as a site of resistance

What the Pride flag says about the gentrification of queer politics