State of the Art

On exits and exiles

What makes us human

The complicated idea of ‘home’

On collective memory and personal experience

Creativity as resistance

Artists and the freedom of the desert

Movie stars, late capitalism and fragmented attention spans

What the story of El Greco tells us about how art history is made

Can’t relate? Don’t worry: you’re not alone

An art education — at what cost?

The role of poetry in the world of appearances

What makes a war story true?

Museums take on social practice

The art world’s ambivalent response to surveillance

New shows, same old problems

From Russia to the UAE — to boycott or not to boycott?

Can old ways be better ways? Or, Irony, playful ambivalence and fixed meanings

Sifting fact from fiction

From the Vatican to the Venice Biennale: the limits to symbolic acts of altruism

Claire Bishop versus the Internet