In These Intemperate Times

From Kader Attia's couscous sculptures and Isa Genzken's 'towers', to Rorschach tests and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

Growing old and growing value 

How remembering the AIDS epidemic helps endure the crises of today

Drowning sorrows and watching Warhol’s Drunk aka Drink

Trump, trigger alerts and trauma

Encounters with the late Chantal Akerman's films

Why theatre remains vital

The glorification of the pontiffs of Palo Alto

The importance of being curious

In defence of irony

The myth of the ‘Great American Novel’

The politics of pants

Words and nations

How taste and preferences change

Boredom and death: two sides of the same coin?

How do artists respond to current events?

What constitutes political art?

How our attitudes betray us

A new book on the writing of Diane Arbus prompts a deeper understanding of her photographs