The dead hand of decolonisation
A decade into the culture wars, the argument for decolonising museums has run out of steam
The life and death of Queer Art
Queer culture turns to nostalgia and death
Transhumanist trauma with Ed Atkins
The transhumanist optimism of virtualisation that characterised recent decades has hard yet fleshly limits
After the carnival
This year’s edition of Liverpool Biennial marks the end of contemporary art’s authority over contemporary life
Cultural institutions are offering kindergarten radicalism
Feel-good clichés are being embraced as revolutionary wisdom
Electric hallucinations
We need new and more incisive artistic critiques of technology
Which way, art world man?
The British art world needs to cringe less and dream more
Eccentric, vital, fast?
Millennials and Zoomers are struggling to establish their artistic identities
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
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James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
Graphics, games and occult entities
A retrospective of Treister’s work reveals the frictions in the artist’s motivations
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
“Fauxcest” is not a free speech issue
The government should ban this dangerous and disgusting genre