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In their latest work, the Chengdu-born Minnesota-based artist embraces the unknown

‘Daydreaming Is So Important To Me’: How David Lynch Fishes For Ideas

Ross SimoniniFeatures05 January 2021

The filmmaker, artist, musician and, lately, YouTube star, discusses parenthood, the pandemic and painting outdoors

Keeping Up With the Kids: a New Year’s Resolution for Art Critics

Martin HerbertOpinion08 January 2021

Art is an evolving language: one that, if you’re not careful, you can unlearn as well as learn

Art Lovers Movie Club: Shen Xin, ‘Provocation of a Nightingale #1’

ArtReviewFeatures15 January 2021

In the artist’s film, a conversation between a young woman and her meditation teacher reveals a devastating personal history

Paintings on a plate: Uffizi Galleries creates cooking show inspired by art

ArtReviewNews18 January 2021

The new initiative will be streamed on Facebook

K-pop star RM of BTS named ‘art sponsor of the year’

ArtReviewNews18 January 2021

The rapper has been recognised for his ‘art patronage’

Guggenheim turns to Naomi Beckwith to fill chief curator role

Oliver BascianoNews18 January 2021

The New York institution was on the search following Nancy Spector’s resignation

Orange County Museum appoints Heidi Zuckerman as new director and CEO

ArtReviewNews14 January 2021

Zuckerman joins from Aspen Art Museum to helm the institution’s expansion

Cosplay Coup: What the MAGA Selfies Reveal

Lewis GordonOpinion08 January 2021

As absurd as they look, the images from the US Capitol are destined to be venerated in the most disaffected corners of the internet for decades to come

‘I Can’t Breathe’: A Year of Unrest in America Through the Lens of Joshua Rashaad McFadden

Joshua Rashaad McFaddenFeatures31 December 2020

A portfolio of powerful photography from Joshua Rashaad McFadden documents the experiences of Black people in the US, in the face of police brutality and systemic racism

New Life: Books to Help You Escape Lockdown Boredom

Oliver BascianoBook Review06 January 2021

Everyday stories in the face of world-changing events kept this correspondent sane

Kiliii Yüyan: The Myth of Pristine Wilderness

Kiliii YüyanFeatures07 January 2021

The Nanai (Siberian Native) and Chinese-American photographer explores the relationship between humans and the natural world from different cultural perspectives

‘I Was Raised by Witches’: Johanna Hedva on Mysticism, The Gothic and Staying Negative

Ross SimoniniFeatures18 December 2020

With one new book out and an album forthcoming, the artist, musician, writer and Wiccan talks to Ross Simonini

‘Winter Comes Early’: ruangrupa Accelerates Plans to Upend documenta 15

Annie Jael KwanFeatures24 December 2020

The Indonesian collective aims to work as a double agent: a team of artistic directors for a major exhibition pursuing an activist agenda

Secrets of the VIP Party: Why the 1% Love ‘Ritualised Waste’

En Liang KhongFeatures07 January 2021

Sociologist and former fashion model Ashley Mears examines the elite global party circuit, stretching from Art Basel Miami to London Fashion Week

Contagious Horror: Why You Have to Watch Brandon Cronenberg’s ‘Possessor’

Philippa SnowOpinion10 December 2020

A bloody sci-fi fable about for-hire bodysnatchers visualises the interior struggle between host and parasite in dazzling, merciless scenes

Laura Raicovich: How Museums Can Become Spaces for Care

Oliver BascianoFeatures09 December 2020

The curator and director reflects on the myth of museum neutrality

‘We’re Shaped by Our Memories’: Claire Hsu on Two Decades of Asia Art Archive

Mark RappoltFeatures11 January 2021

Cofounder Claire Hsu steps down from her role as director, and reflects on the evolution of the Hong Kong non-profit

‘What’s All the Fuss About?’ COVID-19 Reveals All

COVID-19OpinionArtReview30 November 2020

The novel coronavirus tells us what it’s really thinking

Sex, Drugs and High Finance: What HBO’s ‘Industry’ Tells Us About Meritocracy

Momtaza MehriOpinionartreview.com18 November 2020

Alienation is the soundtrack to Mickey Down and Konrad Kay’s cutthroat drama about the inner lives of investment bankers

Manifesta 13 Marseille Review: Gut Punches and Odd Notes

Digby Warde-AldamReviewsartreview.com16 November 2020

Can the self-styled ‘nomadic art biennale’ – with its socially-engaged mission – withstand the weight of its own contradictions?

The Self-Awareness That Haunts Artist Dana Schutz’s New Paintings

Tom DenmanReviewsArtReview16 November 2020

The 2017 Whitney Biennial controversy is a presence felt behind the exhibition Shadow of a Cloud Moving Slowly at London’s Thomas Dane Gallery

Why Is Maggi Hambling’s Mary Wollstonecraft Statue So Weird?

Imogen West-KnightsOpinionartreview.com13 November 2020

A monument to one of the eighteenth century’s most prominent feminist thinkers has finally been unveiled – and it’s not gone down well

What Malian Farming Collective Somankidi Coura Tells Us About the Value of Art

Raphaël Grisey and Bouba TouréFeaturesArtReview11 November 2020

The cooperative’s history provides a model for ideas of collective working that suffuse much of the discourse surrounding artmaking today

What’s Behind Northeast Thailand’s Grassroots Art Revolution?

Max Crosbie-JonesFeaturesArtReview Asia03 November 2020

The art scene in Thailand’s northeast is building momentum thanks to grassroots activism and an emphasis on collectivism

Is This the End of Contemporary Art As We Know It?

Liam Gillick and J.J. CharlesworthFeaturesArtReview29 September 2020

Has COVID-19 accelerated the demise of the artworld? What lies ahead? Artist Liam Gillick and ArtReview’s J.J. Charlesworth assess the sudden halt in shows, fairs and biennials

The End of Creativity? What the UK’s New Immigration Regime Will Do to the Artworld

Chris SharrattOpinionartreview.com17 July 2020

‘The rest of the world is seeing the UK as a more isolationist and less open country that is at odds with the general global discourse’

Could Empty Museums Be a Good Thing?

Sam JacobOpinionartreview.com15 July 2020

The time is right for a ‘post-museum cultural space’, and the British Museum’s Parthenon gallery is the ideal place to start

Artist Sammy Baloji on Colonial Legacies, New Stories and Creating the Lubumbashi Biennale

Absent Friends

Shen Xin Explores Statelessness in East Asia