The Reverse Marxism of Adam Curtis’s ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’Tom WhymanOpinion10 February 2021Why it would be better if the filmmaker aspired to be less of a historian, and more of a philosopher
Beaten Pots, Three Finger Salutes and Car Horns: The Art of Protest in MyanmarSai Htin Linn Htet and Aye Ko and Moe SattFeatures17 February 2021Three artists from Yangon describe acts of creative dissent on the streets, as hundreds of thousands defy the military coup
India’s Vanishing Children: Deepa Anappara’s ‘Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line’Fi ChurchmanBook Review23 February 2021A debut novel informed by a decade of reportage focused on the effects of poverty and religious violence on education
Art Lovers Movie Club: Charwei Tsai, ‘Hear Her Singing’ArtReviewArt Lovers Movie Club08 February 2021The songs of refugees and asylum seekers living or detained in the UK: ‘multiple voices of struggle, resistance and hope’
Painted by a madman, beloved by thieves: Munch’s ‘The Scream’ still captivatesArtReviewNews22 February 2021Painting’s ‘graffiti’ was by artist himself; detective who foiled its robbery dies
Met director defends sale of artworks to save jobsArtReviewNews19 February 2021‘The pandemic represents an existential threat to America’s museums,’ Max Hollein writes
Indianapolis Museum apologises for ‘white art’ job listing; director resigns [updated]ArtReviewNews15 February 2021The job description for the art museum’s director included a reference to maintaining a ‘white art audience’
Maria Eichhorn, conceptual prankster, to represent Germany at 2022 Venice BiennaleArtReviewNews17 February 2021The artist’s work typically raises issues concerning ownership and economics
Singapore’s The Substation: To Close or Not To Close?Adeline ChiaOpinion23 February 2021The iconic independent arts space is leaving its premises after 30 years
Art Supermarket: Exhibitions to See in ParisLouise DarblayReviews19 February 2021While museums in the French capital remain closed, commercial art galleries offer some much-needed respite
‘Why Are They Here?’ – Bangkok Art Biennale, ‘Escape Routes’, ReviewMax Crosbie-JonesReviews17 February 2021The exhibition is at its best when artworks appear to disrupt the event’s sweeping therapeutic narrative
The Art of the COVID-19 PhotoshootOliver BascianoOpinion12 February 2021One problem throughout the pandemic has been its own invisibility – enter the vaccination portrait: ‘cure as political metaphor’
Rome’s Quadriennale: An Act of Love for a Mutant WorldMariacarla MolèReviews16 February 2021Can the institution – with the 2020 edition, ‘FUORI’ – repair its past?
How Linda Nochlin Changed Art History ForeverFi ChurchmanOpinion03 February 2021Fifty years on from ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists’, assessing the legacy and limits of the feminist art historian’s pioneering essay
Can a Contemporary Art Museum Rescue an Earthquake-Ravaged City?Jamie MackayFeatures29 January 2021MAXXI’s new art museum in L’Aquila, central Italy, promises to heal a devastated region – some remain sceptical it can offer any meaningful change
‘Daydreaming Is So Important To Me’: How David Lynch Fishes For IdeasRoss SimoniniFeatures05 January 2021The filmmaker, artist, musician and, lately, YouTube star, discusses parenthood, the pandemic and painting outdoors
Henri Matisse: ‘Is Not Love the Origin of All Creation?’Henri MatisseFrom the archive09 February 2021From the ArtReview archives: the artist on looking at life with the eyes of a child
Disaster Tourism: the World According to Feral AtlasLouise DarblayFeatures12 February 2021Poetic, playful and political – the anthropology-art collective charts the Anthropocene
New Life: Books to Help You Escape Lockdown BoredomOliver BascianoBook Reviewartreview.com06 January 2021Everyday stories in the face of world-changing events kept this correspondent sane
‘I Was Raised by Witches’: Johanna Hedva on Mysticism, The Gothic and Staying NegativeRoss SimoniniFeaturesArtReview18 December 2020With one new book out and an album forthcoming, the artist, musician, writer and Wiccan talks to Ross Simonini
The Cultural Revolution of Paris’s BanlieuesLouise DarblayOpinionArtReview24 November 2020How the Kourtrajmé School is effecting deep change within France’s elitist art school system
Sex, Drugs and High Finance: What HBO’s ‘Industry’ Tells Us About MeritocracyMomtaza MehriOpinionartreview.com18 November 2020Alienation is the soundtrack to Mickey Down and Konrad Kay’s cutthroat drama about the inner lives of investment bankers
The Self-Awareness That Haunts Artist Dana Schutz’s New PaintingsTom DenmanReviewsArtReview16 November 2020The 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 2020A 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 ArtRaphaël Grisey and Bouba TouréFeaturesArtReview11 November 2020The 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 2020The art scene in Thailand’s northeast is building momentum thanks to grassroots activism and an emphasis on collectivism
Artemisia Gentileschi Is More Than a Revenge FantasyMegan NolanReviewsartreview.com20 October 2020The exhibition of the Italian Baroque artist at London’s National Gallery shows us a woman who confidently asserted her place in history
Is This the End of Contemporary Art As We Know It?Liam Gillick and J.J. CharlesworthFeaturesArtReview29 September 2020Has 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
