The Japanese artist’s symphony of decomposing matter and broken things offers a poetic reflection on the disjointed state of modern life

SoundCloud’s recently announced acquisition of NFT music platform Nina Protocol sounds the death knell for the illusion of tech’s utopianism in the arts

At its best, the latest edition encapsulates a humanistic focus – on art in service to the community that surrounds it

The Nobel Laureate’s recent comments on her use of AI in ‘preliminary research’ have hit a nerve – and rightly so

For episode six of the ArtReview Podcast, artist Hyeree Ro speaks to ArtReview associate editor Jenny Wu

To find out where we might go from here, ArtReview asked several professionals close to institutions for a diagnosis

A new show packages final farewells into mass entertainment. Is death just the latest data point in our relentless attention economy?

Turner Prize-winning artist Nnena Kalu makes her work in a supported studio. What kind of artworld might emerge from such setups?

Unpacking some of the geopolitical stakes at play this year

The year in film: 2025 was the year of the social-politics drama. Did any of them have much to say?

The year in religion: What, in 2025, was contemporary art’s relationship to a world of changing – and radicalising – spiritual cultures?

The Year in Mental Health: From the datafication of therapy to the ‘crisis’ of overdiagnosis, it seemed everyone in 2025 was doing just fine

The Hay festival president is asking readers for book recommendations that will ‘entice the most reluctant reader’ to help combat the decline in leisure reading

Heritage in Lebanon is not just about aesthetics; it is about truth

Tidewater, Virgina-born artist and 'proud stutterer' returns with an album built on backwards violins, granular synthesis, fluttering sax and quiet transcendence

‘Girls, I thought, understand / The attitudes of animals in motion. / Girls could reveal the nature of happy horses’

The US government’s anniversary AI project tells us nothing about American history and everything about today’s America

The state of art criticism today resembles a crisis of freedom, when one reality has been rejected but another has yet to be conceived

You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit

Age verification and data collection require there be no slippage between who governments think we are and who we want ourselves to be – which was the whole point of the internet in the first place

A new group show and study programme at Berlin’s Spore Initiative reconnects the Palestinian story to the land: how it is experienced, remembered, worked, violated

In his latest film ‘The Shrouds’, characters can livestream their loved ones rotting in the grave. Is this a new monumentalism?

Featuring Shilpa Gupta, Shimabuku, Bachtiar Siagian; commentary on China’s zombie museums, and legacies of the Black Panther Movement; and much more

Defining ‘woman’ by biological female sex isn’t just about excluding trans people from single-sex spaces. It also highlights how little respect governing bodies have for the trans community as a whole

Across largescale tapestries and adroit conceptual works, the artist examines the destructive forces in the world

Across largescale tapestries and adroit conceptual works, the artist examines the destructive forces in the world

An expert film director, frustrated by the creative restriction and cultural shallowness of Hollywood’s so-called golden age, returns with his loyal

The island faces a challenge of visibility, with barriers imposed by imperial neglect, poor urban infrastructure and a lack of local arts journalism. But discoverability and visibility can come at a c...

The gallery’s much heralded rehang avoids burdening the art of the past with the politics of today as it reconsiders what the modern visitor really wants

Baggy terms such as ‘Global South’ and ‘Global Majority’ are useless, because you can’t address what you can’t describe

Celebrity authors are rebranding themselves as philosophers of art; an extraordinary dumbing down of culture has occurred

‘which of us / is in servitude’s work? 0)))0(((0 / which takes the bird’s eye?(*))))’

At St. Chads, London, the artist has installed a smelly, sticky clump of live yeast culture in the gallery. It’s the beginnings of a lesson about art, life and the creatures we create

The philosopher’s reflections on his own privileged experience of the COVID-19 pandemic range from the bizarre to the frankly obscene

The tenor of current cultural and critical exchanges among South Asian and Gulf countries points to the contortions required of those who would correct art history

Editorial: A groundbreaking vote by outgoing MPs has given the chancellor-elect, Friedrich Merz, the chance to renew mainstream politics

As online access to information becomes increasingly restricted, even the noblest feats of preservation and archiving are being hijacked