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The New York institution's director talks about the promise of tomorrow, getting past the ‘stupor’ of the masterpiece and rethinking the art museum


Eighty years on, exhibitions, markets and museums continue to reshape how art handles Nazi crimes and Holocaust memory, raising uneasy questions about who gets to represent trauma – and to what end?

Twenty years on, the Nintendo Wii’s gesture-based games feel less like a gimmick than a rehearsal – training a generation to perform for, and be interpreted by, machines

Across contemporary art, depictions of cancer are strikingly gendered: female and queer artists are praised for public candour, while male illness is more often muted or mythologised. Why, in an age of self-disclosure, does male suffering still struggle to be seen?
Television once controlled what viewers watched and when. As screens multiply, artists are revisiting its influence