The Art Journal

Gibellina and the Limits of Art-Led Regeneration

Rebuilt by artists after the 1968 earthquake, Sicily's Gibellina is once again betting its future on culture. A new state-backed art capital programme asks whether funding and programming can succeed where politics failed.

Stephanie Gavan

After Nuremberg

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?

Hili Perlson

The Wii Effect: How Gaming Rewired the Art of Performance

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

Christopher Webb

Television as Medium: How a Century of Broadcasting Reshaped Art

Television once controlled what viewers watched and when. As screens multiply, artists are revisiting its influence

Phin Jennings

Climate Culture and the Politics of Caution

Ten years after Paris, climate is at the centre of cultural programming. But can art still challenge extractive power, or has it settled for optics?

Joe Ware