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In the decades since the explosion of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the disaster has become a cultural touchstone

Brazil's Venice Biennale show interrogates the myth of ‘racial democracy’ in South America’s largest nation, taking its title from a symbolic plant known for its beauty, toxicity and protective powers. 

Will the shifting culture of commercial patronage in the arts cause the 61st Venice Biennale to look materially different?

The Birmingham-born artist’s retrospective at Tate Britain confirms his place as one of Britain’s leading – and most expensive – painters

Gagosian’s Joshua Chuang marks the moment Penn’s photography turned from reproduction to object

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

At the Moody Center for the Arts, Imaging After Photography argues that the key question is no longer whether images are real, but how they are produced – and why we might still believe them

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?

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

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

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?