Oliver Basciano

They’re a hotbed of networking and flirting, but in an age of increasing digital fatigue, they also offer a space for experimentation and unmediated human connection

‘When We Sold God’s Eye’ by Alex Cuadros is an unsentimental, vital report of how ‘civilised’ society disrupts Indigenous life

‘Woisky’s sculptural zoo enacts a disconcerting interplay between reproduction and reality, mediated image and tactile object’

Uniform, merchandise, alcohol, nationalism – these are the real markers of a ritual gathering

Rude, high-handed and unashamedly intellectual. Twenty years on from her death, what would the world think of Sontag today?

“Afrofuturism has become a kind of label or a contemporary art aesthetic”

Our definitions of childhood and children’s literature are inevitably entwined

Documenta 16 is due to open in 2027

A new group show at Espaço Delirium, São Paulo follows the trip Lula Côrtes and Zé Ramalho made along the Ingá River to explore knowledge, how it can accumulate and how it can be lost

Selected by Oliver Basciano

Phaidon’s ‘Latin American Artists: From 1785’ to Now leaves much to be desired

A series of upcoming biennials promise to explore the art of the ‘Global South’. But what does that mean? And is the term of any practical use?

The artist paints his home country with a tender familiarity that undercuts the sexualised, colonial visions of life in the equatorial tropics that have often dominated art history

The exhibition, which returns for its 12th outing next year, will be curated by Khanyisile Mbongwa

Carlos Villa – subject of a retrospective at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco – accessed his diasporic identity through the intercultural solidarity between minority groups

Reaching across generations, Desire Appears Suddenly at Instituto de Visión, Bogotá deals in body politics – and body parts

Vandalism comes amid antisemitism debate

“So much of the institutional language about caring concerns the physical maintenance of objects. But when there’s some other intangible function, there is no space for this to be considered.”

From love letters to mail-order pornography – on the long history of LGBT communities finding solace in the anonymity of the postal system

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