Skywalkers: A Love Story to Mean Girls – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
An extraordinarily edgy documentary follows a ‘roof-topper’ couple on their ‘extremely dangerous and illegal’ climbs. Plus: the Plastics are back thanks to Tina Fey
July 2023
Leading actors and artists back Labour’s push for more creativity in schools
Exclusive: Grayson Perry and Olivia Colman lead group of creative figures supporting Keir Starmer’s plan to improve “human” skills
April 2023
Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is to Me review – ghosts, dandies and seduction
Luxurious, dreamlike and made to carry the weight of race, sex and politics, the free-roaming films of Isaac Julien beguile but mystify
Isaac Julien review – lithe bodies, a lynching and a televisual paean to lust
Julien’s complex and ambitious work leaves you reeling with its richness as it touches on Aids adverts and stolen artefacts, migrant workers and 80s riots
Young Soul Rebels review – life-giving ode to diversity in silver jubilee London
The Passion of Remembrance review – absorbing fusion of black radicalism and feminism
Artist Isaac Julien: ‘I didn’t know if I’d live on until the 90s. A lot of my friends didn’t’
December 2022
2023 culture preview
The best art and design shows to visit in 2023
Queer Renaissance sculptor Donatello, Marina Abramović, David Hockney and a long-delayed mega-museum in Manchester – your art-design to-do list for the year ahead
December 2021
Life Between Islands review – a mind-altering portrait of British Caribbean life through art
Seventy years of tumultuous to-and-fro between grey Britain and the golden Caribbean, belonging and exile, power this crucial, enthralling show
November 2021
Life Between Islands review: displaying the power and passion of Caribbean-British art
Resistance and defiance and celebrations, arrivals, departures and returns: from photographs of protests to a Union Black flag, this timely show is an unmissable testament to creativity
July 2021
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Stuffed Tokyo super-rats and Isaac Julien’s abolition hero – the week in art
A vibrant survey of the Olympic capital in art and a 10-screen video devoted to anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass – all in your weekly dispatch
October 2020
From Warhol to Steve McQueen: a history of video art in 30 works
Starting with experimental film in the 60s, video art has revolutionised the art world. We celebrate the medium through its most groundbreaking pieces
July 2020
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Anish Kapoor shines in Norfolk and a load of men are dismantled – the week in art
The Photographers Gallery reopens post-lockdown with portraits of humour and humanity, masculinity is on show at the Barbican, and Grayson Perry’s pots are back in Bath
June 2020
Ranked
The greatest film scenes shot on the River Thames – ranked!
As a new David Attenborough documentary examines the waterway’s history, we rate the river’s finest movie cameos
March 2019
Isaac Julien on Frederick Douglass: 'It's an extraordinary story'
The British artist talks about his series of tableaux vivants focused on the trailblazing abolitionist who is more relevant than ever
February 2018
Isaac Julien: 'It's another watershed moment for history of queer rights'
In Sydney for the 40th Mardi Gras, the pioneering proponent of New Queer Cinema reflects on once radical ideas that have made it to the mainstream
September 2016
Power to… the art of protest
Politically engaged art is thriving again. We look at the rich history of protest art and talk to radical artists about their work
May 2014
Central Saint Martins degree show 2014 – in pictures
This year's showcase features the work of graduates in art and science, photography and fine art
January 2014
On the money: Isaac Julien's Playtime, with James Franco – video
Playtime: James Franco stars in a meditation on the power of money
