This year’s Turner Prize nominees are all doing valuable work – but why compare them?
The shortlisted collectives are more interested in what takes place outside the museum – so considering them for an art prize seems besides the point
The Apollo 40 Under 40 Art & Tech in focus: Joey Holder
The artist talks to Robert Barry about her ongoing exploration of the deep sea – and explains why her work is more utopian than it seems
From the ridiculous to the sublime – Bruce Nauman at Tate Modern, reviewed
This career-spanning survey presents an artist whose work consistently teeters between the absurd and the poetic
Sounds of silence – an interview with Oliver Beer
Oliver Beer’s sound installations reveal a music that was already quietly present
Photo realism – an interview with Alfredo Jaar
The Chilean-born artist talks about his ambivalent attitude towards photography and his utopian feelings about art
Dragging out the HDMI cable – how to watch video art at home
Moving-image work seems particularly suited to our increasingly online existences
Benedict Drew’s new film gives form to the anxiety of modern life
Currently on view at the Science Gallery London, The Bad Feel Loops is a nervous, nerve-wracking piece of work
A haunting resurrection of the man who invented jazz
New Orleans bandleader Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden cuts an enigmatic figure in John Akomfrah’s elegiac film
Yuko Mohri unwinds at Camden Arts Centre
The artist’s new sound installation involving solenoids, sensors and tropical fish is surprisingly decorative
‘A visceral assault on the senses’
Bridget Riley’s monumental abstract paintings are as mysterious as they are mesmerising
Is sound art getting a fair hearing in museums?
Sound art often seems like video art’s poor relation in museums, but is its struggle for status starting to pay off?
Terry Adkins and the art of sound
The artist’s haunting sound sculptures and paintings address the absent figures who inspired them
The tender brutishness of Antoni Tàpies
The Catalan artist’s large, earthy paintings at Timothy Taylor have unexpectedly intimate and spiritual concerns
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