Sukhdev Sandhu directs the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture at New York University. His books include ‘Other Musics’ (MoMA PS1), ‘Night Haunts’ (Verso) and 'London Calling’ (Harper Collins). He also runs the Text und Töne imprint.

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Mane attraction – the star quality of Susan Sontag

For all her flaws – and love of the limelight – Sontag’s commitment to seriousness feels more necessary than ever

4 Dec 2019
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Arthur Rimbaud in New York, 1978–79, courtesy the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York

David Wojnarowicz’s art is as urgent now as it was in the 1980s

The playful, elegaic and militant qualities of the artist’s work make a powerful impression at the Whitney

17 Sep 2018
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Portrait of John Berger by his longstanding collaborator, the Swiss photographer Jean Mohr. © Jean Mohr

John Berger: a pathfinder who was alive to the present

It was Berger’s ability to listen that made him such an important storyteller

25 Jan 2017
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It’s the loneliness of Diane Arbus’s images that make them so discomforting today

An exhibition of Diane Arbus’s early work presents curiosities without cabinets

26 Oct 2016

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Art museums that consider themselves places of reflection should be thinking harder about what they are for and what needs to change

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