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What counts as queer art? New book expands the boundaries of identity and expression

Queer Art, by curators Mollie E. Barnes and Gemma Rolls-Bentley, isn’t afraid to ask questions: what queerness is, what queer art can be, and why queer art matters.

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Isaac Julien review – Gwendoline Christie meets a cyborg starfish in a pleasure-seeker’s postmodern parlour

The video artist famous for his films charged with Black queer desire unleashes a kitsch, bombastic and rather glorious meditation on human connection

The Guardian - UK

Queer cinema: 10 landmark LGBTQ+ films to stream now

From Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane to Céline Sciamma’s instantly iconic Portrait of a Lady on Fire, here are 10 of the films that have defined the history of queer cinema

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TV tonight: Jenna Coleman’s twisty thriller The Jetty

A blunt detective teams up with a podcast journalist (because: 2024). Plus, the third and final series of The Great. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Entangled Pasts, 1768 - Now at the Royal Academy review: a thoughtful reflection on art's colonial history

This complex, nuanced show reckons with the past of the Royal Academy itself

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Nan Goldin named art world’s most influential figure

Photographer and campaigner against Sackler family tops ArtReview Power 100 list

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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

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Our weekend arts and culture picks, from The Flaming Lips to Polite Society

All the best things to read, watch and listen to over the Bank Holiday weekend

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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

The Guardian - UK

Isaac Julien: What Freedom is to Me at Tate Britain review: a sensual, beautiful and marvellous survey

The British artist’s survey show needs time to be seen properly, but it’s worth every moment

Evening Standard

Young Soul Rebels review – life-giving ode to diversity in silver jubilee London

Part thriller, part drama, part comedy, Isaac Julien’s urban pastoral set in the aftermath of a homophobic murder still feels fresh, buoyant and likable

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The Passion of Remembrance review – absorbing fusion of black radicalism and feminism

Inventive hybrid uses drama and archive video montage to examine the intersections of different liberation struggles

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From Evil Dead Rise to Everything But the Girl: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether it’s the latest instalment of the splattertastic franchise or the return of some electropop greats, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

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Animals storm the library and AI snaps up a prize – the week in art

Jeremy Fry’s democratised art, Sean Scully’s country-house takeover and the Parthenon’s majestic mare – all in your weekly dispatch

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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

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