Dan Rees reflects on issues raised by Sung Tieu’s work for the German Pavilion in Venice; Bob Dickinson argues that it might be time for us to adopt the newly coined term ‘hydrocene’ to describe our age.

Mark Prince argues that sculptures once-default position as a surrogate for presence has been challenged.

Sarah E James explains why political action always falls to individual artists, Matthew Bowman discusses Lucia Pizzani’s exhibition at Focal Point Gallery.

Dave Beech argues that the still life should be re-examined in the light of wider political, social and cultural contexts to understand what he calls ‘still lifescapes’. Hosted by Matt Hale.

Tom Denman considers the work of Leah Clements, including her coming exhibition at Peer in London, and Bob Dickinson discusses his feature ‘Art and Contested Memory’, which warns of the need to preserve collective memory against attempts by the far-right regimes to erase it.

Mark prince argues that in our social media saturated culture, to photograph or film something is becoming a substitute for that same experience.

Chris Clarke on Austria’s steirischer herbst festival; Tosia Leniarska reports from the Survival Kit festival in Latvia; Virginia Whiles discusses the pairing of Mona Hatoum and Alberto Giacometti’s work at the Barbican.

Lillian Wilkie reports on the art scene in Barnsley; Dave Beech explains the lack of discourse around working-class culture in the art world.

Morgan Falconer asks whether contemporary art is in decline and, if so, why; Tom Denman wonders why there is deafening silence in the art world as the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki looms.

Morgan Quaintance analyses the absence of discussion of working-class lives in the arts, and the cultural influence of the middle class in how such lives are understood.