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Artist Run: Peeking Into The Arrow Factory

An interview with Wei Wang and Rania Ho about their tiny store-front gallery space in the heart of Beijing's labyrinth of narrow alleys and walkways

Kafka For President: 80 Years of The Trial

On the 80th anniversary of its first English translation, Brian Coney examines the parallels between Kafka’s essential work of philosophical fiction and the continued rise of global despotism. (Photograph by David Fenton)

Silvia Kastel

Bibula Harena

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Feed The Rats

Omar Rodríguez-López

Ipecac 7 – 12

Jeremy Allen On Mick Harvey’s Intoxicated Women

In the fourth (and supposedly final) instalment of Mick Harvey's Serge Gainsbourg albums, Jeremy Allen finds a fitting culmination to an unprecedented 22 years of dedication to the deceased French icon – not just a satisfying end, but a promising jumping off point, too

‘Snake Hits: Frank Carter’s Favourite Albums

Frank Carter of Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes is one of the nicest men in all rock - here he sits down with Patrick Clarke to discuss the music that has shaped his life

A Cut Above: Linder Sterling On Art & Ludus

Richard Foster conducts an extensive interview on collage, carpets, punk, feminism, ballet and the insidiousness of The Great British Bake Off, with Linder Sterling: the groundbreaking multidisciplinary artist and founder member of legendary post-punks, Ludus. ****Some of the imagery in this article may be considered NSFW****

Hip To Be²: Talking To Hull’s Electronica Collective SquareWaves

Since 2014, Hull’s SquareWaves collective have been producing some of the city’s most exciting electronic music. This spring, they join Surgeon, Kiran Sande, and Factory Floor’ Nik Void to laud the legacy of Coum Transmissions at Hull’s City of Culture celebrations

Free Salamander Exhibit

Undestroyed

Sherlock And The Adventure Of The Declining Standards

Season Four of Sherlock is a relentless fan disservice that holds its audience in contempt, says John Tatlock. WARNING: enormous spoilers throughout

The Sine That Celebrates Itself: On Electronic Shoegaze

Ben Cardew revisits the fertile but short-lived shoegaze/electronic music crossover that gave us Seefeel and (eventually) M83 and Ulrich Schnauss

Remembering Mark Fisher By David Stubbs

David Stubbs looks back over the life of theorist Mark Fisher. And below that, for those wanting to know more about Mark's work, we have a previously unpublished interview between him and Agata Pyzik conducted in 2010

Collapsed Horizon: Philip K Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, 40 Years On

In the fortieth anniversary year of Philip K Dick's fortieth novel, Eli Lee finds a prescient and poignant work of grief, less concerned with sci-fi predictions of the future than with exorcising the ghosts of the past and confronting the quiet horror of addiction in the present

Between The Human And The Animal: Gee Vaucher At Firstsite

Rebecca Binns reviews Gee Vaucher's exhibition, Introspective, at Firstsite, Colchester

A Crisis Of Faith: Robert Bright On Martin Scorsese’s Silence

Robert Bright takes an in-depth look at Scorsese's latest, Silence, examining its historical context as well as previous attempts to dramatise the suppresion of 17th century Japanese Christianity

Flesh Under Coercion: An Interview With Roger Hiorns

With a new show of his work on display at Birmingham's Ikon Gallery, Cathy Wade talks to artist Roger Hiorns about growing up in Birmingham and burying an aeroplane

Flaming Lips

Oczy Mlody

An Oral History Of Arthur Russell’s Tower of Meaning

Musicians from New York’s downtown scene remember their time with Russell ahead of the UK premiere of his 1983 orchestral masterpiece Tower of Meaning. Words by Emily Moore

Luke Turner On The xx’s I See You

In The xx's third full-length effort, Luke Turner finds an album seemingly more geared toward the televisions syncs that catapulted their once affecting minimalism to ubiquity – a record more about treading old ground with heavy boots than the light touch their debut promised

Fourth Nation: Rabih Beaini At Novas Frequencias

After a week at Novas Frequencias festival in Rio, Tara Joshi considers cultural intersections and Lebanese artist Rabih Beaini

An Order Of Crisis: J.G. Biberkopf Interviewed

Taking in science fiction and science fact, Karl Smith speaks to the Lithuanian producer, one of SHAPE Platform's selected artists for 2017, about false distinctions between the digital and natural words and the cyclical homogenisation of art

Radian

On Dark Silent Off

Lifting A Veil: Kurt Wagner Of Lambchop’s Favourite British LPs

Reflecting at length upon his intimate relationship with British music from his office in Nashville, Tennessee, the alt-country veteran at the heart of Lambchop discusses freedom, interpretation and the lasting effect on him of 1970s Sheffield with Luke Cartledge

Robocobra Quartet

Music For All Occasions

Richard H. Kirk / Sandoz

#7489 / #9294

Space Is The Place: An Interview With Yui Onodera

Yui Onodera’s music has the power to transform your listening space using insights the Tokyo-based composer gained from studying architectural design. With new pieces featured on the latest instalment in Kompakt’s Pop Ambient series, we discuss acoustics, ambient music and audio technology

40 Years On: David Bowie’s Low Revisited

Low - how deep can you go? asks William Doyle of one of Bowie's most revered albums as it turns 40

David Bowie: Fantastic Voyages From Beyond The Hits

You could release countless Bowie anthologies and never quite capture how special the Thin White Duke really is. Here, Chris Roberts, Nix Lowery, Joe Stannard, Frances Morgan, Petra Davis, Wyndham Wallace and John Doran reveal their favourite Bowie tunes which weren't smash-hit singles

Sex Swing

Sex Swing

Mark Fisher On Kubrick, Tarkovsky & Nolan: An Extract From The Weird And The Eerie

Read an extract from Mark Fisher's new book The Weird And The Eerie, where he gets to grips with 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Stalker, Solaris and Interstellar

Cast Off Thy Smartphone & Be Healed: Debunking The Digital Detox

It's that time of year when all sorts of snake oil salespeople fill our lives with guilt and shame with diet plans, dry January and, most recently, the idea of a digital detox. David Bennun stares gleefully into a glowing screen to tell them what for