Damien Hirst and the great art market heist
Hirst is the world's richest artist and the Tate's big retrospective will mark the zenith of his power. But when his stock falls, how will an art world in thrall to big money respond?The Map and the Territory, the latest novel by the mordant French sat...
Postmodernism: from the cutting edge to the museum
Fun, bright, clever, but disposable and disturbing, postmodernism was all swagger and stance. But was this pre-digital phenomenon killed off by the internet?The Sony building stands at the corner of Madison Avenue and 56th Street in midtown Manhattan. ...
Robert Coover: a life in writing
'I didn't think of "realism" as realistic. It used modes of response to the world that had become stultified'I am floating in a world made entirely of text. Lines of white courier type stretch away to the horizon, spelling out passages from Borges...
Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist
He filled Tate Modern's Turbine Hall with sunflower seeds and campaigned against corruption. Then last month China's most provocative artist disappeared. Hari Kunzru on Ai WeiweiAs I write, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been in detention for 51 days...
Werner Herzog, the adventurous spirit
Werner Herzog's presence in his own films – including the new Cave of Forgotten Dreams – marks him out as a romantic, eager to experience what he's trying to understandFew film directors seem as directly present in their work as Werner Herzog. Not ...
VS Naipaul’s absence has cost this parliament credibility | Hari Kunzru
I had to mention the VS Naipaul Islam row in my address to the European Writers' Parliament, even though others seem to be shying away from politicsI'm writing from the first commission session of the European Writers' Parliament in Istanbul, while one...
Why I quoted from The Satanic Verses at the Jaipur Literature Festival | Hari Kunzru