Isaac Julien

Leading actors and artists back Labour’s push for more creativity in schools

Exclusive: Grayson Perry and Olivia Colman lead group of creative figures supporting Keir Starmer’s plan to improve “human” skills

Peter Walker Deputy political editor

06, Jul, 2023 @5:21 PM

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

Laura Cumming

30, Apr, 2023 @12:00 PM

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

Adrian Searle

26, Apr, 2023 @3:24 PM

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

Peter Bradshaw

26, Apr, 2023 @6:00 AM

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

Peter Bradshaw

25, Apr, 2023 @6:00 AM

Artist Isaac Julien: ‘I didn’t know if I’d live on until the 90s. A lot of my friends didn’t’

He rose to fame in the Thatcher era with his lyrical films about race, sex and politics. As he stages a major retrospective, the artist talks about Aids, migration, and Black Tory MPs

Paul Mendez

24, Apr, 2023 @3:00 PM

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

Adrian Searle, Jonathan Jones and Oliver Wainwright

27, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM

Life Between Islands review – a mind-altering portrait of British Caribbean life through art

Seventy years of tumultuous to-and-fro between grey Britain and the golden Caribbean, belonging and exile, power this crucial, enthralling show

Laura Cumming

05, Dec, 2021 @1:00 PM

Life Between Islands review: displaying the power and passion of Caribbean-British art

Resistance and defiance and celebrations, arrivals, departures and returns: from photographs of protests to a Union Black flag, this timely show is an unmissable testament to creativity

Adrian Searle

29, Nov, 2021 @6:38 PM

Stuffed Tokyo super-rats and Isaac Julien’s abolition hero – the week in art

A vibrant survey of the Olympic capital in art and a 10-screen video devoted to anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass – all in your weekly dispatch

Jonathan Jones

30, Jul, 2021 @12:22 PM

From Warhol to Steve McQueen: a history of video art in 30 works

Starting with experimental film in the 60s, video art has revolutionised the art world. We celebrate the medium through its most groundbreaking pieces

Barbara London, Skye Sherwin & Oliver Basciano

17, Oct, 2020 @7:00 AM

Anish Kapoor shines in Norfolk and a load of men are dismantled – the week in art

The Photographers Gallery reopens post-lockdown with portraits of humour and humanity, masculinity is on show at the Barbican, and Grayson Perry’s pots are back in Bath

Jonathan Jones

10, Jul, 2020 @2:54 PM