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The New York institution’s director talks about the promise of tomorrow, getting past the ‘stupor’ of the masterpiece and rethinking the art museum

At the Moody Center for the Arts, Imaging After Photography argues that the key question is no longer whether images are real, but how they are produced – and why we might still believe them


Eighty years on, exhibitions, markets and museums continue to reshape how art handles Nazi crimes and Holocaust memory, raising uneasy questions about who gets to represent trauma – and to what end?

Twenty years on, the Nintendo Wii’s gesture-based games feel less like a gimmick than a rehearsal – training a generation to perform for, and be interpreted by, machines
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Ten years after Paris, climate is at the centre of cultural programming. But can art still challenge extractive power, or has it settled for optics?
Across contemporary art, depictions of cancer are strikingly gendered: female and queer artists are praised for public candour, while male illness is more often muted or mythologised. Why, in an age of self-disclosure, does male suffering still struggle to be seen?