Lukács's theory of realism, let loose on contemporary television, comics and art.

How we see the world through them, and how the world sees us back.

Comic-book grammar, quietly rewiring film from the silent era to the blockbuster.

Where art stands now that everything else is also doing its job.

Saint Laurent, above all an artist of synthesis straddling fashion and art.

Thirty-five years of Chinese video art, told for the first time.

Paint as the medium that both covers and reveals our existence.

When a work exists across multiple versions and locations, where is it?

Clothes as signs and markers of gender and sexual identity, across history.

When aesthetics escapes the gallery and turns up in fashion and music video.

Reading graphic novels as literature, with Kirby as the Balzac of comics.

Fashion and food, the restaurant and the catwalk, since the Middle Ages.

When masculinity stopped being a gender and started being a style.

Five centuries of cross-traffic, the Orient wasn't only invented in the West.

Libertinism as a form of fashion, from early modernity to the present.

The new orientalism that emerges under globalisation, across art, fashion and film.

When fashion outgrew the runway and started installing itself, from Worth to Pugh.

Postwar film, TV and comics, and the heroic types they dressed.

Cosplay from sources and sites to performance and play, across global fandom.

How attitudes to fashion changed in the global, digital twenty-first century.