With his first German solo show at Blain|Southern Berlin open until 17 November, the New York-based artist discusses using drawings to make sense of his intense childhood in Iran and sound being a guiding force 

With three concurrent shows opening in Hong Kong, London and Zurich, the Beijing-based painter talks about his dichotomous practice, taking in Eastern and Western influences and moving from portraiture to abstraction and back again

What do curators look for in an art space? Architect Jamie Fobert, responsible for the award-winning Tate St Ives extension and the reconfiguration of Kettle’s Yard Cambridge, explains what it takes to design an art gallery

The Japanese artist talks about how he came to join the Gutai Art Association in 1963, moved to Paris in 1966 and how vinyl adhesive glue and graphite have sustained a practice ‘streaming into infinity’

With a new show opening at Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, the artist discusses death, drapery and intimacy in her work

Curator Diana Campbell Betancourt introduces the Live artist projects coming to Frieze London 2018

For the sixth and final film in the Design Matters series with Bang & Olufsen, Berlin-based musician Laurel Halo talks about drawing inspiration from different musical lineages, reacting to the materiality of Berlin and using texture as a challenge

With a new show opening at Simon Lee Gallery, London, the Los Angeles-based artist talks walking the razor-thin line between poetry and cultural politics

Andrew Durbin talks to the filmmaker and artist about his art practice, from Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts up to the present

For our ‘Altered States’ issue, a specially-commissioned video, Fourth State, featuring filmmaker and artist David Lynch

As Varejão’s ‘Saunas and Baths’ paintings and ‘Meat Ruins’ sculptures go on show at Victoria Miro, Venice, the Brazilian artist on her work’s layers of meaning

A journey with three stars of Italo disco as they reconnect with forgotten fantasies exploring what the genre might have been