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Can a trio of exhibitions in New York shed light on this enigmatic figure?

It’s tempting to read Haacke’s longstanding work of institutional critique as prescient. In fact, he’s been an astute observer for long enough to know that current scrutiny of museum ethics is well overdue

The prize-winning sociologist on where measurement fails

Activism in the age of the ‘Superbug’

As ‘Countryside, The Future’ opens at the Guggenheim, Koolhaas explains the rapid shifts occurring in rural zones

In Buffalo, the artist Marlene McCarty has planted a toxic garden that draws on the area’s intertwined histories of capitalism, expropriation and utopian dreaming

A roundtable with Mexicali and Tijuana artists Mely Barragán, Pablo Castañeda, Fernando Méndez Corona and collector Alonso Elias. With a poem by artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña

The challenges faced by the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern have involved a form of firefighting that many museums outside of capital cities seem in thrall to

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on 13BC and the artists using art, science and technology to map the world

The origins of Gustave Courbet’s ‘Origin of the World’

How did the design school impact on the Antipodes?

‘Kara Walker reinvents painting and drawing’s conventions, while talking about ideas that are epic in scale and deep in blood,’ Als writes

As the artist’s largest survey to date opens at Zeitz MoCAA and Norval Foundation, Cape Town, Sean O’Toole examines his dadaist lexicon 

‘People younger than myself will be under the false impression that performance has always been taken seriously’

Karen Archey on Ligia Lewis and Alex Baczynski-Jenkins

Performed images in contemporary art and everyday life

Fabian Schöneich on the artist’s new performance at Kunsthalle Basel

Mimi Chu on Robertas Narkus, Nástio Mosquito, Nora Turato and more

From blues to jazz to the baroque – new fiction from Claire-Louise Bennett

Johnston showed how writing was performance and politics at once