Opinion

From Stephanie Comilang’s genre-defying filmic portrait of the pearl industry to Sakiya’s satirical reimagining of the seat of US power

At The Phillips Collection, an exhibition maps the poet’s radical networks – offering both homage and a quiet indictment of the city that let his world disappear

The Cape Town-based curator was known for group and solo exhibitions centering artists from the African Diaspora

Carlo Ratti’s exhibition trades blue-sky idealism for technological pragmatism, confronting the realities of inevitable and escalating climate change

A fixture in the feminist and video art canons, the artist explored power and control in mass media

Other highlights include an intimate photobook by Coca Dai and Abdellah Taïa’s lyrical new novel

The late writer’s work embodied love, beauty and rage – qualities the US desperately needs under Trump

We revisit the artist's vast and varied practice ahead of a posthumous retrospective at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen

A look at the art historical echoes in the artist’s work, on the occasion of a major retrospective at the Barbican Art Gallery, London

The artist’s multidimensional practice disrupts conventional ideas of film and how it’s exhibited, redefining the medium's boundaries

The artist reimagines the Divine Comedy through an anti-colonial lens in three exhibitions across Lehmann Maupin’s galleries

The artist’s camp, playful sculptures and performances – now at Focal Point Gallery – offer a spirited, surreal attempt to preserve the past

How the artist integrates nature into her creative process, letting her surroundings shape and co-create her canvases

The pioneering novelist and poet, who championed avant-garde practices, continues to inspire contemporary artists and writers

The adventures of Gimley Bunning, roving reporter in the art world

An exhibition at Serpentine, London, spans the artist’s five-decade career, exploring humanity’s relationship with nature with remarkable fluency

Other highlights include Fashion Neurosis, a podcast merging psychoanalysis with clothes, and the latest album from Good Sad Happy Bad

Juliet Jacques observes the pros and cons of archives, who’s represented in them and how past prejudices shaped self-documentation

An artist whose film work revels in the futile, horrifying and absurdly humorous

Celebrating the auteur’s pioneering vision, examining her profound influence on cinema, storytelling and the art of observation