Profiles

A distinctively American artist who, along with four neighbourhood contemporaries, changed the course of US painting forever

The novelist explored Jewish identity in the US through a lens of frustrated heterosexuality

The US writer, who died last week, brought a quality of inestimable importance to the modern novel: a mind that was wholly in tune with the times

A mix of unashamed nudes and demure portraits, Zhao Gang's paintings take in 21st-century China with feigned crudeness and humour 

Poul Erik Tøjner pays tribute to Denmark’s most important artist since Asger Jorn

Toyin Ojih Odutola’s portraits of a fictional aristocratic Nigerian family push toward an expanded definition of the ‘black experience’

Three shows in Ireland celebrate the legendary polymath, artist and author of Inside the White Cube

Significant Egyptian modernist Hamed Abdalla’s first UK show at The Mosaic Rooms, ‘an Arab intelligence operation, hiding in plain sight’

Remembering the photographer’s invaluable contribution to the history of queer aesthetics

On the Spanish artist’s magmatic morphologies, currently on view at Haus der Kunst, Munich, and Matadero, Madrid

From installation to innuendo, at Brisbane’s Griffith University Art Museum the Australian artist mines the inbetweenness of identity and language

From Grave of the Fireflies to The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, the visionary director grounded fantasy with emotional force

Fan’s work manipulates the archetype and architecture of the body as we understand it

A recent show at London’s Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, coinciding with a new catalogue raisonné, shows the artist mapping space from outside and within

Now out from Rizzoli, a new book collects the collages of the recently-deceased poet and erstwhile art critic

Ahead of a survey opening at MCA Chicago, the Nigerian artist mines and represents narratives of place, from Antwerp to Lagos

A rare, newly-published interview with the late October editor, reveals an art critic intent on changing the terms of the debate

How dis.art blurs the lines between education, entertainment and commerce

From creation myths to gender politics, artist Melanie Jackson and academic Esther Leslie investigate that most indispensable of substances

With her show opening at Kunstraum in London tonight, the artist's choreographed performances capture bodies in flux