Reviews

Curator Brook Andrew’s proposal that creativity is an important means of truth-telling is a bolt of much-needed optimism

The artist’s exhibition at Mies van der Rohe’s Haus Esters in Krefeld explores architecture’s aim for social reform

The artist’s installation at Barbara Wien, Berlin, leaves things pleasingly open to interpretation

‘Have You Seen a Horizon Lately?’ feels like a hauntingly apposite question for these dark times

A workshop at a primary school in east London provides an antidote to the seriousness of art criticism 

Pinacoteca de São Paulo presents a number of public-facing projects that correct the record about the famously reclusive artist 

In the time of COVID-19, the artist's pulmonary pangs at ChertLüdde, Berlin, feel uncomfortably prescient

At the DeYoung, San Francisco, ‘Uncanny Valley’ deftly examines the consequences of our capitulation to AI

At Accelerator, Stockholm, Johanna Gustafsson Fürst reflects on the systematic repression of indigenous languages in her home country

At Adams and Ollman, Portland, the artist’s recent paintings depict scenes now impossible in quarantine 

Despite being full of great work, this show is at once too broad in its remit and too narrow in its execution

At Spelman College, the artist’s selection of images from the Johnson Publishing Company celebrates ‘a house that black entrepreneurship built’ 

Saturated with marketing sleights of hand and anti-capitalist theory, her work isn’t to blame, any more than I am for reproducing the same rhetoric here

In the face of creeping far-right thinking, an exhibition in Munich underscores the role contemporary art can play in ensuring historic atrocities are never forgotten

Can Reiner Holzemer’s documentary finally lift the lid on the famously private designer? 

The artist presents a range of paintings and sculptures at The Contemporary Austin that problematize grand historical narratives 

In 1969, sculpture students were kept in isolation and prohibited from keeping whatever they made – an approach contested at the time and inconceivable now

The artist’s cardboard interventions remind us that the modernist Heide Museum, Melbourne, was once a home – where people lived and touched

The artist’s new immersive installation at Centre Pompidou explores ecstatic states as a means of reconnecting with human empathy

‘Death in Her Hands’ toys with the conventions of crime fiction in ways that are often heavy-handed