Reviews

At the Whitney Museum, an ambitious survey shows the transformative effects of Mexican muralism on the US avant-garde 

The artist’s installation – based on the interior of a nearby gay cruising bar – invokes a haunted sense of refuge

At the Norval Foundation, Cape Town, the artist’s recent paintings refer to the contentious 2017 re-election of Uhuru Kenyatta 

The artist’s exhibition at Centre d’art contemporain Passerelle, Brest, blends gender, race and class politics with science fiction

At Museo Jumex, Mexico City, a retrospective of the pioneering architect’s key projects shows how she worked to tear down class and racial barriers in Brazilian society

In Prajakta Potnis’s show at Project 88, Mumbai, her uncle’s illness eerily presages the Covid-19 emergency

Through her spatial interventions at Établissement d’en face, Brussels, the artist reflects on the layering between art and politics 

The new HBO series imagines a celebrity, Nazi-sympathizing president and election fraud in the 1940s 

An exhibition at Jan Kaps, Cologne, stresses the trauma of economic transformations in formerly socialist countries

The artist’s photographs of domestic spaces, souks and bodegas, displayed on 100 bus stops around New York and at Helena Anrather, are ‘altogether unworldly’ 

Global pandemic may have altered our sense of time but, in the Chinese artist’s work, the present is an illusion anyway

Translations of Proust’s Sodom and Gomorrah and Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel come together and fall apart in the artist’s latest show

In an exhibition at Kunstverein München, Hill’s work from the 1960s appears prescient in its exploration of female office labour

At Marlborough, New York, the Puerto Rico-based artist builds a new pantheon from the wreckage of colonialism and Hurricane Maria 

In an exhibition organized by Studio Voltaire, the artist’s work grows at a pace with which galleries today are often unfamiliar

At Tabakalera, San Sebastián, 24 artists reflect on the algorithms that rule the world

In her first institutional exhibition at Kunsthall Trondheim, the artist combines scientific research with fictional elements to create puzzling audio-visual narratives

Within the chaos murmurs an incoherent hope in this ambitious – and at times baffling – exhibition

An exhibition at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, explores writing’s role in embodiment and spiritual grounding

At Lévy Gorvy, New York, the painter reinscribes the female gaze into art history