Reviews

A new exhibition looks back at the artists who resisted poisonous cultural narratives of the ’80s and ’90s with care, humour and style

The most urgent works at this year’s 70th Berlinale Film Festival are about coming to terms with culture’s inherited mythologies

At Królikarnia, Warsaw, the artist imagines a world in which unique natural, cultural and recreational resources are protected instead of endangered

For her latest show at Kerlin Gallery, the artist incites a state of half-recognition reminiscent of Alzheimer’s 

At MASP and SESC Avenida Paulista, the artist’s survey asks who ‘belongs’ and who controls the national narrative

At David Zwirner, New York, the late painter’s work speaks frankly to a black audience without distracting appeals to white art audiences

The artist’s solo exhibition at GAO Gallery, London, is brash, demented and necessary

At Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, the artist’s painted grids speak to how memories are always mediated and wrought

At Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, a world of quiet empathy is set against modernity, instantaneity and the desecration of wild Brazil

Premiering in the US and UK this month, Céline Sciamma’s lesbian period drama employs the myth of Orpheus to re-centre the female gaze

For her exhibition at Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, the artist reassembled disused advertising signs into abstract sculptures

At Chapter, New York, collages on canvas and ceramic fuse references to Jewish mysticism and the history of craft

Learning to survive a jittering feed of survivalist pro tips and transhumanist dreck

At Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, the artist’s paintings of the Sonoran desert span millennia of cultural references

The movement wasn’t all hard outlines, puns and absurdism as a show in London reveals

Showing new commissions produced over a two-year period, ‘Modes of Encounter’ is an attempt to reset the relationship between artists, institutions and publics – that doesn’t quite come off

At Artists Space, New York, the 'public secret society' expands its ranks 

At Gladstone Gallery, New York, the colourful lives of gay icons comprise a cultural self-portrait

The artist’s exhibition at PSM Gallery, Berlin, reflects on the relationship between body and mind

Moments of thrilling prose are not enough to stop ‘Strange Hotel’ from feeling laboured