Reviews

At Converso, Milan, the artist transforms a baroque church into a playground for sculptural interventions

A recent exhibition at Jenny’s from one of Los Angeles’s most elusive artists

With rapid cuts, spatial leaps and sudden bursts of sound, two films at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, create a maze-like experience

The artist’s recent retrospective at Kunsthalle Bern wittily reflects on the circumvention of originality

Nicole Gravier’s ‘fotoromanzi’ at Ermes-Ermes, Vienna, create an escapist melodrama that stresses the dependence of capitalism on unpaid housework by women

At the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, Steir synthesizes two dominant modes of American painting: abstract expressionism and minimalism

Iqra Tanveer’s quiet show at Grey Noise, Dubai, is full of puzzles and meditations

A public installation in London’s Bermondsey suggests that the linguistic landscape is deteriorating along with the ecological one

At LABOR, the artist has captured airborne contaminants on 52 canvases, damning evidence of the capital’s unsafe conditions

At Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, the artist highlights the ways in which Kurdish culture is expressed at the intersection of myth and reality

From bratwurst sculptures to Prussian monuments, at Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, the artist looks at the construction of German identity 

40 years on, the fight for reproductive rights, and against sexual violence, has never been more pressing

At Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, five decades of the artist’s immersive work speak to the brutality and sensuality of American life

An exhibition at London’s National Gallery shows a rebellious painter’s ambivalent relationship with the Western canon

The video artist Li Ran’s return to painting, at Shanghai’s Aike gallery, is suffused by a sense of cinema

At David Lewis, the artist repurposes ephemeral Americana to remark on the disintegration of 1960s countercultural dreams and ideals

With ‘Cantiere’, the sculptor shows himself to be one of Italy’s best kept secrets

All attention is an act of devotion, and patience is the pleasure of this touring exhibition of contemporary paintings 

In the artist’s first museum survey at the Vancouver Art Gallery, appropriated advertising imagery exposes the hermetic loops of capitalism

Majoli’s historical subjects couldn’t have known that the community for which they became sex symbols would soon be marked with a valedictory contingency – annihilation