Reviews

His first major survey since his death in 1994, ‘PROTEST!’ opens with added urgency in today’s political and environmental crises

The artist’s moving portraits of ‘unallocated’ auto workers in Lordstown, Ohio, on view at the Renaissance Society, celebrate the power of unions as job losses hit US manufacturing

Fragments that appear torn from boats and vessels are everywhere, as though charting a course through history and geography from one world into another

Why are we so quick to praise mass participation?

From a couture dress to a Soviet mural, the artist asks what counts as 'good' art

The cultural cost of accelerated growth in the German capital

The last exhibition planned by the artist herself carries on her strategic semiotic slips and disjunctions

Shannon Bool’s show at Kunstverein Braunschweig calls attention to the exoticising and objectifying vision of Le Corbusier

Tanaka’s retrospective at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, reveals humour and radicality in everyday things

 

With the current debate on art institutions’ reliance on private funding, the Dutch artist teaches us how to avoid becoming complicit in a company’s shady activities 

From storyboards to full-sized film sets, the artist’s show at Tim Van Laere, Antwerp, plays with cinematic techniques to make us believe in a constructed world

Radical feminist Valerie Solanas is the ambivalent guiding force in Chu’s debut book Females

A new exhibition at Tramps reveals 40 years of hidden painting

Inciting a sense of of playful menace, the ethos of the legendary art school resurfaced in forces as diverse as Terence Conran, Factory Records, and Leigh Bowery

Ruby City resembles an edifice of red Texas rock; inside, the museum is airy, white and church-like

At Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, Clark queers the historical record about a past cultural figure

At Blindspot Gallery, twin solo exhibitions use the weather to reflect on political oppression

This is an artist who delights in confronting human flaws – both other people’s and his own

The Berlin-based artist’s mid-career retrospective at Spain’s Reina Sofía is a free and self-determining triumph

A new exhibition at London’s Wellcome Collection shows us why we should advocate for and defend the importance of ‘play’ – for our mental health as well as creativity