Reviews

The surreal rock opera, which opened this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is a gritty musical examining sex, power and family relations under intense glare of fame

In Awoye Timpo’s reimagining of Gunn’s play, a father and son grapple with visions of accomplishment that deny autonomy and identity

At the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Israeli-born artist’s newly commissioned, three-channel video and sound installation continues her career-long investigation into the visual language of messianic desire

A survey of the artist's work at Kunsthalle Bern celebrates Geys's desire to challenge the status quo and bring art to masses

The artist’s exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery shows how entangled and dependent our lives are upon one another

From Darrel Ellis's family photographs in New York to Pakui Hardware's medical examination room in Gateshead, here are our editors' picks 

After months of lockdown, cinemas in the UK re-open with Pedro Almodóvar’s smart, chic short 

A show at Nanjing’s Sifang Art Museum sparks a dialogue between two artists working through generational trauma

At Baltic Centre, Gateshead, the Lithuanian artist duo open their first UK institutional solo with a quasi-operating room featuring a giant mechanical doctor

At Marisa Newman Projects, the artist presents an installation exploring his first experiences of identifying the self through colour

At Almine Rech, ‘Country Western’, the artist’s first solo show in the UK, draws on the unashamed iconography surrounding fame

At Cooke Latham Gallery, the artist replicates a doctor’s surgery, using mythic creatures as a metaphor for living with polycystic ovary syndrome

At Bel Ami, Los Angeles, the artist’s paintings take a satirical look at the grisly history of American bigotry against US Asian populations

Curated by Ekow Eshun, an exhibition of work by 11 Black artists at Lisson Gallery traces colonial histories alongside collective healing practices

At Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, the Brazilian painter uses geometric abstraction as a tool for engaging with endangered ecosystems

At Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, the artist's photographs and texts put colonial histories in perspective with the rise of nationalism in Europe

At Kunsthalle Basel, the artist’s peculiar designs and polished surfaces speak to the violence against bodies 

‘Can you hear my voice?’ at Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, asks what it means to claim agency amidst sectarian conflict

At Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, a retrospective of the late artist presents photography and video works that celebrate Latinx, Lesbian and working-class communities and the curative powers of self-acceptance

At STPI, Singapore, the artist's solo exhibition wryly investigates the systems and structures of power