Reviews

Abidi’s comic, deflationary videos undercut the pomp of state politics

‘Queer Spaces’ at Whitechapel Gallery documents the disappearance of many of London’s LGBTQ+ venues

Wesselmann’s sculpture attempted ‘to pick up a drawing by its lines and carry it’ into the world

At Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Simon’s art is a prescient critique of art-making itself

The influence of op art leaves scant trace of the artist’s hand, but otherworldly unease pervades his repetitions and reflections

The Belgrade-born sculptor developed a language that acknowledged a world in flux

In Rezaire’s work, prehistoric West African landmarks stand for enigmas of the past and future

Considering our scripted future at Helsinki Contemporary 

The most complex question the director asks is why not just beat up the bad guys

Amid widespread civil unrest, a timely show at Para Site speculates on the future of labour and politics in our technological age

At the Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College, ‘Where the Oceans Meet’ looks at the ‘creolizing’ of cultural influences across continents through the lens of Édouard Glissant and Lydia Cabrera

The artists in ‘Time Forward!’ at the V-A-C Foundation in Venice speculate on what the future might bring

At SFER IK in Tulum, Mexico, Mayan architecture and site-specific exhibitions propose a ‘return’ to nature

A show at Gagosian, London, pairs the pop master with the early twentieth-century eccentric, beloved of Duchamp

The late artist rejected state censorship while presaging our image-saturated age

Shamefully, the artist was not awarded a solo show in the art-world capital until six years after his death

At HB Station in Guangzhou, the artist offers a shattered version of domestic bliss

A new show asks what it means to be radical in our age of spectacle

A new series of workshops in Manchester humanizes the faceless immigrants the public are so often taught to fear

Season 2 of Ryan Murphy’s campy television series mixes magical realism and conventional melodrama to radical effect