Reviews

Christine Wunnicke’s book, The Fox and Dr. Shimamura, is a narrative of Japanese modernity spoken through divine foxes and a psychiatrist’s misfortune

Four days of screenings, performances and talks at ‘Al-Qamar, Al Qamar’ in Jordan, on the edge of the Arabian desert

The late US painter’s first European survey, at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, is a missed opportunity

At London’s Pushkin House, the Russian artist exhibits a lesson in ‘argot’ – the slang used by LGBT people in the Soviet Union

Family history, myth and geopolitics intertwine in the artist’s largest UK show to date

An exhibition at Seventeen, London, reflects upon the precarious world that the arts professional must negotiate

At Metrograph, New York, Djibril Diop Mambéty’s newly remastered Hyènes offers a darkly comic metaphor of globalization

Two exhibitions, at MoMA and David Zwirner, reveal how the impresario and his milieu defied the rationalism of 20th-century art

A retrospective of the late Iranian-American director at Berlin’s KW Institute for Contemporary Art shows society in ruin

At the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the French collective’s attack on the autonomy of art feels as prescient as it did 50 years ago

The influential documentary film festival celebrated its half century with a strong line-up of old and new talent from 58 countries

A new work by Beth Collar, commissioned by Matt’s Gallery and CGP London, pulls apart female hysteria

An exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, examines Johns’s recent paintings and how the artist’s intentions remain steadfastly encrypted

From viral slime to medieval botany, these artists are probing the margins of mainstream knowledge 

A show at Max Mayer, Düsseldorf, uses typeface to pay tribute to women artists 

In a solo exhibition at kurimanzutto, Mexico City, the artist’s hanging sculptures are, like human beings, contingent, needy and ever-changing

Concurrent exhibitions at mother’s tankstation in Dublin and London are the product of more than 40 years of patiently observing the surrounding world

At Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, the Karachi-born artist’s first solo exhibition in Russia sees Western modernisms turned against themselves

The artist depicts the archetypal women of the golden age of film – or reveals them through their absence

At Berlin’s Galerie Neu, a small triumph for nightlife anti-hero Daniel Pflumm, his first show at the gallery in 15 years