Reviews

At the Wexner Center for the Arts, the artist draws connections between the US Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Albers’s theory of colour

At Yossi Milo gallery, New York, the artist’s manipulated photographs of Manitoba forests cut through the optimism of the hippie dream

At Prizer Arts & Letters, Austin, the artists present works that reaffirm the US experiment is ongoing

From the premiere of Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas in Berlin to Corita Kent’s political prints in Innsbruck

From a survey of national treasure Steve McQueen to the Irish premiere of Enda Bowe’s longing portraits on Belfast's ‘peace lines’, these are the year's exhibition highlights

At Kicken Berlin the artist's work explores what it meant to be a woman in the German Democratic Republic

‘Made in L.A. 2020: a version’, slated to open in 2021, exposes the horrors of American life pre-pandemic

Capturing moments of stillness and anticipation, at Workplace, London, the artist uses layers of stippled colours to conjure never-ending narratives

Exhibited in defunct phone booths along 6th Avenue, artists including Renée Green, Glenn Ligon, Patti Smith, and Rirkrit Tiravanija ask us to engage with the world around

At Gallery 1957, London, the Ghanaian artist explores Stuart Hall's theory that cultural identity 'belongs as much to the future as it does to the past'

For his first solo exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, the artist riffs on the iconographies and hierarchies of a bygone era

From a survey of Zarina’s five-decade career to Ficre Ghebreyesus’s display of ethereal paintings, these are the best exhibitions of the year

A new commission at Cell Project Space confronts questions about our complicity in the gentrification of our cities 

Informed by his Manchurian identity, the artist sets out by motorcycle for the Chinese Eastern Railway to explore the Northeast province's fading heritage

Diverging from filmic poetry, at Magenta Plains, New York, the artist presents a new body of work without his usual smattering of textual imagery

Two concurrent shows at the Bronx Museum and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, track the artist’s career and ‘chopped-and-screwed’ process of reimagining art history

At Karma, New York, the artist presents a new body of work that goes beyond the ‘gestural abstraction’ for which she is best known

At White Columns, the artist presents a series of neon works that highlight ‘critical moments in US history’ from 1526 to 2019

At the Mosaic Rooms in London, Heba Y. Amin traces colonial footprints in the Arab world through communication technologies 

At Auto Italia, London, a film by Invernomuto and Jim C. Nedd traces the history of Afro-Colombian sound systems