UK Reviews

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

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

At Cob Gallery, London, the artist takes the seemingly innocuous setting of a children’s tea party to explore how white British culture perceives race

At Goodman Gallery, the artist’s first UK solo show presents paintings like memories of a hot day revisited in sleep

‘Fly In League With The Night’ is brimming with characters we can feel, but whose stories remain tantalizingly out of reach

From a critical reimagining of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’ to a research project on the role of photography in the Irish civil rights movement, these are the best shows to stream

A new exhibition on the Italian design group at MK Gallery solemnly reminds us that the 1980s design movement was a commercial and ideological failure 

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

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

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'

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

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

From Lynette Yiadom-Boakye in London to Mary Quant in Dundee

At Project Native Informant, London, the artist asks how one person’s labour is exploited to facilitate another person’s leisure 

At Soft Opening, London, the artist’s new sculptures explore the psychic terrain of domestic space in the age of surveillance capitalism

At London's Cell Project Space, the artists' timely new commissions explore the potency of intimate gestures and simple actions 

Amongst the family portraits and Sèvres porcelain, the artist’s newly commissioned paintings reflect on a broken Britain

Shot in Cambridge, the artist’s latest film interlaces histories of laziness, from Johnny Mercer to Audre Lorde

For her first UK exhibition at London’s Barbican, the artist builds a narrative of two lovers caught up in a matriarchal society

The late US photographer challenges perceptions of African Americans in a two-part series