Weekend Reading List

From rituals and identities to fun and humour, a show at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, traces the history and impact of food in photography

A new book and exhibition celebrates contemporary Black photographers working across art and fashion

A pink octopus, guerrilla projections, a bloody ‘die-in’ – what the environmental pressure group gets right about visual communication

From dub nightclubs to police brutality, the artist’s new commission at Brixton Station captures the African-Caribbean experience in London

From day-long raves to queer events, how photographers such as Wolfgang Tillmans captured the city’s nightlife

An exhibition at Vitra Design Museum documents the movement’s influence on commercial products

The Kenyan-American artist’s bronze caryatids occupy the museum’s empty niches which have lain bare for 117 years

A new book charts Theosophy’s influence on Western modernism

Marwan Bassiouni’s photographs feature Dutch landscapes framed by Islamic motifs, patterned walls and prayer rugs

In 2018, just one third of global exhibitions were by women artists. These galleries defy the trend