What To Read This Weekend: Free Improv at Davos and The Fall’s Pulp Modernism

A century ago, the novelists Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann depicted a world recovering from war and pandemic. What can we learn from translating their works today?

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