An elegant exhibition of ceramics at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK, questions our expectation of functionality

From the Loewe Craft Prize to the Object & Thing fair, why traditional techniques are the future

Celebrating 25 years of one of Tokyo’s foremost commercial galleries

The provocative New York performance artist talks about her influences – from surfing to Jack Smith

The simplicity of the Japanese architect’s slate ‘wing’ belies its complex construction

From costumes to cubism, this impressive retrospective showcases the wide-ranging career of a Russian avant-garde icon

From demanding choreographies to ‘the sea of our subconscious’, further highlights from the National Pavilions in the Giardini

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

After years in the critical wilderness, Pattern and Decoration, the first postmodern art movement, is being reassessed by a number of exhibitions in Europe and the US 

The artist’s new Art on the Underground commission and the politics of paying attention

‘The Circular Garden’ was grown from the soil in six weeks using fully sustainable construction materials

Ahead of Art Basel Hong Kong, our selection of must-see exhibitions

As an exhibition of works selected by the Spanish author opens in London, he discusses realism, ambiguity and why he doesn’t want to be a ‘curator’

‘I spend my life as a writer trying (failing) to approximate Oswald’s verbal economy of means’

With President Xi and the China International Import Expo in town, taking stock of ‘progress’ seemed both a timely and complicated endeavour

Art and culture have a role in describing the unevenness of the world: where do we go from here?

This year’s edition acts as a house of mirrors reflecting the promises of globalization and the ‘intensification and erosion of nationalism’

At TG, Nottingham, a selection of photographs from the late 1990s raises questions about self-portrayal in a time before Instagram 

‘Mentorship? I don’t think I even knew what the word meant!’

Born in Kandy, Minnette de Silva was the first Asian female architect to be registered with RIBA