The artist’s sculpture possessed an almost surreal promise, as if at any moment it might become a Really Living Thing

A group exhibition at Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo, explores invisible worlds that lie beneath and within us

The work of John Hanson, Rob Nilsson and Fred Lonidier establishes a dialectic between a leftist melancholy and a more forward-looking politics

Michel Auder’s show at Martos, reminds us why, despite the optimists, art was never going to find its raison d'être under the current regime

The novelist explored Jewish identity in the US through a lens of frustrated heterosexuality

Senior US Editor Andrew Durbin selects his highlights of the shows in the city during Frieze Week

New York in spring: Andrew Durbin turns to film as a way of diary-keeping

At Petzel Gallery, New York, an installation of anthropomorphic sea creatures explores sinister forces of authority and violence

As the Man Booker Prize debates whether to nix US writers, the ‘homogenized future’ some novelists fear for British literature is already here

‘Very often, the answer to why not would be: because you’re a girl’ – for this series, writer Fran Lebowitz speaks about her experience in the arts

Andrew Durbin on Some Trick, an experimental collection steeped in the author's knowledge of classics and mathematics

With the arrival of the first superhero film to feature a black lead since 1998's Blade, a reading list on black comic-book culture

In Mexico's second city, the third edition of PreMaco arts festival shows it at the forefront of the country's ever-changing art scene

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

Openings at the new ICA, The Bass and PAMM played out against a backdrop of geographic uncanniness and atmospheric uncertainty

CANADA, New York, USA

Reflections, a favourite verse, and a new poem dedicated to one of the English language’s most renowned poets of the past century

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

New Museum, New York, USA

Douglas Crimp's new memoir charts his life in the galleries and gay bars of 1970s New York