At Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, the artist’s depictions of the excesses of consumerism and empire are all-too seductive

As society withdrew behind screens Cal Revely-Calder reflects on how the visage has become a focal point in painting during the COVID-19 crisis

At Almine Rech, ‘Country Western’, the artist’s first solo show in the UK, draws on the unashamed iconography surrounding fame

Translations of Proust’s Sodom and Gomorrah and Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel come together and fall apart in the artist’s latest show

All attention is an act of devotion, and patience is the pleasure of this touring exhibition of contemporary paintings 

‘Walking alone, he denied himself short-cuts in exemplary style’

Sara Sinclair’s new anthology of interviews recalls the parties, the poverty and the ongoing hero worship

‘Musicality and Humour’ shows the artist at his spontaneous best

How much to read into Samuel Beckett’s flirtation with fashion?

At Blain|Southern, London, the Mexican artist’s primordial canvases evoke the beginning of the beginning

‘He created rhythmic patterns that sounded, in your mind or on his voice, both adamantine and feline at once’

On show at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in London, the works show the American master at the height of his powers

The fallacies of ‘community building’, online and IRL, in the work of Cécile B. Evans

In ‘Clothes Line’, at London’s White Rainbow, the artist explores improvisation, social groups and the minute fluctuations of the day to day 

With a republished collection of her writing by David Zwirner Books, the Italophile critic is shown to be as dangerous and uncanny as she is intelligent

Publishing elegant, peculiar studies in fine attention and finer craft, how the small London press is producing some of the best writing around

At Richard Saltoun, London, two artists share the belief that rhythm is a trait of the body and women’s bodies are too closely policed

 At David Zwirner, London, studies in mortality and intimacy from the artist's final years display his remarkable stylistic range

At Alison Jacques Gallery, London, the late artist's paintings are caught in the act of testing their own mettle