I left the damp and maddeningly labyrinthine beauty of Venice a few days ago. Here is an assortment of observations still nagging at me:

The texture of Rosenfeld’s work is woven from often seemingly disparate times, places and registers of culture

Dan Fox invited eight artists and artist groups to reflect on their relationships to curators and curatorial discourse

The ‘laugh-out-loud’ appeal of Michael Portnoy’s theatre production, first staged at dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel

A day long programme of film screenings, talks and readings is dedicated to British science fiction and horror writer Nigel Kneale at New York's Michelson Theater

Bikesploitation and art

What kind of art do you stand for?

New York’s energetic community of experimental music and film venues

First broadcast in 1983, Robert Ashley’s TV opera Perfect Lives is a talkative exploration of sociability and storytelling

Marian Goodman Gallery

The artist Richard Hamilton has died, aged 89.

An update of Raymond Williams's 1975 dictionary of culture for today's art world

To coincide with the publication of his new book Retromania, Simon Reynolds talks about pop’s obsession with its immediate past