Q: What music are you listening to? A: Things that would disgust my teenage self; I have betrayed her.

In recent years, abstract painting has experienced both a new popularity and a critical backlash. Can it be written off as ‘zombie formalism’ or are innovative approaches to abstraction really being developed?

Social division and artistic engagement in the work of Mohamed Bourouissa

Being betrayed by the body

Wolf-whistling at fallen angels in Lukas Duwenhögger’s imagined worlds

Jennifer Higgie talks to Sheila Hicks about the 60-year evolution of her artistic language

Material production and the march of history

What is Dansaekhwa and what is its legacy today?

Cold portraits and warm-hearted annotations

Dan Fox explores handcrafted futures and the automated present in Scott Reeder’s new sci-fi film Moon Dust

Creativity as resistance

The importance of being curious

Can Egypt’s NGOs survive repressive new legislation?

Arts funding and the recent elections in Brazil

An alternative history of graphic design

‘This emergent style is not so much a genre as a sensibility – an approach to rhythm, texture and referentiality that stands apart from long-established modes’

Twinship in contemporary art

A combination of memoir, fiction, art criticism and autobiographical reflection, The Story of My Teeth is a remarkable story about stories

Ecological innovation in Chinese architecture

Paris, France

Șișhane Otopark, Istanbul, Turkey

Power Station of Art, China

Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China

Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

Minerva, Sydney, Australia

1646, The Hague, the Netherlands

Extra City Kunsthal and Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium

Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK

Drop City, Newcastle, UK

Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK

Rowing, London, UK

Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

Southard Reid, London, UK

Matt's Gallery, London, UK

White Cube, London, UK

Various venues, Turin, Italy

Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal

Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich, Switzerland

Balice Hertling, Paris, France

Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany

Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

Campagne Première, Berlin, Germany

Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

Fogo Island Gallery, Newfoundland, Canada

Ratio 3, San Francisco, USA

The Screening Room, Miami, USA

Mary Boone Gallery & Metro Pictures, New York, USA

Murray Guy, New York, USA

Petzel Gallery, New York, USA

Lombard Fried, New York, USA