Some thoughts on transience, in art and life

‘Kara Walker reinvents painting and drawing’s conventions, while talking about ideas that are epic in scale and deep in blood,’ Als writes

As the artist’s largest survey to date opens at Zeitz MoCAA and Norval Foundation, Cape Town, Sean O’Toole examines his dadaist lexicon 

‘People younger than myself will be under the false impression that performance has always been taken seriously’

Karen Archey on Ligia Lewis and Alex Baczynski-Jenkins

In a special photo essay, the artist places her body ‘in the line of danger, admiration, rejection, description’

The artist’s physically gruelling performances reflect on the black body and the possibilities of resurrection

The restless, rageful ‘No Home Record’ lures as much as it discomfits

Performed images in contemporary art and everyday life

The Singaporean artist’s provocative performances constantly challenged power and prejudice

Fabian Schöneich on the artist’s new performance at Kunsthalle Basel

Should we be enjoying ourselves as the world goes to hell in a handcart?

Q. What could you imagine doing if you didn’t do what you do? A. Reading all day 

‘Surge’ finds uneasy resonances between the 1981 New Cross fire and more recent tragedies

Motion and migration in the paintings of Frank Bowling

Mimi Chu on Robertas Narkus, Nástio Mosquito, Nora Turato and more

From blues to jazz to the baroque – new fiction from Claire-Louise Bennett

Johnston showed how writing was performance and politics at once

In Harding’s paintings and sculpture, the past and the present merge in a potent reflection on contemporary Australia

In a new collection, the author of ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ updates her approach to feminism and psychoanalysis 

Drawing on his dancer’s training, Laris Cohen radically presents his body simply ‘as is’ in his performances

This year’s edition of the biennial in Moss, Norway, proves that it can trigger emotions but fails to show empathy

Barbara Casavecchia on the 2019 Golden Lion-winning artist

From the BBC and the films of Robert Beavers to the poetry of Margaret Tait, the artist reflects on his formative experiences

The artist’s extensive retrospective at the Migros Museum, Zurich, shows that the social diversity Willats portrays does not translate into an aesthetic diversity

As the playwright’s ‘Slave Play’ reaches a wider audience, Jameson Fitzpatrick looks at his work so far

Hernandez catalogues the avenues and intersections that make Los Angeles a city, and not only a web of connections between the area’s freeways and suburban sprawl

At C3A, Córdoba, the artist explores the strategies of theatre and its relation to the audience

From political caricatures to self-contradictory statements by Donald Trump, this year’s edition of the biennial pays tribute to the potential of satire

With the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi, an exhibition at Leipzig’s GfZK sheds light on the aftermath of the tragedy

The artist’s solo show of tapestries at Anna Schwartz Gallery in Melbourne are invocations of an erstwhile era 

In curator Susanne Pfeffer’s latest, ‘Museum’ speaks to our moment of funding scandals, museum protests and social media outrage

At Studio Voltaire, London, Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley take aim at #mefirst capitalism and the gospel of self-care

In the artist’s largest survey to date, science fiction and narratives of black resistance offer a vision of a more inclusive future

Artist Candice Lin connects the conditions of slave labour involved in building the drug trade’s infrastructure to the continued Orientalizing representations of the drugs themselves

Drawing from Martian landscapes and the notebooks of a closeted lesbian science fiction writer, the artist shows us how far we humans have yet to go

The artist’s survey at the Hessel Museum of Art at CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, links life on microscopic and cosmic scales with moments of spiritual self-searching and reflection

How the artist’s work expressed the feeling of being silenced

At Remai Modern, Saskatoon, the late carver and Kwakwaka’wakw Chief’s sculptures are an indictment of destructive consumerism 

A force in the late ’80s and ’90s, the photographer and critic receives her first solo show in over 22 years at Autograph, London

Abidi’s comic, deflationary videos undercut the pomp of state politics

Wesselmann’s sculpture attempted ‘to pick up a drawing by its lines and carry it’ into the world

The influence of op art leaves scant trace of the artist’s hand, but otherworldly unease pervades his repetitions and reflections

The Belgrade-born sculptor developed a language that acknowledged a world in flux

The only woman affiliated with the Arte Povera movement resisted machines, definitions and permanence

Amid widespread civil unrest, a timely show at Para Site speculates on the future of labour and politics in our technological age

At the Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College, ‘Where the Oceans Meet’ looks at the ‘creolizing’ of cultural influences across continents through the lens of Édouard Glissant and Lydia Cabrera

The artists in ‘Time Forward!’ at the V-A-C Foundation in Venice speculate on what the future might bring

A show at Gagosian, London, pairs the pop master with the early twentieth-century eccentric, beloved of Duchamp

The late artist rejected state censorship while presaging our image-saturated age

Shamefully, the artist was not awarded a solo show in the art-world capital until six years after his death

At HB Station in Guangzhou, the artist offers a shattered version of domestic bliss

A new show asks what it means to be radical in our age of spectacle

The first, long-overdue European survey of work by the East Coast painter opens at Modern Art, London 

The artist’s tent city at Hauser & Wirth, in rapidly gentrifying downtown LA, is a ‘parody of pious politically activist art’ 

A survey at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum displays the Austrian artist’s expert linking of social concerns and surrealism

The Belgian sculptor’s new work in San Gimignano reflects on mortality, medieval assertions of power and the migrant crisis

Found stashed under her bed when she died, the spiritualist’s drawings and embroideries go on show at William Morris Gallery

A show at Fondation Cartier, Paris, brings together works by young artists from across the continent