The art world is not the world, but what the world needs, artists need, too

Neutrality is a veil for wielding power: this is the status quo that requires resistance

The psychoanalyst Karen Horney argued that neurosis killed productive artistic practice

One year into the authoritarian president’s term, Brazilian artists are pushing back against state violence and censorship by summoning the spirit of the ‘sertão’

Former British Museum trustee Ahdaf Soueif asks: who our museums for?

Q. What should stay the same? A. Curiosity, generosity, care.

Hardline, right-wing policies restrict entry to the country to ‘the great minds’

Five months after its abrupt closure, the LA museum shows no sign of reopening. Where does that leave the growing movement of art worker unionization?

The first entirely state-funded art museum on the continent is also a relic of a turbulent political and economic history

Addressing inclusivity isn’t just about the workplace – it’s about a richer arts scene that is properly reflective of society

In a pastoral Welsh landscape where poets once gathered, the Royal Air Force now trains pilots in warfare

Shuttered in the city’s crackdown on independent initiatives, the artist-run space provided a model for low-budget, experimental art making

Michelle Millar Fisher and Andrea Fraser discuss how to radically reshape the power structures of museums today

The translator of the Nobel Literature Prize winner on jet lag, death threats and insomnia in Poland

‘We need to rebuild solidarity’

As major exhibitions at Nasher Sculpture Center, National Gallery of Art and the Museum of Cycladic Art honour the iconoclastic sculptor, novelist Hermione Hoby reflects on her six-decade career

From school strikers at the Royal Shakespeare Company to a Trojan horse at the British Museum, protests over oil sponsorship have gripped the arts

From the first steps of the internet to vibrant raves, ‘Time Is Thirsty’ at Kunsthalle Wien aspires to create a ‘temporal mash up’

At Fort Gansevoort, New York, a 30-year survey of the artist’s work articulates a political and ethical accountability to the land

A recent exhibition at Carlos/Ishikawa, London, conjured an experience of being controlled within a carceral capitalist state

A major retrospective at Dresden’s Albertinum sheds new light on the artist’s relationship with his hometown

The artist’s show at Tramps, New York, asks if we’re too eager for young artists to self-destruct

Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, exhibits the painter’s postmodernist appropriation of philosophical and historical narratives

Or, why the Gulf conflicts never really went away

How the recently restored Abraham’s Farewell to Ishmael, on view at the Pérez Art Museum, Miami, speaks to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

A recent show at London’s Cecilia Brunson Projects allowed the late artist to speak for himself

At Marta Cervera, Madrid, the artist conjures up survival mechanisms and congealed debris

At Matthew Marks, New York, the artist’s enigmatic marbles and projections perform a subtle excavation of the gallery’s architecture 

The artist’s first exhibition at DREI, Cologne, reflects on the social implications of everyday objects and the permanent switching between self and role

At the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, the artist screens the lost films of a Hollywood huckster, a reminder that the media industry runs on broken dreams

At the Morgan Library and Museum, New York, the artist’s photographs of words and light receive their due

At Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, the 80-year-old ‘professor emeritus’ presents new works as dazzling and personal as ever

The artist’s exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery, London, seems to mirror the evanescent nature of experience

At Converso, Milan, the artist transforms a baroque church into a playground for sculptural interventions

A recent exhibition at Jenny’s from one of Los Angeles’s most elusive artists

With rapid cuts, spatial leaps and sudden bursts of sound, two films at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, create a maze-like experience

The artist’s recent retrospective at Kunsthalle Bern wittily reflects on the circumvention of originality

Nicole Gravier’s ‘fotoromanzi’ at Ermes-Ermes, Vienna, create an escapist melodrama that stresses the dependence of capitalism on unpaid housework by women

At the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, Steir synthesizes two dominant modes of American painting: abstract expressionism and minimalism

Iqra Tanveer’s quiet show at Grey Noise, Dubai, is full of puzzles and meditations

A public installation in London’s Bermondsey suggests that the linguistic landscape is deteriorating along with the ecological one

At LABOR, the artist has captured airborne contaminants on 52 canvases, damning evidence of the capital’s unsafe conditions

At Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, the artist highlights the ways in which Kurdish culture is expressed at the intersection of myth and reality

From bratwurst sculptures to Prussian monuments, at Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, the artist looks at the construction of German identity 

40 years on, the fight for reproductive rights, and against sexual violence, has never been more pressing

At Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, five decades of the artist’s immersive work speak to the brutality and sensuality of American life

The video artist Li Ran’s return to painting, at Shanghai’s Aike gallery, is suffused by a sense of cinema

At David Lewis, the artist repurposes ephemeral Americana to remark on the disintegration of 1960s countercultural dreams and ideals

With ‘Cantiere’, the sculptor shows himself to be one of Italy’s best kept secrets

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

The artist’s latest commission pulls back the curtain on state power

Patrick D. Flores’s southeast Asia-focused exhibition is hopeful, in spite of its sometimes academic tenor

In an exhibition at Focal Point Gallery, the artist looks to the local marshes of Canvey Island with a weird degree of hope  

The provocative and politically prescient exhibition grapples with hard truths and traumatic histories