Profiles

‘She was working on a theory of everything’: on the extraordinary life and work of Swiss visionary Emma Kunz, now at London’s Serpentine Gallery

A tribute to the late curator and his belief in the primacy of documentation

In the artist’s first US survey at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, abstract paintings and sculptures evoke women’s bodies in pleasure and pain

A tribute to the late curator’s support of artists in South Africa and how his writing on them ‘revealed something of his acute sense for history’

A tribute to the Nigeria-born poet, critic and ‘most important curator of his generation’, who persistently bid us to open our eyes

‘To Carolee, drawing, like painting, was as visceral as breath,’ writes Emma McCormick-Goodhart

Ahead of the Italian artist’s show at Raffaella Cortese, Milan, a look at his ideations of suffering and injustice

In the artist’s exhibition at Centre Pompidou, materials are laced with humour and sexual innuendo

In two shows at Goldsmiths CCA and Hales Gallery, London, Nilsson furthers her life-long alchemization of objects and limbs 

Paying tribute to the legendary designer and his passion for books

Sound and light as means of order and control melt into signifiers of rebellion and counter-culture in Rodeh’s immersive installations

A musician with a rare ability to write both great pop songs and deeply experimental and melancholy music

Baum’s work, on view at New York’s Bureau Gallery, calls attention to the overlooked hand labour of the textile industry

As his retrospective opens at the Hammer Museum, a look at the influence Ruppersberg has held over art and pop culture

From Myspace aesthetics to Backpack Kid, entering London’s narrative projects feels like stumbling into an online echo chamber

Looking back at the intimate musical language of Luc Ferrari (1929-2005), who employed cinematic methods in the service of quotidian storytelling

The iconic filmmaker’s influence was felt across the length and breadth of New York in the 1960s

Hiller’s discomfort towards dominant narratives made her look at all sorts of suppressed subjects, from outlaw cowgirls to protest songs

As her solo show opens at the New Museum, New York, the artist discusses the legacies of colonialism and art world privilege

The Beijing-based filmmaker focuses on performances in day-to-day life to suggest how history is produced