Profiles

German iconoclast Franz Erhard Walther on his life and influences: from expulsion from art school to a missed encounter with Marcel Duchamp

With work in the Liverpool Biennial and ICA Philadelphia, the Seoul-based artist reanimates an ancient Korean musical system

Knussen’s music laid out each component as ‘precarious, vulnerable, exposed’ – and his conducting similarly worked from the inside out

The artist’s retrospective, curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston at ICA LA, shows how thin the line is between artist and art worker

A tribute to the late South African photographer, creator of idiosyncratic portrayals of everyday life under the yoke of apartheid

An exhibition of performances at Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, unfolds the rituals of sexual encounters

With a new performance work for Manifesta 12 in Palermo, the Amsterdam-based artist explores a state of continuous partial attention

The retrospective of the ‘professional pedestrian’ at MUAC chronicles a history of parodical performances and mass-produced paraphernalia

Artist Gregory Sholette remembers the illustrator he collaborated with for a specially commissioned frieze magazine project

With a series of paintings, 20 years in the making, recently shown for the first time in Berlin, the artist discusses her processes and inspiration

Coming of age during the second wave of Italian Futurism, the artist and designers’ mind-boggling experiments in genre and classification

A tender new film about the fashion icon and troubled genius whose creative vision ‘started the 21st century’

The collaborative practice, led by Helen Walker and Harun Morrison, uses community networks and humour to tackle serious social issues

The youngest architect to be entrusted with the yearly Hyde Park pavilion discusses the ideas behind her latticed courtyard design

The curators seem set to ask, ‘how civilized is the world’s current state of affairs?’

Publishing elegant, peculiar studies in fine attention and finer craft, how the small London press is producing some of the best writing around

At BALTIC, Gateshead, the Turner prize-winner uses East African fabrics and the words of renowned black writers to question ideas of belonging

A distinctively American artist who, along with four neighbourhood contemporaries, changed the course of US painting forever

The novelist explored Jewish identity in the US through a lens of frustrated heterosexuality

The US writer, who died last week, brought a quality of inestimable importance to the modern novel: a mind that was wholly in tune with the times