The Baltimore’s director on why correcting the art historical canon is not only right but urgent for museums to remain relevant

Five contemporary painters, from Charline von Heyl to Tauba Auerbach, discuss the role of abstraction

Santa Monica Museum of Art

How car advertising borrows from contemporary art

Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, USA

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

The successful deployment of melancholy as a marketing tool to sell war-based video games

Artists Walead Beshty, Liz Deschenes and Eileen Quinlan discuss the return of the topic of abstraction to photography

A recent performance about masculinity and sport revealed cultural exclusion within the art world

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA

ACME, Los Angeles, USA

Lombard-Fried Projects, New York, USA

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, USA

Videos, hoods, a ‘period eye’; surrealism and surveillance

Political engagement in art from the USA and Silvia Kolbowski’s ambitious new work

Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA

Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Los Angeles, USA

At Tony Shafrazi Gallery New York, a glimpse into the space’s immediate past is the backdrop for a motley assortment of work

Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA