Three leading artists explore the complex notion of a multi-ethnic national identity in post-globalization China

Under a metahistorical guise, the filmmaking duo enact hidden tyrannies of the contemporary age

The filmmaker and writer on the novelists, musicians and directors – from Egon Schiele to Virginia Woolf – who have shaped his thinking

With his fourth plinth commission unveiled in London, the artist talks archaeological magic tricks and Saddam Hussein’s obsession with Star Wars

A brief look at arts funding, the future of museums, and the dangers of efficiency

Critiquing the dominance of the white imperial gaze at Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto

Sam Thorne on the abundance of artists creating clouds, or works that cloud our vision 

Andrew Durbin on Some Trick, an experimental collection steeped in the author's knowledge of classics and mathematics

Jörg Heiser on the Soviet sci-fi classic Planeta Pur, algorithmic bias and the limits of artificial intelligence

Madeleine Thien takes a look at a celebrated painter who merged Western composition with Chinese brush-and-ink style

Surreal currents, charged objects and deformed bodies in the work of four emerging British painters

From Better Things to Motherhood and SMILF: Michelle Orange charts the turn towards nuanced representations of women in film and TV

The artist's layered, tender paintings consider the history of being seen and touched by black women

The artist restages and reconsiders the legacies of historical female intellectuals at Foskal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw

At Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, a fully biodegradable installation highlights society’s wasteful patterns of consumption

At Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, the artist creates an inventory of values we privately sustain but rarely admit

The Triforium – Los Angeles’s weirdest and most reviled public artwork – awakes from a long slumber

In her current solo show at Kunsthalle Zurich, the artist's sculptures propose new manners of dwelling and co-existence

Q: What should stay the same? A:‘The North Pole.’

'Frontier' at OCAT, Shanghai traces contemporary Chinese art's geopolitical concerns and the new complexities of living in a cosmopolitan world

The artist brings systems of exclusion and exploitation to light at Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia

Bétonsalon & Fondation d'enterprise Ricard, Paris, France

Lynne Tillman on Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, a tightly wrought film about a tightly controlled man

Artists from the Baltic region navigate volatile pasts and precarious presents at Kiasma, Helsinki

Scenes of an America long gone – or perhaps which never was – at MoMA, New York

Questioning the way that we interact with violent colonial histories at Portikus, Frankfurt

Questioning the hierarchy of objects and our fragmentary approach to knowledge at the Whitechapel Gallery, London

The artist investigates tensions between the sturdy and the fragile, and the public and the private at VI,VII, Oslo

The artist explores the politics of the female voice that speaks out, or is shut up, at àngels barcelona, Spain

At the Hammer Museum, LA, the curator casts a witty, critical eye on the vexed role of institutions contextualizing the art they display

The artist's ominous paintings suggest imminent threat and moral decline at Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry

At La Panacée, Montpellier, Nicolas Bourriaud’s manifesto for a new movement and attempt to demarcate an artistic peer group

The artist's early works amalgamate nature and technology at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

Images of sexual experimentation and chemical consumption recur in 'Sophie Podolski: Le pays où tout est permis' at WIELS, Brussels 

Viewers of the artist's exhibition ‘Let It Come Down’ at Bonner Kunstverein, Germany, experience the curious inbetweenness of a limbo state

Design-focused, craft-based and entwined in the politics and poetics of movement, the NGV Triennial’s most memorable works are future-orientated

Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton, UK

Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany

Bodega, New York, USA

Galerie Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, Germany

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
 

Hales Gallery, London, UK

Lévy Gorvy, New York, USA

Nottingham Contemporary, UK

Modern Art Oxford, UK