‘Technological advancement does not assuage our fears’

Warburg has been credited with both inventing and destroying art history

Short fiction inspired by Aby Warburg’s ‘Panel B’

Is this art? Science? Who cares?

‘There is pain and suffering in these pictures, but also pure possibility’

‘This is how you walk through water’

The consolations of ancient philosophy for our dire moment

The New York-based photographer answers our questionnaire

Before Twitter, Félix Fénéon’s daily ‘novels in three lines’ made a literary art form of current affairs

Ahead of his new work, filmed on a boat in Venice, an interview with the Italian auteur

The Berlin-based artist works across and between performance, text and image

From @jerrygogosian to @bradtroemel, memes have become a primary method of institutional critique

On the video-sharing app, laughter lubricates the wheels of the desperation train

The New York-based comedians give sexually repressed characters, from sci-fi heroes to famous academics, the chance to fight and fall in love

Why be part of the art world when you can just crash the party? 

The critic’s folksy guide, How to Be an Artist, includes some valuable insight on the creative process 

The artist’s installation – based on the interior of a nearby gay cruising bar – invokes a haunted sense of refuge

At Museo Jumex, Mexico City, a retrospective of the pioneering architect’s key projects shows how she worked to tear down class and racial barriers in Brazilian society

Through her spatial interventions at Établissement d’en face, Brussels, the artist reflects on the layering between art and politics 

An exhibition at Jan Kaps, Cologne, stresses the trauma of economic transformations in formerly socialist countries

The artist’s photographs of domestic spaces, souks and bodegas, displayed on 100 bus stops around New York and at Helena Anrather, are ‘altogether unworldly’ 

Global pandemic may have altered our sense of time but, in the Chinese artist’s work, the present is an illusion anyway

In an exhibition at Kunstverein München, Hill’s work from the 1960s appears prescient in its exploration of female office labour

At Marlborough, New York, the Puerto Rico-based artist builds a new pantheon from the wreckage of colonialism and Hurricane Maria 

In an exhibition organized by Studio Voltaire, the artist’s work grows at a pace with which galleries today are often unfamiliar

At Tabakalera, San Sebastián, 24 artists reflect on the algorithms that rule the world

In her first institutional exhibition at Kunsthall Trondheim, the artist combines scientific research with fictional elements to create puzzling audio-visual narratives

Within the chaos murmurs an incoherent hope in this ambitious – and at times baffling – exhibition

An exhibition at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, explores writing’s role in embodiment and spiritual grounding

At Lévy Gorvy, New York, the painter reinscribes the female gaze into art history

With shades of the flâneur, the artist wanders the German philosopher’s rural retreat at Todtnauberg in a new series of short films

The artist’s exhibition at Haus der Kunst, Munich, examines empirical uncertainty and political disillusionment 

In the artist’s survey exhibition at The Power Plant, Toronto, surreal references to the decades-long conflict blur the lines between bodies and objects, dreams and reality

These unusual and little-known early works from the 1960s revel in flawed functionality

‘New Images of Man’, curated by Alison Gingeras at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, is ‘part homage, part radical revision’ of the eponymous exhibition

In the context of increasingly sadistic attacks on Muslim people, the Glasgow-based artist provides a space for grief and dreaming

The artists’ joint presentation at MoMA considers the ways human biology both coexists with – and is subsumed by – modern technology

The paintings and woodcuts at Tokyo’s Taka Ishii Gallery miss something in their nostalgia for an older vision of image-making