Q: What do you like the look of? A: Water, always, in any weather. Calm, stormy, in the morning, at sunset, even at night.

On the Marxist-inspired children's films of Hartmut Bitomsky and Harun Farocki, screened for the first time in more than 40 years 

MAXXI, Rome, Italy

Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria

The winner of this year's Palme d'Or is a fictionalized portrait of contemporary culture's new villain: the curator 

Various venues, Edmonton and Banff, Canada

Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany

Barbican, London, UK

Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany

Human playthings and disfigured dolls in the work of Jean-Marie Appriou, Veit Laurent Kurz, Kris Lemsalu and Athena Papadopoulos

Artist Kerstin Brätsch and filmmaker and writer Alexander Kluge speak to Pablo Larios about algorithms, fortune-tellers and stained glass windows

Stuart Middleton’s sculptures, stories and films reflect on the violence of gentrification and London’s changing urban landscape

On the eve of his solo exhibition at Centre Pompidou, Paulo Bruscky talks about mail art, fluxus and outwitting the Brazilian military dictatorship

Influence and innovation in the sculptures of Leonor Antunes

On recent artistic appropriation controversies

On the intertwined histories of music, sampling and influence

Novelist Hari Kunzru on the current culture wars in the US

Diedrich Diederichsen and Renée Green discuss cultural ownership and transfer in Germany and the US. Moderated by Pablo Larios

Poet Claudia Rankine and filmmaker Alix Lambert talk to the domestic ‘intelligent personal assistant’ about film, theatre and biases in computer programming

A new book on the legendary curator Walter Hopps 

Dave Chappelle's comedy of discomfort 

The importance of visiting galleries in the flesh 

Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

Thirty years on, could a pioneering self-build scheme – documented in a new book – help solve London’s current housing crisis?

What simulations tell us about the real world 

From Stravinsky in a car park to concerts in living rooms, how is classical music culture changing? 

Fifty years of writing by the filmmaker Thom Andersen 

The books that have influenced Man Booker International Prize winner Han Kang 

Various venues, Madrid, Spain

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Germany

Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada

Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

Various venues, Le Havre, France

2 Queens, Leicester, UK

Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland

Instituto de Visión, Bogotá, Colombia

Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Ikon, Birmingham, UK

PSM Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Various venues, New York, USA

Edel Assanti, London, UK

Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, USA

The Mosaic Rooms, London, UK

Various venues, Manchester, UK

Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brazil

Venus Over Manhattan, New York, USA

Breese Little, London, UK

Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

Pirelli HangarBicocca and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy