Johan Grimonprez’s recent films explore the mechanisms of the arms trade

Helen Marten responds to Ed Atkins’s new work, Old Food, currently showing at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

From the new issue of frieze: Changes in urban cultures and queer aesthetics across the Sinosphere 

The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA

A new wave of figurative painting in recent New York exhibitions prompts critical questions about which bodies we depict, for whom and to what end

The London Sinfonietta celebrates 50 years of supporting and performing new music

Our complex relationship to the world's oceans 

In praise of the inventive brilliance of the late Guy Davenport 

Q: What do you wish you knew? A: ‘Why I find vacuuming the house so oddly gratifying.’

Blast Theory, Forced Entertainment and Slavs and Tatars: collectives fusing theatre, art, performance and politics to create interactive experiences

Alice Rawsthorn on the Italian design duo’s response to ecological and political concerns

KOW, Berlin, Germany 

Various venues, Berlin, Germany 

What does the new music genre 'necropolo' reveal about Poland's current political situation? 

Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium 

The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK 

The Tetley, Leeds, UK 

Virginie Despentes's trilogy, 'Vernon Subutex', and the revival of state-of-the-nation novels 

The Commercial, Sydney, Australia 

Éric Baudelaire's thoughtful response to the attacks on the French capital

Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany

Philip Guston's 'Klan' paintings are more relevant than ever

What live-action role play can teach us about artistic participation 

Lomex, New York, USA 

From early Vogue shoots and Hollywood’s golden era to domestic still lifes, the photographer reveals the images that have inspired her

With a host of new private museums opening in Cape Town, Sean O’Toole considers the impact on the local arts scene while Amie Soudien explores the city’s burgeoning grassroots arts spaces

Barbican, London, UK

White Cube, Hong Kong

Galerie Conradi, Hamburg, Germany

New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, Germany

The Pirelli Building, New Haven, USA

Marian Goodman, London, UK

Simon Preston Gallery, New York, USA

Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland

Lyon, France

Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, USA

Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK

galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France

Various venues, Folkestone, UK

Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico 

Victoria Miro, London, UK

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

Modern Art Oxford and Tate Liverpool, UK

Fifty years after the term was coined, a show in Samos reflects on ‘the unlikely liaison between love and politics’