Steven Zultanski on the Chicago-based cult video artist

The artist responds to ten questions

Contributing editor Jonathan Griffin on ageing and fallibility

The novelist and poet Robert Glück revisits dream journals left by his late partner, the painter Ed Aulerich-Sugai, whose life was cut short by HIV in the early 1990s 

Juliet Jacques speaks to the pioneering writer and theorist about her new book, ‘Reverse Cowgirl’, an ‘auto-ethnography’ of the self

After the loss of her husband, Dodie Bellamy discovered the make-up tutorials of one of YouTube’s biggest stars

The new director of London’s Chisenhale Gallery on thinking like an artist, racial hierarchies in museums and how she nearly didn’t apply for the job

Why generations of students at Cranbrook have made the pilgrimage to Bob & Hazel’s Ceramics in Pontiac, Michigan

As UK ceramics courses dwindle, Troy Town Art Pottery is providing paid weekend employment for a group of young trainees

On the occasion of her exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, the artist speaks to Jessica Loudis about moving to Berlin and ‘shrimping’ rituals 

For John Boskovich, Jean-Jacques Lequeu, Florine Stettheimer and Niki de Saint Phalle, obsessive decor served as ‘preparation for a voyage to another plane’

Poet Tan Lin recalls growing up in Athens, Ohio, with his sister, the artist Maya Lin – with specially commissioned photography by Roe Ethridge

Wandering Munich with the graphic designer Anna Lena von Helldorff, the author wonders what it means when time constantly overtakes us

frieze senior editor Pablo Larios visits the home of the mother and daughter artists in the Guatemalan highlands

The artist’s exhibition at Migros Museum, Zurich, reflects on the political uses of platitudes and truisms

At the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, the artist’s methodical excavation of her own home results in deeply evocative paintings

At James Cohan, New York, sculptures made from materials collected at crime scenes indict a system of violence and exploitation 

‘Out of Body’ – Self’s new solo show at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston – rumbles with piqued, defiant portent

How archival footage at MAXXI, Rome, brings to life Ponti’s wit, intellect and erudition

An exhibition by the late American painter at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, explores the struggle between men and women’s desires 

The sculptor’s ‘homecoming’ exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive fuses Japanese aesthetic principles with Bay Area trippiness  

A new exhibition looks back at the artists who resisted poisonous cultural narratives of the ’80s and ’90s with care, humour and style

At Królikarnia, Warsaw, the artist imagines a world in which unique natural, cultural and recreational resources are protected instead of endangered

For her latest show at Kerlin Gallery, the artist incites a state of half-recognition reminiscent of Alzheimer’s 

At MASP and SESC Avenida Paulista, the artist’s survey asks who ‘belongs’ and who controls the national narrative

The traditional and the technological combine to offer visions of our uncertain future

At David Zwirner, New York, the late painter’s work speaks frankly to a black audience without distracting appeals to white art audiences

The artist’s solo exhibition at GAO Gallery, London, is brash, demented and necessary

At Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, the artist’s painted grids speak to how memories are always mediated and wrought

At Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, a world of quiet empathy is set against modernity, instantaneity and the desecration of wild Brazil

For her exhibition at Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, the artist reassembled disused advertising signs into abstract sculptures

At Chapter, New York, collages on canvas and ceramic fuse references to Jewish mysticism and the history of craft

At Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, the artist’s paintings of the Sonoran desert span millennia of cultural references

The movement wasn’t all hard outlines, puns and absurdism as a show in London reveals

Showing new commissions produced over a two-year period, ‘Modes of Encounter’ is an attempt to reset the relationship between artists, institutions and publics – that doesn’t quite come off

At Gladstone Gallery, New York, the colourful lives of gay icons comprise a cultural self-portrait

The artist’s exhibition at PSM Gallery, Berlin, reflects on the relationship between body and mind

A play at London’s Cell Project Space on friendship, going off-grid, resistance, trans survival and not knowing what to do, but doing it anyway

In a retrospective at MAMCO, Geneva, rigour is underscored by play

A retrospective at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo struggles to convey the collective’s energy and impact