Cultural censorship helps reinforce Communist Party narratives within China’s borders, but can easily backfire  

Musician Sumeet Samos on how Dalit music has helped mobilize against caste violence and institutional discrimination

The artist speaks with Olamiju Fajemisin on the legacy of Rock Against Racism in the UK

The artist answers the frieze questionnaire ahead of her solo show at the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 

The strengths of regional approaches in a country deeply divided by the dual crises of Covid-19 and Brexit

50 years ago, a manifesto by Seth Siegelaub reimagined what economic justice could look like in the arts

Ahead of his 13th feature film, Saint Narcisse, the cult film director speaks with Michael Bullock about the importance of self-love and self-exposure 

The painter, writer, educator and self-described ‘art appreciator’ invites us to follow and think alongside her

Deborah Levy can’t stop thinking about a work seen at Kettle’s Yard more than 30 years ago

Rianna Jade Parker on a new work from the artist’s first UK solo show

A.S. Hamrah on the portrayal of ‘red America’ in Hillbilly Elegy, Rebuilding Paradise and Nomadland

In a culture so fixated on image, Sean Burns explores why what’s beyond ‘the look’ is more important than ever

At Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, the artist blends reality and fiction to address issues of precarity 

At Galerias Municipais de Lisboa, the artist brings to the fore the conflicts and chances of migration 

From fish farms to factories, the artist duo’s first survey exhibition at Z33, Hasselt, looks at the different streams of production in the 21st century 

The artist’s retrospective at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, recalls the political and economic changes of the German capital

Two new films by the artist and her cohorts, on view at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, speak to joint struggles and why collaboration is key

The provocative artist’s major survey with British potter and ‘courier between East and West’ Bernard Leach invites the question: who has license to be so nonchalant?

From Luka Yuanyuan Yang's video project on America’s Chinatowns to Yu Ji's investigation of forgotten histories in an unoccupied apartment, these are the best shows from the city 

At Gianni Manhattan, Vienna, the artist presents a dystopian future in which water has dried out and technology has failed us

At Kunsthall Charlottenborg, a group exhibition aims to draw connections between witch trials and colonialism but fails to grapple with their continuities 

A new exhibition on the Italian design group at MK Gallery solemnly reminds us that the 1980s design movement was a commercial and ideological failure 

At the Wexner Center for the Arts, the artist draws connections between the US Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Albers’s theory of colour

At Yossi Milo gallery, New York, the artist’s manipulated photographs of Manitoba forests cut through the optimism of the hippie dream

At Prizer Arts & Letters, Austin, the artists present works that reaffirm the US experiment is ongoing

At Kicken Berlin the artist's work explores what it meant to be a woman in the German Democratic Republic

‘Made in L.A. 2020: a version’, slated to open in 2021, exposes the horrors of American life pre-pandemic

Capturing moments of stillness and anticipation, at Workplace, London, the artist uses layers of stippled colours to conjure never-ending narratives

Exhibited in defunct phone booths along 6th Avenue, artists including Renée Green, Glenn Ligon, Patti Smith, and Rirkrit Tiravanija ask us to engage with the world around

At Gallery 1957, London, the Ghanaian artist explores Stuart Hall's theory that cultural identity 'belongs as much to the future as it does to the past'

For his first solo exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, the artist riffs on the iconographies and hierarchies of a bygone era

Informed by his Manchurian identity, the artist sets out by motorcycle for the Chinese Eastern Railway to explore the Northeast province's fading heritage

Diverging from filmic poetry, at Magenta Plains, New York, the artist presents a new body of work without his usual smattering of textual imagery

Two concurrent shows at the Bronx Museum and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, track the artist’s career and ‘chopped-and-screwed’ process of reimagining art history

At Karma, New York, the artist presents a new body of work that goes beyond the ‘gestural abstraction’ for which she is best known

At White Columns, the artist presents a series of neon works that highlight ‘critical moments in US history’ from 1526 to 2019

At Auto Italia, London, a film by Invernomuto and Jim C. Nedd traces the history of Afro-Colombian sound systems

At CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, the artist presents a series of vanitas-inspired paintings about Bay Area slang

Conceptual artist Patrick Jackson presents a series of photographs and glass shelves that riff on modernism and minimalism