A look at the art historical echoes in the artist’s work, on the occasion of a major retrospective at the Barbican Art Gallery, London

The artist’s multidimensional practice disrupts conventional ideas of film and how it’s exhibited, redefining the medium's boundaries

The artist reimagines the Divine Comedy through an anti-colonial lens in three exhibitions across Lehmann Maupin’s galleries

The late writer’s work embodied love, beauty and rage – qualities the US desperately needs under Trump

The artist’s camp, playful sculptures and performances – now at Focal Point Gallery – offer a spirited, surreal attempt to preserve the past

How the artist integrates nature into her creative process, letting her surroundings shape and co-create her canvases

We revisit the artist's vast and varied practice ahead of a posthumous retrospective at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen

At 52 Walker, the artist’s sculptural syntax builds on years of quiet experimentation to reflect on death, ritual and the porous edges of identity

The pioneering novelist and poet, who championed avant-garde practices, continues to inspire contemporary artists and writers

Ahead of Mehretu’s solo show at K12, Düsseldorf, the two discuss space, abstraction and how art becomes a language of survival

As the city’s art world feels the strain, Francis Irv, KAJE and Soft Network lead a bold new wave of risk-taking spaces

At K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, the artist’s layered paintings trace the afterlives of trauma and memory 

At Bangkok Kunsthalle, a show of the Sino-Thai artist’s calligraphic abstractions invites meditations on history and impermanence

At Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, an expansive group show amends the historiography of media art by including some of its neglected female pioneers

At Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, a significant survey by the artist charts her ongoing experiments in gestural and accumulative brushstrokes

At Leeds Art Gallery, the artist obliquely references his own diasporic family history whilst resisting the exploitation of identity

The artist’s minimalist interventions at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, grapple with absence, erasure and exile

At Fondazione Merz, Turin, the artist’s experimental works examine acts of making, foregrounding process over product

At the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the artist explores the unique qualities of ASL through drawing, video and sculpture

At ROZENSTRAAT, Amsterdam, the artist draws attention to the histories that taint cities across the Netherlands

Riffing on a technology trade fair, the artist’s show at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, suggests that what’s onscreen doesn’t matter

At Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, the artist’s cryptic compositions challenge our need for meaning in art

At Gagosian Davies Street, London, the artist’s seriocomic images probe the experiences of Black Americans

A retrospective at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, traces the artist’s insistent, strange and utterly distinct iconography across three decades

At Phileas, Vienna, the artist diligently covers found and domestic objects in her handwriting to advocate for female emancipation

At Hauser & Wirth, Paris, the artist’s unnerving works reflect on the remnants of consumerism

The meeting of environment and technology is front and centre in the Californian artist’s retrospective at Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

A group exhibition at Rose Easton, London, celebrates one of the human body’s most versatile organs

A powerful exhibition at Autograph, London, proves the late photographer’s significance

At Konsthall C, Stockholm, the artist’s sound installation examines the environmental damage of regional river systems, calling for collective mourning and remembrance

At Pace Gallery, London, the artist’s compositions of organic material highlight the importance of collaboration

At 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, a group show about nature and technology asks visitors to listen to the trees