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Meticulous, gently humorous paintings isolate a deeply personal encounter with the obdurate structures of society and culture

The artist-investigator tunes his work to the undocumented, the surveilled, immigrants and prisoners; those fleeing the talons of the state

The artist queers the canonical histories of art and theatre, pointing to how things might actively and fantastically engage in being otherwise

Ahead of her presentation at Centre Pompidou in June, the artist and choreographer talks about slowness, detail and the anti-spectacular

Three leading artists explore the complex notion of a multi-ethnic national identity in post-globalization China

Under a metahistorical guise, the filmmaking duo enact hidden tyrannies of the contemporary age

Madeleine Thien takes a look at a celebrated painter who merged Western composition with Chinese brush-and-ink style

The artist's layered, tender paintings consider the history of being seen and touched by black women

In her current solo show at Kunsthalle Zurich, the artist's sculptures propose new manners of dwelling and co-existence

A series of ‘magical transformations’: Tacita Dean’s new work launches across three institutions in London

What accounts for the enduring appeal of Germany’s cult experimental author Hubert Fichte? 

Architecture, idealism and anachronism in the work of Cui Jie

How do representations of sleep reflect contemporary culture?

Why can’t New York get over its ‘bad old days’?

How Bethany Collins, Steffani Jemison, Adam Pendleton and Kameelah Janan Rasheed are using the tradition of black radical poetry to examine questions of subjectivity and race

Angelica Mesiti’s films explore the myriad ways humans communicate

On the prolific and varied career of artist, designer, collector and archivist Elaine Lustig Cohen 

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

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