Issue 238

Jorie Graham and Geoffrey G. O’Brien on poetry as a tool for fostering responsibility in a changing world

How the artist's development is shaped by his family and local community

A retrospective at Tate Britain showcases the YBA who defied good taste and mocked sexual norms

The photographer’s most recent film candidly documents her personal journey

How the artist’s family photo albums trace her ancestral history

Novelist Isabel Waidner explores the artist’s keen interest in writing and books

The artist and Tiona Nekkia McClodden discuss grounding their work in African Diasporic histories

Transforming limitations into artistic resources with community support

A closer look at the transgressive artist who brought cooking into the gallery

At Darat Al Funun, Amman, the artist uses abstraction to address troubled histories

At Museum MACAN, Jakarta, the artists’ large-scale installations made of discarded objects capture the emotional resonances of overlooked communities

At the Badischer Kunstverein, the artist explores the transformative potential of seemingly unassuming actions

In a retrospective at Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, the artist’s brutal visions of his homeland’s history are juxtaposed with sometimes too-safe curatorial decisions

In ‘L’être, l’autre et l’entre’ at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, the artist weaves together human and cosmological in-betweens

At P.P.O.W, New York, the artist presents drawings, sculptures and installations created from the material and spiritual detritus of his Massachusetts hometown

At Galerie Molitor, Berlin, a posthumous exhibition dedicated to the artist shows a selection of her cut-out canvases from the 1970s

The artist fluctuates between meditation and masochistic intensity at London’s Whitechapel Gallery

At Fondazione Memmo, Rome, the artist’s new video reaffirms their identity outside of socialized norms and constructs

At The Approach, London, the painter brings domestic scenes and transient recollections into the light

The first major US survey of the artist’s work at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, is a joyful display of her syncretic ways of making