Michael Rakowitz

From Alexander Tovborg’s spiritual yearning to collective mythologies as told by Miralda

At Barbara Wien, Berlin, the artist reevaluates his love of Leonard Cohen in light of the musician’s stance on Palestine

The curator and foundation director discusses showing art outside city centres and why she banned the word ‘offsite’ in her office

The two artists discuss Simmons’s latest exhibition at the Queens Museum, ‘Crisis Makes a Book Club’ and how art can be catalyst for sustainable change

In a time of heightened vulnerability, new media lends itself to the Arab diaspora, reconstructing ideals of exit, nationalism and things lost

From Tina Girouard, Carol Goodden and Gordon Matta-Clark’s SoHo restaurant to Allen Ruppersberg’s LA café, there’s an art to feeding

The artist behind London’s current fourth plinth sculpture has published a cookbook for date syrup

The Iraqi-American artist withdrew in protest over the Whitney’s vice chairman Warren B. Kanders and his links to tear gas producers

‘Enemy Kitchen makes Iraqi culture visible in the US beyond war, producing an alternative discourse and social space.’

With President Xi and the China International Import Expo in town, taking stock of ‘progress’ seemed both a timely and complicated endeavour

At the crux of this ambitious show lies the question: who is this triennial really for?

In further news: FT editor’s appointment as chair of Tate trustees criticized; and a Wes Anderson exhibition comes to London

With his fourth plinth commission unveiled in London, the artist talks archaeological magic tricks and Saddam Hussein’s obsession with Star Wars

Ahead of the openings of EXPO Chicago and the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, a guide to the best exhibitions around town

London’s fourth plinth artists announced; a new fund to protect cultural heritage in war-torn areas

Various venues, Turkey