New York

With a show at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, disguise, diasporic identity and dolphins collide in the New York-based artist’s work

An exhibition at Essex Street, New York, shows how closely Hill’s literary and artistic work is linked to her critique of domesticity

The spectral presence of prisoners in everyday commodities 

An exhibition at Metro Pictures, New York, sees the artist explore the artistic potential in objects of everyday life

The ecstatic silliness of breaking the rules is evidenced in this show about the dancers, composers and artists who reshaped American art

At Pace Gallery, New York, a new series shows the artist’s personal exploration of the Mao era and its traces in the present day

In further news: collector joins Mapplethorpe censorship row; new space for Bronx Museum of the Arts

From Charline von Heyl’s unruly pictures to EJ Hill’s disenfranchised black body, the best exhibitions across the city

Currently the subject of a retrospective at El Museo del Barrio in New York, the Buenos Aires-born artist plays with size – and expectation – to probe the ‘other situations’ of modern life

An exhibition featuring the noise musician was cancelled after a backlash around his links to white supremacists

‘This retrospective portrays an inveterate outsider, a champion of the different and disempowered, as a fixture of a canon he reviled’

In times of political turmoil, art is a necessary rebuke to escapism

In ‘Flesh’ at the Jewish Museum, New York, the Lithuanian painter’s visceral still lifes seem eerily prophetic 

At Karma, New York, the artist herself becomes ‘a reproductive medium’, revisiting natural subjects and bringing realism ever closer to abstraction

A beautifully spare presentation at Lomex, New York, uses a tangle of haberdashery-esque materials to invoke transcedent scenes

Michel Auder’s show at Martos, reminds us why, despite the optimists, art was never going to find its raison d'être under the current regime

Statues of pioneering suffragettes will break New York’s male-dominated ‘bronze ceiling’

In Eleanor, or The Rejection of the Progress of Love, two women repudiate the long-held expectation: get a husband, make babies

The artist shows a muscular blend of figuration and abstraction at Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, and Philadelphia Fabric Workshop and Museum

The Compound in the South Bronx will open with a show of legendary hip-hop photographer Jonathan Mannion