Painting

‘A countercultural beacon’: Ian Bourland reflects on the artist’s remarkable, six-decade career

A year marked by new visualizations, both controversial and celebrated, of the black body

Reena Spaulings, ‘bad painting’ and the institutionalization of Institutional Critique

Will Elliott of Colnaghi reveals the stormy history of an exquisite French portrait going on view this week at Frieze Masters

Claire-Louise Bennett's meditations on still life and ‘the aesthetic value of the events, tasks and items that constitute daily life’

Dan Fox looks at the work of Mark Bradford, who represents the US at this year’s Venice Biennale

Metro Pictures, New York, USA

How Colleen Asper's paintings challenge traditional representations of the body

The Brazilian painter gives an insight into how he makes his vividly figurative and abstract canvases

The winner of the 2016 Turner Prize responds to Laura Owens's painterly nets and fences

From Carmen Herrera's taste for simplicity to a history of competitive eating: what to read this weekend

Jens Fänge's mysterious environments

Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK

Georgiana Houghton's 19th-century spirit paintings

From Atatürk and Turkish nationalism in art to the enduring creepiness of Bruce Conner: what to read this weekend

Sensual, haptic, with a theory-driven conceptual cool, the painting of Ull Hohn, who died in 1995, is now on view in a first mayor survey at the Kunsthalle Bern

Painting and the question of taste in the work of Orion Martin

The relief paintings of Gina Beavers

At what point does a doodled line become a nose? The paintings of Allison Katz

Victoria Miro, London, UK