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McKenzie Wark pays tribute to the French cultural theorist, who called our era one of ‘dromocracy’: the reign of speed

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

Born in Kandy, Minnette de Silva was the first Asian female architect to be registered with RIBA

The extraordinary life of artist Mary Edmonia Lewis, a sculptor of African American and indigenous heritage who achieved international acclaim 

In the sculptor’s mini-retrospective at De La Warr Pavilion, suggestive abstractions turn material reality into richly poetic encounters

From fleshy, distorted paintings, capturing the malaise of the 1960s, to colourful abstractions made in exile, the artist was an example to live by

The beloved angst-ridden musician makes a lively turn with her new album, Be the Cowboy

A Nobel Prize-winning writer, a misogynist, a small-town boy with a haughty, big-city gaze: Naipaul’s life was marked by a sense of doubleness

A mother’s death, a father’s disinterest: Jean Frémon’s semi-factual biography of the artist captures a life beyond repair

As two recent London exhibitions of the architect’s photographs show, this underappreciated polymath has always been ahead of her time

From high-end kitchens to backyard pit smokers, the esteemed food writer found art and artistry in ‘the fault lines’ between communities

With work in the Liverpool Biennial and ICA Philadelphia, the Seoul-based artist reanimates an ancient Korean musical system

The artist’s retrospective, curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston at ICA LA, shows how thin the line is between artist and art worker

A tribute to the late South African photographer, creator of idiosyncratic portrayals of everyday life under the yoke of apartheid

An exhibition of performances at Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, unfolds the rituals of sexual encounters

With a new performance work for Manifesta 12 in Palermo, the Amsterdam-based artist explores a state of continuous partial attention

The retrospective of the ‘professional pedestrian’ at MUAC chronicles a history of parodical performances and mass-produced paraphernalia

Artist Gregory Sholette remembers the illustrator he collaborated with for a specially commissioned frieze magazine project

With a series of paintings, 20 years in the making, recently shown for the first time in Berlin, the artist discusses her processes and inspiration

Coming of age during the second wave of Italian Futurism, the artist and designers’ mind-boggling experiments in genre and classification