Review

A new show asks what it means to be radical in our age of spectacle

Season 2 of Ryan Murphy’s campy television series mixes magical realism and conventional melodrama to radical effect

The artist’s montages, at David Lewis, New York, are elegant but cryptic reflections on belonging and complicity

By transforming Paris’s Lafayette Anticipations into a weaving machine, the Dutch designer suggests alternative architectural uses of textiles

The works on paper at Parker Gallery, in Los Angeles, ‘encounter memories, fantasies and dream images along the way’

At the Met Breuer, a winding path guides viewers through the late artist’s seductive, organic sculptures 

The artist’s witty, immersive retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario broaches basketball, Indigenous culture and gay desire 

The first, long-overdue European survey of work by the East Coast painter opens at Modern Art, London 

A timely documentary about the backslide into dictatorship reveals some uncomfortable home truths in the US

The artist’s tent city at Hauser & Wirth, in rapidly gentrifying downtown LA, is a ‘parody of pious politically activist art’ 

At the Storefront for Art and Architecture, a pop-up Puerto Rican museum employs culture as a means of resistance

In the French artist’s evocative exhibition at Marcelle Alix, Paris, blind spots transform into vantage points

In My Mother Laughs, Akerman’s pain while watching her mother’s health worsen becomes entwined with the shock of heartbreak

A survey at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum displays the Austrian artist’s expert linking of social concerns and surrealism

A new show at Richard Saltoun begs the question – how effective is self-inflicted violence?

At Singapore’s Yeo Workshop, the artist unsettles the image of Southeast Asia as a tropical getaway

As her retrospective at MAXXI in Rome attests, the late Italian artist believed in the power of the imagination to save lives 

At Museo Jumex, Mexico City, the father of the readymade gets overshadowed by bluster

The Belgian sculptor’s new work in San Gimignano reflects on mortality, medieval assertions of power and the migrant crisis

Found stashed under her bed when she died, the spiritualist’s drawings and embroideries go on show at William Morris Gallery