Review

A recent exhibition at Carlos/Ishikawa, London, conjured an experience of being controlled within a carceral capitalist state

In a retrospective at MAMCO, Geneva, rigour is underscored by play

A major retrospective at Dresden’s Albertinum sheds new light on the artist’s relationship with his hometown

The artist’s show at Tramps, New York, asks if we’re too eager for young artists to self-destruct

Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, exhibits the painter’s postmodernist appropriation of philosophical and historical narratives

A retrospective at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo struggles to convey the collective’s energy and impact 

How the recently restored Abraham’s Farewell to Ishmael, on view at the Pérez Art Museum, Miami, speaks to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

A recent show at London’s Cecilia Brunson Projects allowed the late artist to speak for himself

At Marta Cervera, Madrid, the artist conjures up survival mechanisms and congealed debris

At Matthew Marks, New York, the artist’s enigmatic marbles and projections perform a subtle excavation of the gallery’s architecture 

The artist’s first exhibition at DREI, Cologne, reflects on the social implications of everyday objects and the permanent switching between self and role

At the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, the artist screens the lost films of a Hollywood huckster, a reminder that the media industry runs on broken dreams

At the Morgan Library and Museum, New York, the artist’s photographs of words and light receive their due

At Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, the 80-year-old ‘professor emeritus’ presents new works as dazzling and personal as ever

The artist’s exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery, London, seems to mirror the evanescent nature of experience

At Converso, Milan, the artist transforms a baroque church into a playground for sculptural interventions

A recent exhibition at Jenny’s from one of Los Angeles’s most elusive artists

With rapid cuts, spatial leaps and sudden bursts of sound, two films at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, create a maze-like experience

Nicole Gravier’s ‘fotoromanzi’ at Ermes-Ermes, Vienna, create an escapist melodrama that stresses the dependence of capitalism on unpaid housework by women

At the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, Steir synthesizes two dominant modes of American painting: abstract expressionism and minimalism