‘An Artist Who Has the World Really Buzzing Right Now’

Unmissable shows in New York this May include “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” The Whitney Biennial, and surveys of Marian Zazeela, Terry Fox and Joan Jonas

As major shows open on both sides of the Atlantic, we examine the medium’s subversive relationship with gender 

A show at Alison Jacques highlights the artist’s technical prowess and use of colour, but lacks critical discussion of her processes

From a survey of African fashion at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, to Florian Krewer’s animalistic oil paintings at Aspen Art Museum

At the Brooklyn Museum, New York, more than 300 items from 1950 to present day capture the global impact of artists from the continent

At his upcoming show at ICA Watershed, Boston, the artist transports his audience using the power of sound baths

Featuring Diedrick Brackens's intricate tapestries, Ernie Barnes’s depiction of Black American joy and Luchita Hurtado's surreal painting, artists at this year’s edition of the fair pull inspiration from the city of Los Angeles

From Samara Golden’s mirrored installation at Night Gallery to Ulysses Jenkins long-overdue survey at the Hammer, these are must-see shows in LA

At the Brooklyn Museum, the artist presents a suite of works that centres on their experience as a queer, Muslim femme to question ideas of origin and belonging

The collector and the digital strategist discuss the role of technology, art in childhood and Shen’s social media project, #CarlasCamo