Reviews

At Baltic Centre, Gateshead, the Lithuanian artist duo open their first UK institutional solo with a quasi-operating room featuring a giant mechanical doctor

At Marisa Newman Projects, the artist presents an installation exploring his first experiences of identifying the self through colour

At Almine Rech, ‘Country Western’, the artist’s first solo show in the UK, draws on the unashamed iconography surrounding fame

At Cooke Latham Gallery, the artist replicates a doctor’s surgery, using mythic creatures as a metaphor for living with polycystic ovary syndrome

At Bel Ami, Los Angeles, the artist’s paintings take a satirical look at the grisly history of American bigotry against US Asian populations

Curated by Ekow Eshun, an exhibition of work by 11 Black artists at Lisson Gallery traces colonial histories alongside collective healing practices

At Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, the Brazilian painter uses geometric abstraction as a tool for engaging with endangered ecosystems

At Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, the artist's photographs and texts put colonial histories in perspective with the rise of nationalism in Europe

At Kunsthalle Basel, the artist’s peculiar designs and polished surfaces speak to the violence against bodies 

‘Can you hear my voice?’ at Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, asks what it means to claim agency amidst sectarian conflict

At Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, a retrospective of the late artist presents photography and video works that celebrate Latinx, Lesbian and working-class communities and the curative powers of self-acceptance

At STPI, Singapore, the artist's solo exhibition wryly investigates the systems and structures of power 

At David Lewis, New York, a presentation of the artist’s recent paintings and drawings reveals his continued obsession with sexual imagery and socialist Cuba

At Luma Westbau, Zurich, the artist-run imprint's first institutional exhibition envisions theory as a means of community-building

At The Drawing Center, New York, the artist presents a site-specific installation of large-scale drawings showcasing the bodily contortions of her crass cartoon counterpart, Fatebe

At Cob Gallery, London, the artist takes the seemingly innocuous setting of a children’s tea party to explore how white British culture perceives race

From Yayoi Kusama's flora-inspired sculptures at the New York Botanical Garden to this year's Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, these are must-see public art shows across the globe

At Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, the late artist’s drawings and sculptures celebrate the spirit and history of southern Black communities

From Shanghai-based artist Yu Ji’s national debut to the largest exhibition to date of British surrealist Eileen Agar, these are the must-see shows