Brian Dillon on the television programme’s museum of images and memories 

The artist’s first novel proceeds by image and incantation rather than much in the way of explicit plot

From enfant terrible of British ballet to a retrospective at the Barbican Gallery, how the choreographer and performer found a home in the contemporary art world 

‘There is pain and suffering in these pictures, but also pure possibility’

Learning to survive a jittering feed of survivalist pro tips and transhumanist dreck

The writer’s ‘immoderate’, genre-crossing style set the tone for the biggest literary trend in recent years

In ‘Coventry’, events seem to happen to somebody else, to a person Cusk repeatedly exposes and judges

‘It’s the way he talks about his own death that amazed then and impresses today’

Found first in the pages of NME, an homage to the critic who brought an antic traduction of high French theory to the study of contemporary pop

The Wooster Group’s adaption of the infamous, hot-tempered event reminds us just how brilliant Germaine Greer used to be

Revision and revolt in the work of Nairy Baghramian

Author and poet Susan Stewart's new book shows her abiding concern with lyric

Tate Modern, London, UK

From Michael Gove to Mary Hurrell to Orange is The New Black, the year in review

Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK

In her prints, paintings, photographs and videos, Andrea Büttner explores poverty, community and her philosophy of 'little works'

Personal, vexing, intimate and profound: some reflections on Brexit

‘The photographer was born in Jamaica in 1960 and grew up in Dalston, east London; he was given a Leica camera and taught darkroom techniques by a patron of his local church’

the Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK

Claire-Louise Bennett, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Niamh O’Malley: Brian Dillon shares his highlights from 2015