Can’t relate? Don’t worry: you’re not alone

‘Pop today is a broad church, but no one would ever argue that it’s not fun’

Various venues, Cuenca, Ecuador

Petzel Gallery, New York, USA

Gagosian, New York, USA

Dan Fox talks to Michael Smith about minimalism, comedy and failure

Dropped from the psychic landscape of British pop and undetected by the radar of retromania, where did these diverse communities go?

Holly Bynoe, Charles Campbell, Amanda Coulson, John Cox, Annalee Davis and Caryl Ivrisse-Crochemar on the role of contemporary art in the Caribbean

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA

Useful mistakes, ikebana and messy cultural assumptions in the work of Camille Henrot

British art and the 1990s

Porto Alegre, Brazil

A response to Richard Prince

Tate Britain, London, UK

The 55th Venice Biennale

Can old ways be better ways? Or, Irony, playful ambivalence and fixed meanings

Why pop music craves art’s pieties and licensed intellectualism and art lusts after music’s broader cultural authenticity

David Levine, whose work embraces theatre, performance and video, discusses acting and identity

I left the damp and maddeningly labyrinthine beauty of Venice a few days ago. Here is an assortment of observations still nagging at me: