The art world is not the world, but what the world needs, artists need, too

From Jana Euler’s slugs to Kelly Akashi’s glass sponges, these are the must-see spring exhibitions 

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

Founded in 2009, the app sparked a revolution in sex, dating and the social dynamics of the LGBTQ community

The artists, collectives, movements and tendencies that shaped art in the 2010s

Pain and Glory, the director’s best film in 15 years, is a moving meditation on mortality, heartbreak and cinema 

The artist’s physically gruelling performances reflect on the black body and the possibilities of resurrection

As galleries return from summer break with a full slate of programming, here are the best shows in town

Food is personal, and so is this issue – the first of frieze to focus on food’s aesthetic, sensorial, political and environmental role in contemporary culture

At the Art Institute, an indigenous construction loophole uncovers ugly truths about the city’s racist and classist past 

The two artists and long-time collaborators speak to Evan Moffitt about the influence of Fluxus, the importance of improvisation and the challenge of reckoning with art history 

On the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the shows to see around the city that contend with LGBT culture and political history

On the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, we should take up the call of the women who fought on the front lines of the LGBTQ rights revolution

At Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, the UAE-born artist pays homage to his local terrains

Most works carry a subtle political charge that amounts to a thoughtful critique of the injustice of our times

The strongest exhibitions in the 58th Venice Biennale find creative freedom in failure 

At Metrograph, New York, Djibril Diop Mambéty’s newly remastered Hyènes offers a darkly comic metaphor of globalization

Two exhibitions, at MoMA and David Zwirner, reveal how the impresario and his milieu defied the rationalism of 20th-century art

Following her fellowship grant from United States Artists and an exhibition at Wrightwood 659, the designer and theorist discusses solutions to right-wing immigration policies and neoliberal economic development

In the artist’s first US survey at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, abstract paintings and sculptures evoke women’s bodies in pleasure and pain