A surprising show of silhouettes at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. sheds light on obscure chapters of US history 

At Museo Tamayo, artists respond to the myth of the French playwright and theorist’s drug-fuelled collapse in the mountains of rural Mexico

With his fourth plinth commission unveiled in London, the artist talks archaeological magic tricks and Saddam Hussein’s obsession with Star Wars

The Triforium – Los Angeles’s weirdest and most reviled public artwork – awakes from a long slumber

What the artist’s newly-unveiled chapel in Austin, Texas, tells us about the origins of his practice

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
 

Various venues, New Orleans, USA

Robin Campillo’s portrait of ACT UP Paris puts militancy before mourning

How Bethany Collins, Steffani Jemison, Adam Pendleton and Kameelah Janan Rasheed are using the tradition of black radical poetry to examine questions of subjectivity and race

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

The Pirelli Building, New Haven, USA

A report from the Chicago Architecture Biennial, whose interesting provocation sadly remains unanswered

On the eve of his solo exhibition at Centre Pompidou, Paulo Bruscky talks about mail art, fluxus and outwitting the Brazilian military dictatorship

In the Rocky Mountains resort town, boutique facades hide the remnants of a surprising counterculture 

Various venues, New York, USA

What the Pride flag says about the gentrification of queer politics 

Two recent conferences at MIT and the New Museum reveal the benefits, and pratfalls, of art and science collaborations

Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca’s films probe economics, race and gender in Brazilian popular music

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA

First impressions of Christine Macel’s ‘Viva Arte Viva’ in the Central Pavilion