The artist’s far-seeing experiments with digital avatars and viral antibodies help us better understand ourselves

In Buffalo, the artist Marlene McCarty has planted a toxic garden that draws on the area’s intertwined histories of capitalism, expropriation and utopian dreaming

Johnston showed how writing was performance and politics at once

‘Inside the cemetery, hundreds of names descend in chronological order, but time’s forward motion clearly does not signify progress here’

The US writer and filmmaker has created new paths for arts writing and critical thinking, not from wielding a cudgel but by exposing our bruises

Featuring Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, ‘Womanhouse’ marks the 30th anniversary of the museum dedicated to women artists

How Ellen Lesperance transmits messages about history, feminism and labour through the art of knitting

On Stellar Rays, New York, USA

Although their activities and missions are multiple, the foundations dedicated to New York’s artists all keep their founders’ visions alive

How Colleen Asper's paintings challenge traditional representations of the body

A year of protest, power and people, from L.A. Kauffman to Kerry James Marshall

Ahead of her upcoming solo show at the Whitney Museum in New York, Sophia Al-Maria talks shopping malls, war, climate change and Gulf futurism

Looking forward to Nancy Holt, David Horvitz and Eileen Myles

Alchemy, travel and the essay

Abrons Art Center & Bruce High Quality Foundation University Gallery, New York, USA

How a sense of the local shapes art in the US

The art of tiny revelations

The uncomfortable world of Marlene McCarty