EXHIBITIONS In a year in which documenta 14’s Artistic Director Adam Szymczyk announced that his 2017 edition of the quinquennial mega show will be partly staged in Athens, the Greek capital played host to some fantastic exhibitions, not least in the independent spaces Kunsthalle Athena (‘This is Not My Beautiful House’, curated by Marina Fokidis), State of Concept (a solo show by Basim Magdy, curated by Iliana Fokianaki) and Totàl (‘They are indeed the principle of things, and yet they are not interpretable and empty as mirrors’, curated by Michelangelo Corsaro).

Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

Movie stars, late capitalism and fragmented attention spans

Rashid Johnson talks to Tom Morton about fiction, humour and homage

Omer Fast’s film adaptation of Tom McCarthy’s book, Remainder

Tom Morton is a writer, curator, and contributing editor of frieze, based in London. His recent exhibitions include ‘British British Polish Polish: Art from Europe’s Edges in the Long ‘90s and Today’ at The CSW Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, and ‘It Means It Means! - A Drawn Exhibition by Charles Avery & Tom Morton’ at Pilar Corrias, London.

From clairvoyance to religiosity and the secret of the ‘100 Black Planets’

The 55th Venice Biennale

The changing face of graduate exhibitions

Studio pottery, anti-art, John Fahey and compost

Tom Morton examines the feints and swerves, coded allusions and insider intimacies in almost three decades of work by Michael Krebber

New Year Quiz

What constitutes ‘real work’ in the cultural sphere?