As the city’s art world feels the strain, Francis Irv, KAJE and Soft Network lead a bold new wave of risk-taking spaces

From Bruce Nauman’s first solo exhibition in the city in three decades, to Togar’s immersive exploration of early cinema, here’s what to see in LA now

At FERNBERGER, Los Angeles, the artist’s abstract compositions suggest an indeterminate, emergent world akin to that of classical Chinese landscapes

The artist’s first institutional survey at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art assembles her eclectic ceramics, some of which she made with her husband

The satirical TV series about a ‘woke’ white couple’s real-estate ventures – starring Nathan Fielder, Ben Safdie and Emma Stone – critiques the art world

At Gagosian, New York, paintings that blend surrealism and social realism depict the disaffection of modern workers

At Helena Anrather, New York, the artist’s sculptures, photographs and video work document the surviving architecture of a less gentrified Lower Manhattan

Will Fenstermaker looks back on the acclaimed critic’s life and career

The latest experimental thriller from the Booker Prize winner propagates its subjects’ paranoia within the reader’s mind

At the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a massive survey, focusing on the famed artist's legacy, bypasses new readings of his oeuvre

At Pace Gallery, New York, a small survey of the artist’s oeuvre presents new and existing works which re-analyse both mass media iconography and her own family history

At The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the artist's series of stoneware works offer a feminist critique of domestic life under the unmistakable presence of death