The how, why and woes of distilling a quarter century of groundbreaking art into a single list

Join us as we count down the defining works that have shaped contemporary art since 2000

The documentary photographer made high art of ordinary Brits in what is now recognised as his unmistakable oversaturated style

From Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind to the recent Louvre robbery, what do museum break-ins – real or imagined – reveal about the allure of the thief?

The protests that derailed the Museum of West African Art’s opening reveal that neocolonial donor money and weak local patronage made it unfit for purpose

At Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, the artist’s survey blends playful performance and video art with subtly political, participatory installations

At Tanya Leighton, Berlin, the artist’s monumental paintings fuse musical notation, self-portraiture and colour-field intensity

At Hollybush Gardens, London, the Turner Prize winner works with commonplace items to reveal how histories and narratives are constructed, circulated and socialised

In an exhibition of floor-bound sculptures at the Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, the artist tests the limits of duration, contingency and collapse

Scaling from intimate Manhattan sets to an all-city performance, the artist conducts Albuquerque by radio and map before a sonic retrospective at ICA Boston

With the monolithic survey now open in the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, the show’s curator reflects on why reassessing women artists’ presence in the canon remains essential

The director discusses the building where Jean Nouvel’s design meets four decades of art and ideas from the Fondation Cartier Collection