Five art-world figures – directors, artists, academics and gallerists – on why artist-run spaces, new galleries and collaboration remain vital to emerging talent

The photographer looks back on a close friendship, recalling the intimacy that shaped their shared world

The artist on how he reshapes the familiar – from cookware to classrooms – into wooden sculptures that expose the fault lines of American life

Carson Chan considers the fate and function of public statues at a time when many are being toppled

Ahead of his White Cube London show, the artist contemplates photography’s industrial heritage and his exacting image-making

The pair reflect on social practice, early collaborations, and the importance of mutual recognition in their work

The painter reflects on the support, wisdom and generosity she received from her late friend

The artist celebrates an influential statesman and painter whose work constantly crosses the boundaries of art, politics, writing and architecture

In her new book ‘Perverts’, one of poetry’s great dreamers puts nighttime’s revelations into social relation

He recalls their decades-long friendship and vivid memories of William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz and Allen Ginsberg in ‘The Bunker’

As the artist takes over the Royal Academy, London, Bryn Evans unpacks the sensual play of intimacy and light in one extraordinary canvas

At Kunsthaus Bregenz, the artist’s textiles and sculptures weave family, myth and craft to celebrate Roma culture

At Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the artist uses objects from athletics to upend the idea of individual achievement

Its 2025 edition, ‘Shelter’, seeks to disturb our anthropocentric attitudes by swapping spectacle for subtlety

His mid-career survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, reflects on the violence and absurdity of neocolonialism

At Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, the artist’s vibrant paintings depict speculative futures borne of 1960s counterculture

At The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, the artist-activist’s paintings offer a counterpoint to more overtly political work by her peers

By responding to the late artist’s works at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Olesen confronts the opaque legacies of postwar masculinity

At Cabinet, London, the artist’s minimal installation recreates a blurry photograph of a bus stop 

At Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, the artist holds the virtual treeline and the natural one in a single view

At Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, the artist’s participatory practice invites a radical, bodily mode of knowing

At ShugoArts, Tokyo, the artist combines nostalgic still lifes with assorted produce, cheap liquor and whistled Chopin

The artist’s survey at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico, demonstrates his commitment to liberatory notions of nationhood, kinship and art itself

At MASSIMODECARLO, London, the artist presents a series of unnerving paintings based on archival photographs of Francis Bacon

At Sursock Museum, Beirut, the artistic duo respond to violence, silence and historical fracture

At SAC Gallery, Bangkok, ‘If only it is seen, thus, from afar’ carves out a haven for self-expression

At Blue Velvet, Zurich, the artist’s charged sculptures balance violence with desire

On view at the Aspen Art Museum, the artist’s early replicas of canonical artworks appear imbued with love and disdain

At Galerie Krinziger, Vienna, the artist’s works act as a record of thought in motion

At Grand Union, Birmingham, the artist forges a devotional lineage of queer and trans lives in Qajar-era Iran

At David Peter Francis, New York, the artist repurposes medical impairment charts and losing lottery tickets to address inequality at the office

At Fondazione MAST, Bologna, the artist’s meticulously staged photographs highlight sitters whose social visibility is often denied

The 12th SITE Santa Fe International considers fictitious, historical and living characters – a curatorial gamble that pays off

At Tramway, Glasgow, the artist asks what bats and moths can teach us about sustainable living

At Kunsthaus Zürich, the artist’s maximalist vision restages historical fragments into living, unruly theatre

His print show at STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery, Singapore, upends the question: ‘What does it mean for an artist to be ahead of their time?’

In a series of formally playful snapshots at Goswell Road, Paris, the artist captures intimate moments of love and care

The artist’s show at Kunsthall Trondheim probes the stories we tell ourselves about oil – and proposes new ones

At the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, Venice, the artist and collaborators create a mesmerizing exhibition – part immersive Gesamtkunstwerk, part speculative archaeological site

The inaugural edition, ‘The Exchange’, asks us to meet art where we are: together, outside, in public

At Modern Art, London, the artist abstracts scenes from nature to create ambiguous paintings

At Kiasma, Helsinki, the artist’s visceral works expose the potent entanglement of mind and body

‘The Oracle’ showcases non-human actors and explores art’s power to dream and demand freedom – but lacks clarity

At REDCAT, Los Angeles, the artist parses the relationship between the US military and Hollywood in an effort to understand her father

At The Perimeter, London, the artist explores how women have been mistreated in both domestic and clinical settings