New York

The union of museum employees want to draw attention to problematic contract changes for staff healthcare and overtime

Otherworldly sculptures warp the spaces and histories they occupy, in shows at Clearing and Salon 94, and for the Met Roof Garden commission

Comic book images of female vulnerability become symbols of liberated sexual energy at Anton Kern Gallery, New York

An early painting by the Japanese artist has been estimated at USD$7–10 million ahead of a Sotheby’s sale in New York

On the occasion of her MoMA retrospective, six missives to the artist from her peers

Senior US Editor Andrew Durbin selects his highlights of the shows in the city during Frieze Week

Activists from the group Decolonize This Place led chants for ‘repatriation’ and ‘reparations’ at New York’s Brooklyn Museum

The artist's materials include avocado extract, wild walnut, yew berries, nettles, hematite and tea at David Lewis, New York

At the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the artist’s retrospective explores love, loss and identity in the works forged by her AIDS activism

New York in spring: Andrew Durbin turns to film as a way of diary-keeping

In further news: Kenneth Frampton receives Golden Lion at Venice Architecture Biennale; and MoMA sues a cafe for copyright infringement

‘They asked for this lawsuit on a silver platter’ said collector Steven Tananbaum’s counsel, alleging a Ponzi-like scheme

How the late artist's transparent sculpture rethinks the relationship between figure and ground

An exhibition of the work of the late Madeline Gins reveals an artist, architect and poet who pushed language into intensely imaginative and speculative realms

At Petzel Gallery, New York, an installation of anthropomorphic sea creatures explores sinister forces of authority and violence

At Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, the artist transposes visions of queer intimacy into an animated technofuture

An extensive exhibition of the graphic artist’s optical puzzles will be further enhanced by ‘immersive photo booths’

In New York, the artist untangles the intertwined histories of ballet, avant-garde visual art and clandestine gay life in mid-century America

At 303 Gallery, New York, the artist demonstrates how easily we give meaning to the mundane, and how easily we can give it away

Political histories interweave with personal narratives of familial displacement, queer loss and desire at the Guggenheim Museum, New York