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Toyin Ojih Odutola’s portraits of a fictional aristocratic Nigerian family push toward an expanded definition of the ‘black experience’

Three shows in Ireland celebrate the legendary polymath, artist and author of Inside the White Cube

Significant Egyptian modernist Hamed Abdalla’s first UK show at The Mosaic Rooms, ‘an Arab intelligence operation, hiding in plain sight’

Remembering the photographer’s invaluable contribution to the history of queer aesthetics

On the Spanish artist’s magmatic morphologies, currently on view at Haus der Kunst, Munich, and Matadero, Madrid

From installation to innuendo, at Brisbane’s Griffith University Art Museum the Australian artist mines the inbetweenness of identity and language

Fan’s work manipulates the archetype and architecture of the body as we understand it

A recent show at London’s Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, coinciding with a new catalogue raisonné, shows the artist mapping space from outside and within

Now out from Rizzoli, a new book collects the collages of the recently-deceased poet and erstwhile art critic

Ahead of a survey opening at MCA Chicago, the Nigerian artist mines and represents narratives of place, from Antwerp to Lagos

With her first major solo exhibition in the UK, the US filmmaker Ericka Beckman speaks about video games, socialist Monopoly and breaking rules

A rare, newly-published interview with the late October editor, reveals an art critic intent on changing the terms of the debate

How dis.art blurs the lines between education, entertainment and commerce

From creation myths to gender politics, artist Melanie Jackson and academic Esther Leslie investigate that most indispensable of substances

With her show opening at Kunstraum in London tonight, the artist's choreographed performances capture bodies in flux

The Barbadian filmmaker, recipient of this year’s Margaret Tait Award, is intent on disrupting institutional complacency

Naeem Mohaiemen’s films reflect on recent histories of the global radical Left

‘That moment, that smile’: collaborators of the filmmaker pay tribute to a force in California's film and music scenes and a vital friend and ally

From a swarm of black paper moths to an invented typeface, a retrospective at MUAC reflects the Mexican artist’s shape-shifting practice

‘An artist in a proud and profound sense, whether he liked it or not’ – a tribute by Michael Bracewell