Joan Jonas

From Joan Jonas’s layered installations to Alexander Apóstol’s archetypal characters of Venezuelan society

Lynne Tillman meets with her long-time friend to discuss fairytales and the artist’s beautifully layered works

Unmissable shows in New York this May include “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” The Whitney Biennial, and surveys of Marian Zazeela, Terry Fox and Joan Jonas

While the American artist was staying in Dublin in the 1990s, she encountered a female character with a wildness to match Mad Sweeney 

What to know in the EU’s arts and culture this week

An exhibiton at Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, is dedicated to two of New York’s most influential galleries of the 1980s

In further news: artists for Planned Parenthood; US court rules on Nazi-looted Cranachs; Munich’s Haus der Kunst cancels Joan Jonas show

In further news: the future of Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building uncertain; Ai Weiwei returns to eBay

Move to make ticketed exhibitions more affordable for a younger audience 

‘Elastic Hours’, the 8th edition of the Sequences biennial in Reykjavik, Iceland, took time scales – both short and long – as its subject

A new one-night-only contemporary arts festival in London

The experimental filmmaker and musician has died, aged 76

56th Venice Biennale, various venues, Italy

Q. What do you like the look of? A. The everyday world: grand and microscopic.

Joan Jonas talks about the evolution of her work and the importance of myth, music and history to her thinking

Various venues, Sydney, Australia