Painting

At Goodman Gallery, the artist’s first UK solo show presents paintings like memories of a hot day revisited in sleep

Rykeyn Bailey captures the violence of time passing in a new series of drawings and paintings

Capturing moments of stillness and anticipation, at Workplace, London, the artist uses layers of stippled colours to conjure never-ending narratives

Two cities, two creatives, two shows

When lockdown hit London, the artist Issy Wood used her blog as a regimented daily exercise: an attempt to describe the experience of a time when ‘every day is precious but of no consequence’

Amongst the family portraits and Sèvres porcelain, the artist’s newly commissioned paintings reflect on a broken Britain

At Ortuzar Projects, New York, the artist’s radiant portraits of travellers on ‘citizen ships’ maintain ‘an abiding faith in the power of the human spirit’

At Braunsfelder, Cologne, a series of painted rubber plants speaks to our need for calmness

Omar Berrada on the artist’s polymathic imagination

For Adnan, art and politics need not be in conflict

At Adams and Ollman, Portland, the artist’s recent paintings depict scenes now impossible in quarantine 

At the Norval Foundation, Cape Town, the artist’s recent paintings refer to the contentious 2017 re-election of Uhuru Kenyatta 

At the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, the artist’s methodical excavation of her own home results in deeply evocative paintings

‘Out of Body’ – Self’s new solo show at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston – rumbles with piqued, defiant portent

An exhibition by the late American painter at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, explores the struggle between men and women’s desires 

The artist’s exhibition at PSM Gallery, Berlin, reflects on the relationship between body and mind

In a retrospective at MAMCO, Geneva, rigour is underscored by play

A major retrospective at Dresden’s Albertinum sheds new light on the artist’s relationship with his hometown

Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, exhibits the painter’s postmodernist appropriation of philosophical and historical narratives

An exhibition at London’s National Gallery shows a rebellious painter’s ambivalent relationship with the Western canon