Painting

For the last video in the series on creatives and their home cities, the acclaimed South London-raised artist shares a slice of her home life in Leyton

At The Breeder Gallery, Athens, the Nigerian artist tethers the superficial conventions of European portrait painting to the semiotics of Blackness

The painter’s largest retrospective to date, at Tate Britain, cements her place as one of Britain’s most inventive and compelling living artists  

At Taymour Grahne Projects, the artist's saturated paintings depict the city’s queer community in the nostalgic afterglow of nightclub life

At MO_Space, Taguig, two artists project materiality through contrasting approaches to 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