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As Blake’s most comprehensive retrospective to date closes at the ICA, Los Angeles, Shiv Kotecha examines the artist’s three-decade practice, which revels in the infinite variations of identity and pleasure

The writer’s ‘immoderate’, genre-crossing style set the tone for the biggest literary trend in recent years

Pharoah demonstrates a way to be in the world as a Black artist, expressing a sense of pride that does not violate privacy

New work on view at Lévy Gorvy proves that the artist, nearing 90, is at the top of his game

An artist who made a mockery of wealth and class pretensions is revivified as a prophet of possibility in a corrupted world

At two solo museum shows, the artist’s animations extend beyond the screen to sculpture, an experimental dance album and merchandise

The inventive and evasive choreographer, at work on a new project, grapples with the spectacle of death 

The prolific Polish writer has a complicated relationship to nationality

The singer committed her life to defying a classical music industry that was not only deeply critical of women’s bodies, but also sceptical of black talent

The group, who will perform at London’s City Lit this week, push experimental composition to its limit

The artist talks about the mystery and politics of making 

For two years, Jackson ran one of the most important galleries for black artists of the past half century

The restless, rageful ‘No Home Record’ lures as much as it discomfits

A tribute to the photographer, from the ‘sucker punch’ of ‘The Americans’ (1958), to his later work ‘howling with anguish, frustration and ennui’

Working across art, design and architecture, the trio make community-focused work that aims to have a long-term impact on an area and its inhabitants

For the artist, critic and teacher, who died last week at the age of 67, every ordinary thing held meaning in disguise

From climate-resistant menus to colonial desserts, Cooking Sections ask us to think again about the ethics and economics of the food on our plates

In Soskolne’s first show in nearly two decades, at New York’s Mishkin Gallery, the artist-activist takes on male networks and The Real Housewives of New York City

The artist, curator, educator and writer, who died on 30 June, was committed to supporting South Africa’s younger artists

Ian Bourland profiles one of the leading gallerists of the East Village scene of the 1980s