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As it's director celebrates two decades at the helm, can she continue to reinvent the 120-year-old institution?

With a new work on view at the Queens Museum, the artist continues to probe the paradox of Asian-American visibility and ‘model minority’ myth

The President of Spelman College reflects on the role that historically black colleges and universities in the US have played in supporting the work of emerging artists and scholars 

At the artist’s first institutional show in China, real life slips into the shadows of a digital world seeking to supplant it

As her retrospective ends at Denver Art Museum, the Colorado-based artist reflects on ‘tender-type beginnings to sagging ends’ of ageing sculpture and bodies

This year’s Marcel Duchamp Prize winner looks at knowledge that has fallen through the cracks

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’