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Featuring a proposal for a circular motorway around a mountain peak, the ‘weird and absurd’ work of the Russia-based artist

On the eve of her Guggenheim retrospective, a new book of esoteric drawings reveals the spiritualism behind Europe’s first abstract artist

Poet CAConrad looks at the ways in which the artist addresses the corrosive role of empire in our daily lives

What does a picture tell? Not one story 

An eclectic group of artists, from different backgrounds and styles, united in rejecting nostalgic, orientalist nationalism

An homage to the architect who, with his partner Denise Scott Brown, developed the source code for postmodernism

Remembering the Romanian artist, who has died aged 92, for whom the studio was a continuous state of mind

Cruel Fiction expresses hope for concrete social movements that imagine a different world than our own

McKenzie Wark pays tribute to the French cultural theorist, who called our era one of ‘dromocracy’: the reign of speed

Currently the subject of a retrospective at El Museo del Barrio in New York, the Buenos Aires-born artist plays with size – and expectation – to probe the ‘other situations’ of modern life

Born in Kandy, Minnette de Silva was the first Asian female architect to be registered with RIBA

The extraordinary life of artist Mary Edmonia Lewis, a sculptor of African American and indigenous heritage who achieved international acclaim 

In the sculptor’s mini-retrospective at De La Warr Pavilion, suggestive abstractions turn material reality into richly poetic encounters

From fleshy, distorted paintings, capturing the malaise of the 1960s, to colourful abstractions made in exile, the artist was an example to live by

The beloved angst-ridden musician makes a lively turn with her new album, Be the Cowboy

A Nobel Prize-winning writer, a misogynist, a small-town boy with a haughty, big-city gaze: Naipaul’s life was marked by a sense of doubleness

A mother’s death, a father’s disinterest: Jean Frémon’s semi-factual biography of the artist captures a life beyond repair

As two recent London exhibitions of the architect’s photographs show, this underappreciated polymath has always been ahead of her time

From high-end kitchens to backyard pit smokers, the esteemed food writer found art and artistry in ‘the fault lines’ between communities

With work in the Liverpool Biennial and ICA Philadelphia, the Seoul-based artist reanimates an ancient Korean musical system