Naked piss-tank dancers; Wohnung dioramas; monuments to massacre, and more – ArtReview editors on the national pavilions not to miss at the 61st Venice Biennale

Defending connoisseurship, criticism and collective intelligence in the age of AI slop

It’s sometimes hard to know where Na Hong-jin’s monster movie, reportedly the most expensive Korean movie ever made, is going – other than on and on

Staging subjects of racial inequality, power and a yearning for better futures, the artist keeps things fluid

It’s not just the earth that’s being turned over in the redeveloping London’s ‘creative quarter’

Through restagings and reconstitutions of Mike Kelley’s past performances, the artists question our relationship with images and reality

The Japanese artist’s symphony of decomposing matter and broken things offers a poetic reflection on the disjointed state of modern life

Grotesquerie has long been the language of rebellion. On our screens and in the contemporary art gallery, an era of ugly, morbidly playful satire is back

The artist is interested in the role clothes serve as both a means of presentation and of concealment

Staging the artist’s sculptures in the UK’s late-capitalist haven tells Owen Hatherley plenty about the various false aesthetics of ‘Englishness’

The exhibition is at its best when work evokes the minutiae and anguish of emotional, embodied, everyday struggles

We seem to be living in an era of competitive shamelessness

“Violence exceeds the physical, operating structurally and pervasively, to the point that it is naturalised as the very air we breathe”

Visually seductive, responsibly researched, culturally portable and diplomatic, In Minor Keys is a protest conducted with fine-print slogans and no concrete demands

Staging the artist’s sculptures in the UK’s late-capitalist haven tells Owen Hatherley plenty about the various false aesthetics of ‘Englishness’

It’s not just the earth that’s being turned over in the redeveloping London’s ‘creative quarter’

It’s not just the earth that’s being turned over in the redeveloping London’s ‘creative quarter’

Through restagings and reconstitutions of Mike Kelley’s past performances, the artists question our relationship with images and reality

The exhibition is at its best when work evokes the minutiae and anguish of emotional, embodied, everyday struggles

The Japanese artist’s symphony of decomposing matter and broken things offers a poetic reflection on the disjointed state of modern life

The Japanese artist’s symphony of decomposing matter and broken things offers a poetic reflection on the disjointed state of modern life

More than a century on, the Venice Biennale remains a stage for soft-power plays, where art and propaganda are inseparable

“I was quite aware of the fact that it’s, in actuality, very difficult to understand what is happening when you look at whatever you see around you”

Rosenthal will remain director of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi project until the museum's opening, set for this December

The artist ponders the long game of embroidery, having too many ideas at once, where to sit in a puppet show and whether making fashion is selling out

The artist is interested in the role clothes serve as both a means of presentation and of concealment

Inheriting galleries hung chronologically, with mediums strictly separated, she set about breaking down such rigidity

The 22-strong group will receive NOK 300,000

Surveying the historic representation of the blind and visually impaired in photography – and even simulating their experience – a new show in Taipei expands what ‘seeing’ can mean

The rich history of black graphic scores represents a visual culture creating space for improvisation, imagination and unknowability in much the way black musical culture does

Staging subjects of racial inequality, power and a yearning for better futures, the artist keeps things fluid

Former orchestra chief takes over

An exhibition examining ‘heat as bodily sensation, historical memory and cultural language’ is more a hotchpotch of the three curators’ pet topics than a satisfying whole

Can a concept of trauma be returned to the working class, the abused and the exploited? Is it too late? Does anyone even care anymore?

Can a concept of trauma be returned to the working class, the abused and the exploited? Is it too late? Does anyone even care anymore?

Lance Hammer’s ‘Queen at Sea’ is the latest in a series of films to tackle the subjects of ageing, dementia and the right to control your own life

Lin Htet Aung’s poetic, nonlinear films defy categorisation, confound international audience expectations and won’t be shown in his native Myanmar anytime soon. So what are they about, and who are they for?

These anti-nuclear protest gatherings in the late 1970s – and their atmosphere of optimism born of convivial en masse comradeship – have a lot to teach us today

The controversy-courting Banana-man’s big German survey doesn’t show us much that we don’t already know, says Martin Herbert

The artist and activist rages against environmental destruction and the efforts to call those responsible to account

Far from being kitsch or sentimental, ‘Ukrainian Lessons’ reads best when the author steps away from her journalistic position

Can we realistically ask an artwork to correct ethical or political wrongdoings?

On a visit to an exhibition by Raqs Media Collective, Pramodha Weerasekera finds that art can still play for high stakes at high altitude

Henry Roberts took in the week’s scenes and screenings, from Primetime to NAZA, and found the light at the end of the tunnel to be dim