The opening performance of the 5th edition of OFF-Biennale, Budapest, by Dorottya Szonja Koltay, with the recurring lines, „Put it down, mama, put it down, put your sorrow down”, was both liberating and concerning.

Stephen Crawford never planned to be an artist. In fact, if you had asked him fifteen years ago, he might have laughed at the idea.

Hala Kusiak doesn’t paint to impress. She paints to stir something awake. Her art doesn’t shout, but it holds steady.

The ten absorbing and understated paintings of Otis Jones have transformed the elegant space of Nino Mier Gallery into an ascetic shrine of abstraction.

You push open the door, and a wave of warmth greets you. Light filters in from the side windows, scattering fractured shadows across the floor.

This opening up was championed by pioneers Christopher Wool, Richard Prince. and more recently Rudolf Stingel, Wade Guyton and Katharina Grosse.

Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun were both Surrealists, which makes you understand their twinning at Tate Britain from earlier provincial shows: hers St Ives, his Pallant House.

In her New York debut at Timothy Taylor, the British painter explores the emotional topography of motherhood and ancestry and the invisible threads of connection that bind us.

The Fondation Beyeler hosts an extensive solo exhibition dedicated to Vija Celmins (*1938, Riga), an artist known for her work in painting, drawing, and sculpture.

In the dense, flickering energy of Tokyo, where images crowd the skyline and visual signals never sleep, Norio Monma found his earliest visual sensibility taking shape.

In 1963 Stephen Spender characterised John Piper’s already eclectic and unusual career, as ‘a fusion of a lifelong search for a contemporary idiom with a passion for tradition’.

In the exhibition “Timeline Samples” at Berthold Pott Gallery in Cologne, Belgian artist Manor Grunewald revisits his own painterly archive, reconfiguring earlier works through processes of sampling, reproduction, and self-referencing.

“The model railroader is the truest creator: engineer, architect, and master of his own timetable,” reads a statement about Josh Dihle’s feverish exhibition, Basement Arrangement.

Anew collection of drawings, paintings, and collaborative textile works by Los Angeles-based artist Rob Sato.

At Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, the artist depicts queer and trans figures giving birth to symbolic versions of themselves.