The Insiders
As the no-strings Paul Hamlyn Awards for Artists turn 30, it’s time to celebrate what makes them special
These awards, which have increased to £75,000 for each recipient this year, are unique in that they come with no conditions
From ‘bleeding’ sculptures to pirate utopias: how women, queer and non-binary artists are reshaping the Korean art scene
As works at major fairs and biennials have made clear, the K-art landscape is rich with artists confronting gender hierarchies and pushing other conversations in new directions
Steve McQueen delves into family history at Dia Chelsea
Works in the artist’s show at the New York institution include a video installation in which he narrates a story of racially motivated violence told by his father against images of the actor Al Jonson in blackface
Socially engaged practice has become the art form du jour—this international network is at the forefront of the sphere
With its recent forum in Brussels, Afield brought its focus on social change to new levels
After a harrowing personal trauma, Thomas Houseago unveils unsettling sculptures in New York
Horrors of the artist's past are on display at Lévy Gorvy Dayan
From punk pioneer to major market player: 40 years of Maureen Paley gallery
Paley's operations have grown from a derelict London house to three spaces across the UK—but her risk-taking, collaborative nature remains the same
New York exhibition places brutality of Leon Golub's paintings in dialogue with contemporary artists
Hauser & Wirth show conceived by Rashid Johnson shines light on the "collector friendly" Expressionist
Common ground: how galleries are sharing the load to stay afloat
At time of rising overheads, smaller dealers are finding it makes sense to share gallery spaces and fair stands
From Athens to the island of Hydra: a Greek odyssey beckons for New York artists
US artists including Dana Schutz, Tschabalala Self and George Condo have opened shows in the Mediterranean cultural hub—as their home country remains fractured
Maurizio Cattelan is the latest artist to take aim at US gun culture—but he's hardly the first
At Gagosian, he trains his weapon of social satire on violence as a source of wealth
Lake District project connects rural England to international art world
Grizedale Arts combines creativity and hospitality in reopening region’s oldest inn
Gasworks in London celebrates 30 glorious years
The artist studios and residencies provider is modest in size but huge in impact
In New York, Arthur Jafa sets record straight on Scorsese's Taxi Driver
In two shows in New York, at 52 Walker and Gladstone, Jafa gets to the dark side of Black life
Powerhouse south London art organisation Gasworks celebrates 30 years
The exhibition space, international residency and workshop has given early platforms to now major names like Tania Bruguera, Sonia Boyce and Subodh Gupta
'Maximum-security society': Julia Scher restages post-9/11 surveillance installation in New York
At the newly expanded Ortuzar Projects, the artist's enduring exploration privacy and spying takes on new meanings in the age of drones and smartphones
'See Stop Run': Christopher Wool's flashback to DIY, gritty 1970s New York
The American artist has staged an independent exhibition in an unoccupied space in the heart of Manhattan's financial district
Subversive stitch: textile shows across UK unravel histories and weave new tales
From Lubaina Himid's colonial cotton at the Holburne Museum to a group survey at the Barbican, the once maligned medium is in the spotlight
Crisis vs utopia: New York shows of Richard Mosse and James Welling take photography to its limits
Exhibitions at Jack Shainman and David Zwirner present very different ways of taking the medium beyond the visible world
Martin Creed's full-throttle London pub performance reminds us that music is central to the maximalist maestro's career
Martin Creed and His Band blasted away the January blues, playing to a packed room this month
Diamond Stingily thinks outside the sandbox at Greene Naftali in New York
The artist conceived of the funereal show during a year in which both her mother and grandmother died
New displays at Imperial War Museum come at a crucial time for world peace
The London museum's thematic approach to conflict references current conflicts as well as historic ones
At 52 Walker, Kayode Ojo raids Amazon.com to create a Modernist Eden
The rising star has created a luxe product paradise for the New York gallery
Tate Britain invites you to eat the patriarchy—literally
For the museum's landmark survey of British feminist art, Bobby Baker has reconstructed her 1976 edible work of a life-sized family made from cake and biscuits
A transparent show for a transphobic world: performance artist Puppies Puppies exhibits herself in a glass box for four months
The artist has recreated her bedroom and studio in the lobby of Manhattan's New Museum for a durational work grounded in activism
Marina Abramović passes the baton on to a new generation of performers
A group of London shows, performances and events organised around the pioneering artist sees her extend her legacy
The Bloomsbury Group, re-examined through their garments
A new book and UK exhibition by Charlie Porter explores the sartorial choices of Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and the rest of the Charleston set
Nairy Baghramian's playful forms grace the facade of New York's Metropolitan Museum
The artist is the fourth to receive the museum's commission to install work on the Fifth Avenue entrance of its Neoclassical building
'A poster child for a mismanaged career': Gagosian opens first posthumous show of Ashley Bickerton
The Barbadian-born American artist, who died last year, created 15 new works for an exhibition based on snapshots of family and friends
Lactating breasts and farting bottoms: unruly bodies run rampant in exhibitions across London
Our leaky, creaky, capricious corporeal vessels are the subject of shows at Somerset House, Goldsmith's CCA and the Design Museum
Poisonous plants and an animatronic bear: Precious Okoyomon fills Roman chapel with a garden of unearthly delights
The New York-based artist's ability to balance the horrifying with the restorative reaches a mad-genius peak at Sant’Andrea de Scaphis