This week I interview Daina Taimina, a Latvian mathematician, math historian, and artist. Born in Riga, Taimina is currently an Associate Professor at Cornell University in the US, where she uses crocheted models to teach hyperbolic geometry
What part did black artists play in America’s civil rights struggle? They reinvented Superman and took a seven-mile artwork through Harlem. As the Tate tackles this tumultuous era with Soul of a Nation, we meet the show’s star attractions
For Sgt Pepper’s 50th anniversary, the great psychedelic visionary of feminist art has created a giant mop-top mural inspired by Fixing a Hole – a song that sums up what she has spent her entire career doing
The main show is a woolly walk through hand-wringing hippydom and flowerpot trainers. But elsewhere, the biennale bares its teeth in works of danger and daring
Venice Agendas 2017: The Contract. A programme of events in London, Venice, Margate and Folkestone.
Landscapes at night, a hallucinatory road trip, ghetto life after the LA riots and a dead pet … our critic weighs the contenders
In the dark days of the 1980s, ravers in Sheffield discovered politics, pirate radio and MDMA. Mark Fell explains why he’s channelling Heidegger for his installation on an infamous Sheffield estate
Smart-phone bound I get to visit a series of over 40 art locations and top up on my culture fix.
A merciless graphic novel imagines what would happen if Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley were dropped on Afghanistan. Its creator explains his hallucinatory romp
The young founders of #arthoe are encouraging people of colour to get creative while reclaiming the word ‘ho’. They talk about hashtag wars, their controversial name – and why it’s more than just a fad
Everyone from Ai Weiwei and Frank Gehry to Zaha Hadid has designed a folly for the Serpentine gallery, but what happens to these starchitect baubles after their summer in the sun?
In the 1960s and 70s, countries across Africa celebrated their independence with astonishingly avant-garde architecture. Oliver Wainwright reports on a fascinating attempt to chronicle this forgotten history
• Afro modernism: Africa’s avant-garde architecture boom – in pictures
Manchester’s Whitworth gallery was never the most welcoming building. But a £15m revamp has breathed new air and light into the venerable institution
Welcome to the end of the information superhighway – a ‘data farm’ in the midwest. When Google refused to let artist John Gerrard photograph it, he hired a chopper and decided to beat them at their own game
‘What have I sacrificed? A white Transit van. I had it crushed into a cube and turned into art’
Decapitations, tooth-pullings, chargrillings … the lurid deaths of saints in paintings were what caught Michael Landy’s eye when he took over as artist-in-residence at the National Gallery. Charlotte Higgins visits his studio to play with his mechanised martyrs
The Deutsche Börse Photography prize show draws on Google, space travel and Bertolt Brecht – but one artist stands head and shoulders above the rest
As a child he was mocked for his love of model railways. Now Welsh artist Bedwyr Williams is at the Venice Biennale with his tribute to amateur astronomists. Stuart Jeffries meets a champion of the hobbyist
Liz Crow appeared on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth dressed as a Nazi. This week, she’s living the most private part of her life in a gallery. Here she explains why
When Hollywood stars like Jim Carrey and Nicolas Cage started buying Marcel Dzama’s work, what did the Canadian artist do? Apply for a job at Walmart. He didn’t get it
Fabrice Hyber has filled the Baltic with vegetable men, mini-weather systems and a salt mountain. Is he just trifling with us?
New York art provocateurs Bernadette Corporation tell Jason Farago the key to running a successful collective: dress for work, learn proper manners – and keep your hands to yourself
