From Glenn Ligon’s first solo exhibition in Italy, at Thomas Dane Gallery, to a unique project in an ancient Roman aqueduct

The novelist explored Jewish identity in the US through a lens of frustrated heterosexuality

Mo Salah’s football boots enter the British Museum; Maggi Hambling’s whiffy advice for skipping gallery crowds: the latest in art world silliness

Provincial landscapes mask creeping violence in three new novels by Emma Glass, Sophie Mackintosh and Fiona Mozley 

At Museo Jumex, Mexico City, a dense survey of work disrupting oppressive power dynamics in formerly colonized regions

A surprising show of silhouettes at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. sheds light on obscure chapters of US history 

The increasingly reclusive artist, whose stacked LOVE design became one of the 20th century’s most reproduced images, has passed away at t

‘I spend more time being seduced by the void … as a way of energizing my language’: poet Wayne Koestenbaum speaks about his new book

In further news: white supremacist vandals attack Rothko Chapel; Israeli minister bans art produced in solidarity with Palestinian victims

Informed by her heritage, the Athens-based artist reflects on technology’s gradual erosion of social relations at Spike Island, Bristol 

To experience the music of the composer, who passed away last week at the age of 69, was to hear something tense, physical, almost pugilistic

Mark Coetzee, the director of Africa's largest contemporary art museum, resigns following investigation into abusive behaviour