Crossed wires – the strange music of Tarek Atoui
At his best, the Beirut-born artist offers gallery-goers weird and wonderful new ways of experiencing sound
The radical experiments of Yoko Ono
The artist’s vast body of work is full of daring conceits and tantalising contradictions
By Lake Lugano, two painters who really saw the light
Giacomo Balla and Piero Dorazio worked nearly 50 years apart, but a dazzling show reveals their shared interest in capturing sensations
The Brazilian artists who believed in leisure – and wanted to change the world
The film-maker Neville d’Almeida recalls his friendship with Hélio Oiticica and how they broke down the barriers between work and play and between film and art
This year’s Turner Prize nominees display a weariness with institutions
The shortlisted artists highlight the fragility of the existing order, with the best of them upending what we expect from a show in a gallery
Blown up: Yayoi Kusama goes big in Manchester
The city’s newest and largest arts space provides ample room for the artist’s large-scale inflatables, but it’s not all about size
Sonia Boyce gets musical in Margate
The artist takes her Golden Lion-winning work celebrating the extraordinary achievements of Black women in music from Venice to the English seaside
The Turner Prize plays it safe this year
The four nominees for this year’s prize are presenting their biggest, brightest work but not all of it is saying very much
For Lawrence Abu Hamdan, music makes a mockery of borders
The sound artist and ‘private ear’ talks to Apollo about his new film commission in Bristol, set in a library that straddles the US-Canadian border
‘You look for your own art history’ – an interview with Isaac Julien
The artist tells Apollo how his new film for the Barnes Foundation weaves together restitution debates with the history of the Harlem Renaissance
Pressing the flesh – an interview with Dorothy Cross
The sculptor used to make work made out of meat, but although she now uses marble she is still fascinated by processes of decay
‘I have to fight for the corner of film’ – an interview with Tacita Dean
The British artist has consistently used film as a means of making a statement about painting. But now her chosen medium is urgently in need of saving
This year’s Turner Prize nominees are all doing valuable work – but why compare them?
The shortlisted collectives are more interested in what takes place outside the museum – so considering them for an art prize seems besides the point
The Apollo 40 Under 40 Art & Tech in focus: Joey Holder
The artist talks to Robert Barry about her ongoing exploration of the deep sea – and explains why her work is more utopian than it seems
Bye, Robot: a farewell to Daft Punk
Daft Punk weren’t always robots – but it’s how they’ll be remembered
From the ridiculous to the sublime – Bruce Nauman at Tate Modern, reviewed
This career-spanning survey presents an artist whose work consistently teeters between the absurd and the poetic
Sounds of silence – an interview with Oliver Beer
Oliver Beer’s sound installations reveal a music that was already quietly present
Photo realism – an interview with Alfredo Jaar
The Chilean-born artist talks about his ambivalent attitude towards photography and his utopian feelings about art
Dragging out the HDMI cable – how to watch video art at home
Moving-image work seems particularly suited to our increasingly online existences
Benedict Drew’s new film gives form to the anxiety of modern life
Currently on view at the Science Gallery London, The Bad Feel Loops is a nervous, nerve-wracking piece of work
A haunting resurrection of the man who invented jazz
New Orleans bandleader Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden cuts an enigmatic figure in John Akomfrah’s elegiac film
Yuko Mohri unwinds at Camden Arts Centre
The artist’s new sound installation involving solenoids, sensors and tropical fish is surprisingly decorative
‘A visceral assault on the senses’
Bridget Riley’s monumental abstract paintings are as mysterious as they are mesmerising
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Can contemporary art really make us laugh?
Funny peculiar or funny haha? Perhaps some of the artists who seem a bit obscure are actually trying to make us laugh