Adrian Searle encounters
A fortnightly column in which the Guardian's critic gets intimate with every aspect of the art world
Through the trap door: Tino Sehgal's mesmerising mind maze
Adrian Searle goes beyond the beaded curtain into a theatrical world of flooded rooms and whispering strangers at the Palais de Tokyo
Silicon nightmare: it's lonely work in Yuri Pattison's ghost office
Lights flicker, shelves gather dust and cables twist like snakes – all that’s missing from this high-tech workspace are workers, leaving you feeling like a lab rat in a maze
Wake up and smell the Manifesta: piles of poo and a look inside Houellebecq's head
The art biennial known for pushing boundaries of taste has outdone itself in Zurich, sculpting a day’s worth of excrement, medically exhibiting the French author and making a Paralympic champion wheelchair on water
Nothing to see here: the artist giving gallery staff a month off work
German artist Maria Eichhorn has closed a London gallery and sent all its staff home – an empty gesture or a profound critique of our working lives?
From Marx to Brexit: Tyneside's AV festival paints the whole world red
Socialism is the theme of this year’s multimedia festival, with George Orwell, the Jarrow Crusade and a worrying Muscovite blogger among its inspirations
John Akomfrah's Vertigo Sea: human and natural history meet at the abyss
Recurring images of historical horrors – from slave killings to drowning migrants – are cut with nature in Akomfrah’s new video installations in Bristol and London. Past and present dissolve, leaving us stranded, waiting for the future
An ashtray for President Tito: after the fall, the staying power of Yugoslav art
The UK’s largest-ever show of art from communist Yugoslavia has plenty to say about the purpose and political usefulness of culture today
Tightrope Walk: the show that sums up art in 67 paintings
As De Keyser’s last works brood at the David Zwirner, a sweeping account of modern painting from Chris Ofili’s sexual fireworks to Lucian Freud’s meaty closeups lights up London’s White Cube
The last picture show: how Chantal Akerman's suicide alters her final artwork
The Belgian film-maker took her own life a month ago, and her final installation is full of painfully private moments and hauntingly empty scenes. But it’s full of life too – in all its extraordinary ordinariness
Charlotte Prodger's elegy to time, loss and casual sex
Nina Simone on the edge, sex at a trucking stop, land art and a coffin road: the artist’s new film Stoneymollan Trail is like stepping inside another person’s brain. What a moving, perplexing experience
Pioneer of perversity: Pierre Molinier's extreme exposures
High-heeled, corseted, impaled, auto-fellating ... Molinier’s fantasy photographs open a window on a forbidden world – and have made him a cult figure. Do not try this at home
Morbid monsters and the Ku Klux Klan: the crude cartoonish genius of Philip Guston
Guston, who would have been 102 this week, lives on in artwork so gruesome and squalid it makes many of today’s painters look flimsy
Horribly compelling: Bruce Conner's nuclear test film still holds us in rapture
As we watch Crossroads, we collude in a chilling event despite ourselves
Adrian Searle encounters: Roni Horn's mysterious drawings that just won't leave you alone
Words and names erupt from nowhere like a William Burroughs cut-up, clouds collide and paper seems to mutate into abstract sculpture before your very eyes in this major exhibition of the American artist’s drawings
Nazis, cake and the Wizard of Oz: a drawing show with a difference
We are invited to make up stories to connect the disparate, uneasy – and sometimes funny – drawings of Andrzej Wróblewski, René Daniëls and Luc Tuymans
Carol Bove's seductive sculptures force us to confront our inner animal
Using everything from 30-million-year-old trees to white loop the loops, Bove’s easy-on-the-eye artworks could easily be plopped down in a corporate plaza. But they’re so much more intriguing than that
If there’s a joke, it’s on us: Juan Muñoz’s playful optical illusions
Fourteen years after the Spanish artist’s death, a retrospective of his dramatic installations, full of strange grey figures, shows he’s still toying with us
Mad, magical and mesmerising: Gusmão + Paiva's labyrinth of silent films
Portuguese artists have transformed a London gallery into a whirring maze of silent films and optical tricks to get lost in
Art among the ruins: Danh Vo's perverse empires
Danh Vo was rescued at sea aged four as his family fled Vietnam. Now, he’s an expert arranger of flotsam and jetsam ... from crates of Carnation milk to a Madonna possessed by the devil and Queen Victoria’s puppy Looty, writes Adrian Searle
Jockum Nordström's art: sex, secrets and shame in an age of innocence
From the figures who smoke pipes and wear frock coats to the couples that copulate behind closed doors, Nordström’s prurient pictures belong to an old-fashioned age. Adrian Searle peeps through the keyhole
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