The commission for the controversial Unravel show reflects geopolitical themes

Artists Yto Barrada and Cian Dayrit will remove their work from major textile survey, after two collectors withdraw their loans over centre's decision to not host talk on Palestine and the Holocaust

Quilts by Loretta Pettway have been removed from a major textile survey at the London institution over accusations of “censorship and repression”

Devyani Saltzman is new arts director at City of London venue while Nicole Yip replaces Robert Leckie in Bristol

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

Purple Hibiscus will be unveiled in April as part of a new exhibition at the gallery

Plus, Michelangelo at the Albertina in Vienna and Julianknxx at the Barbican in London

The Indian curator, appointed a year after a racism dispute at the centre, hopes to diversify audiences and expand the presence of art across the Brutalist complex

Ahead of her largest European show to date, the artist tells us why her early work focused on her family and how she grew to embrace large-scale installation

The man behind the infamous Instagram account @freeze_magazine shows his meme creations at the Barbican

A show shaped by refugees and immigrants who made new lives on British shores has a war-stained resonance with today

An exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery explores the wealth of creativity that took place as Britain recovered from trauma and upheaval

From Shilpa Gupta's tribute to dissident writers to the UK debut of influential Georgian painter Karlo Kacharava

Former BBC culture editor Will Gompertz steps into joint managing director role with Sandeep Dwesar

A new season of experimental cinema has opened at the Barbican showing works made by drawing, painting, scratching and otherwise messing about with the surface of film

First UK survey in 50 years examines the artist's relationship with Art Brut and Brutalism, finding a fitting home at London's Barbican

Despite a £1.57bn pot, an algorithm-based grant-making process and complex criteria have left some major institutions empty-handed

From Raisa Kabir's transcontinental textiles to Toyin Ojih Odutola's epic cycle of queer, Black drawings

From David Hockney's portraits to a photography show radically rethinking masculinity

Sweeping photography show will shine a light on the fluid and plural nature of what it means to be a man

We look back at some of the best shows this year

US artist’s new show at the Barbican continues his exploration into how artificial intelligence is shaping how organisations control us

From a major survey of Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner at the Barbican, to rooftop sculptures at Bold Tendencies in Peckham

Exhibition continues the re-evaluation of the Abstract Expressionist who spent too long in the shadow of husband Jackson Pollock

A wave of innovative exhibition design has graced our museums in recent years. What are the keys to holding the viewer’s gaze?

From Anni Albers' textile masterclass at Tate Modern, to an exploration of artist couples at the Barbican

The New Zealand-born artist’s show at the Barbican Art Gallery reflects her diverse approach to materials, including a rare Brazilian rubber called balata

From Christo’s huge floating sculpture in Hyde Park to the intimacy of Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe at the Victoria and Albert Museum

New show explores 40 romantic and artistic partnerships of the 20th century