Tom Morton is a writer, curator and contributing editor of frieze, based in Rochester, UK.
The artist’s oversized flowers at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, address ideas of inheritance and nurture
Artists and writers, including Huw Lemmey and John Smith, select their favourite programmes from the broadcaster’s history
At Newport Street Gallery, London, the artist performatively burnt thousands of his own works
The artist’s first solo exhibition at David Zwirner, London, absorbs us into single, intimate moments
A new exhibition at Goldsmiths CCA, London, invites 47 artists to propose solutions to that reliably problematic artform, the monument
At Seventeen, London, a group show engineered by Joey Holder and Omsk Social Club presents itself as a creepy ‘Squid Game’-esque clinic
At Sprüth Magers in London, the artist’s robotic snake is a harbinger of destruction and regeneration
Capturing moments of stillness and anticipation, at Workplace, London, the artist uses layers of stippled colours to conjure never-ending narratives
With shades of the flâneur, the artist wanders the German philosopher’s rural retreat at Todtnauberg in a new series of short films
From ‘Spaceballs’ to ‘The Orville’, the reason why so many interstellar sitcoms fail to raise a smile
Paywalls are going up everywhere, intellectual property is being jealously hoarded, and the long-predicted streaming wars are finally on
Some suggestions for the International Council of Museums
This year, all the shortlisted artists were named joint winners – what to make of this act of (institutionally approved) subversion?
In an exhibition at Focal Point Gallery, the artist looks to the local marshes of Canvey Island with a weird degree of hope
To expect the progressive, internationalist art world to participate in a celebration of Brexit is to fire a volley into the culture war
A new spirit of bleak realism and self-questioning has infiltrated comic adaptations everywhere
‘What our descendants will make of this object depends on what survives of us’
Lisson Gallery at Store Studios, London, UK
South London Gallery, UK
Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
