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‘Precious Strength: Maria Pergay Across the Decades’ is on show at New York gallery Demisch Danant (until 30 November)

Anne Buckwalter’s exhibition, ‘I Will Clean the Closet, I Will Climb the Stairs’, is a happy marriage of mundanity and lust; see it at San Francisco’s Rebecca Camacho Presents

Installation by artist Luke Jerram has ‘brought joy and astonishment’ in recent days, drawing 10,000 visitors to Bridgwater Docks

Made up of hundreds of discarded toys, household items, broken cables and bits of plastic, Cameroonian artist Malam’s giant head-shaped sculptures are deceptively playful. Invited to the Also Known as Africa contemporary art and design fair (AKAA) in Paris, the artist says his installations are in fact a harsh critique…

In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the TV host and collector shares her ‘daggy’ stationery – and her childhood obsession with Humphrey Bogart

The industrial building, originally used to make charcoal, has been minimally restored and adapted into a stunning home

She was better known as the wife of the artist Eric Ravilious, but the first major exhibition of Garwood’s visionary work is set to change that

The artist was notorious for being shocking, provocative and macabre… and that’s just his interviews

Life and creative partners Brett Gui Xin and Del Hardin Hoyle from Outgoing blur the lines between craft and concept in experimental designs that have the potential for greater application

Outside of LACMA, MOCA and The Broad, these independent LA galleries are major players in the art world