Claire Armitstead

Sunshine beams down on Bexhill's De La Warr Pavilion for the first time since Barbara Kasten arrived to install her first institutional solo show in the UK.

The 88-year-old Chicago artist takes photography to a whole new level – as her new East Sussex show, which uses fluorescent panels to sculpt with colour, proves

Mentored by Jacques Derrida, his memoir about taking hormones broke new ground. Now, Presciado’s radical cinematic riff on Virginia Woolf’s novel explores a life spent defying the gender binary

As a play of the Nobel prize-winner’s memoir The Years opens in the UK, the actors playing her at different ages – including Deborah Findlay, Gina McKee and Romola Garai – talk about what the work means to them

Fiona Shaw, Adrian Lester, Toby Jones and more explore the refugee experience in an intriguing multimedia show

As she confronts the ecological crisis and the persecution of the Yazidi people in her latest novel, the author talks about the difficulty of being a writer – and a woman – in Turkey

In Hussain’s debut feature, Ayub plays Adam, a mixed-race night worker in a service station fast-food outlet grappling with his identity. They talk about their shared heritage, sci-fi and getting into film

LONDON (The Guardian) — In Elif Shafak’s latest novel, a single raindrop rises and falls through millennia. In Nineveh, in the seventh century BC, it lands on the scalp of Ashurbanipal, a king whose obsession with building a great library saves the Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh from destruction for blasphemy; in 19th-century Constantinople, it lands on Arthur, who has just arrived on an official mission to find a missing section of the epic, depicting a pre-biblical flood. It reappears as the last drop of water in a bottle that terrified 21st-century Yazidis carry with them on their flight from slaughter into the parched mountains of Iraq.

The artist has a studio attached to a morgue in Mexico City and uses fluids from corpses to make art. She talks about her latest project – placing the face casts of trans people in a giant cube in Trafalgar Square

Teresa Margolles is standing in a warehouse on the Thames estuary, surrounded by large boxes marked “Frágil”. They have come from Mexico, holding