Studio International: Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Studio International

With a riot of vibrant colours, German expressionist painter and printmaker Emil Nolde brings to life flowers and gardens, dancers and cabaret singers, and people of all different types and races

Cherry Pickles. Self-Portrait as William S Burroughs, 2014. Oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm.

Women Can’t Paint: Part 1

The title of the exhibition comes from a statement made in 2013 by Georg Baselitz, the German artist who sometimes hangs his large canvases upside down.

Philip K Smith III, Open Sky, Installation view, Palazzo Isimbardi, Milan. Photograph: Lance Gerber. Courtesy of the artist and Cos.

Phillip K Smith III: ‘The earth and the sky are the things that bind us’

As he prepares to mount an illusionistic new installation in Milan, the American space and light artist talks time, technology and theatricality.

Wasp

Taking its name from Andrea Arnold’s award-winning short film Wasp, this group exhibition of 10 female artists is a satisfyingly reflective experience.

Miguel Chevalier talking to Studio International in his Paris studio, February 2018. Photograph: Martin Kennedy.

Miguel Chevalier: ‘I feel that I live in what’s happening today’

Ahead of two simultaneous solo shows in London, pioneering computer artist Miguel Chevalier invited Studio International into his Paris studio to discuss his interest in making the real virtual and the virtual real.

Andrzej Wróblewski

The spectre of conflict haunts the powerfully enigmatic oeuvre of one of Poland’s pre-eminent postwar artists, at long last the subject of a solo exhibition in the UK.

Paul Brown. Gymnasts, 1997. Giclée print, 31.5 x 23.62 in. © the artist.

Paul Brown: Process, Chance and Serendipity: Art That Makes Itself

These radical works by Paul Brown highlight the wonders of computer programming in the realm of art-making.

Sofia Borges. Yellow Chalk, 2017. Pigmented inkjet print, 90 9/16 × 59 1/16 in (230 × 150 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Fund for the Twenty-First Century. © 2018 Sofia Borges.

Being: New Photography 2018

Iteration 2018 of MoMA’s biennial sampling of what’s trending in photography rethinks both the meaning of what it is to be human and the essential nature of the medium itself.

Marino Marini. Fondazione Marini Marini.

Marino Marini: Visual Passions

At the home of his iconic equestrian sculpture, The Angel of the City, this retrospective of the Italian sculptor Marino Marini explores the breadth of his practice and range of his influences.

Lilah Fowler: nth nature

The exhibition nth nature, a new body of work by Lilah Fowler, explores feelings of transience and dissociation in response to increasingly pervasive networks of global transport and communication.

Ingela Ihrman. The Giant Hogweed, 2016. Paper, reed, glue, textile, spray paint, plastic, nylon string, ratchet strap. Courtesy Cooper Gallery, DJCAD and Ingela Ihrman.

Ingela Ihrman: We Thrive

The Swedish artist’s works and her theatrical pieces – which include a giant hogweed, a giant otter giving birth and a toad doing gymnastics – make us look at the human race’s relationship with the natural world and the effects our interactions have.

David Hockney. Tall Dutch Trees After Hobbema (Useful Knowledge), 2017. Acrylic on six canvases (two canvases: 36 x 36 in, four joined canvases: 24 x 48 in) overall installation dimensions 64 x 144 in (162.6 cm x 365.8 cm). Photograph courtesy Pace Gallery. © 2018 David Hockney.

David Hockney: Something New in Painting (and Photography) [and even Printing]

Coming off Hockney’s stunning retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrating his 80th birthday, this new body of work proposes to resolve the artist’s lifetime pursuit of accurate perspective with a radical new way to authentically see.

José Parlá in residence at Landmarks, the public art programme of The University of Texas at Austin, 2017. Photograph: Rey Parlá.

José Parlá: ‘It challenges me to work against the grain of the status quo’

For his most ambitious project to date, commissioned by the Landmarks public art programme at the University of Texas at Austin, Parlá transforms a 4,000-sq-foot site into a panoramic landscape evocative of Austin’s natural and urban environment.

E.E.Cummings. Sound, 1919. Oil on canvas, 89.2 x 88.9 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. © The Estate of E.E.Cummings.

America’s Cool Modernism: O’Keeffe to Hopper

As the US charged headlong into the 20th century, as its cities grew skywards and consumerism began to bubble up like the champagne at Jay Gatsby’s parties, some of modernism’s biggest names stood back and took stock. And the world they depicted was a surprisingly silent one.

Interiority, 2018. Installation view, Hunter/Whitfield, London.

Clementine Keith-Roach: ‘I think of domestic objects and furniture as physical extensions of our body’

The artist and set designer discusses casting her mother’s breasts for one of her nipple urns, breast milk for bodybuilders and the problematics of bodies and economies.

Rie Nakajima, Cyclic, installation view, Ikon, Birmingham, 21 March – 3 June 2018. Photograph: Martin Kennedy.

Rie Nakajima: ‘What I am making is to be experienced through your body, through your perception and through your sense’

Japanese artist Rie Nakajima’s practice sees everyday objects turned into semi-autonomous mechanisms that come alive in the most inventive ways.

William Crozier. (Untitled) Landscape, 1958. Oil on board, 97 x 71.5 cm. Private collection courtesy Piano Nobile, London.

William Crozier: The Edge of Landscape

Working in the shadow of the second world war, the nuclear threat and the Irish Troubles, Crozier’s work confirms that life is merciless. Yet even at its most desolate, there is a vitality to it, a forceful wildness that shines through in his electric soup of colours.

Man in makeup wearing ring. Photograph from a photo booth, with highlights of colour. United States, c1920. © Sébastien Lifshitz Collection. Courtesy of Sébastien Lifshitz and The Photographers’ Gallery.

Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross-Dressers

Based on found photographs collected by French film-maker Sébastien Lifshitz, this exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery examines the historical notion of cross-dressing, but in concentrating on a binary way of thinking, it has missed a trick.

Michele Oka Doner talking to Studio International at the opening of Bringing the Fire, David Gill Gallery, London, 21 March 2018. Photograph: Martin Kennedy.

Michele Oka Doner: ‘We can’t repair the Earth if we don’t fall in love with it’

American artist and author Michele Oka Doner shares some of her explorations of nature and ritual from across her five decade-long practice.

Linder. She/She (detail), 1981, printed 2007. 14 photographs, black and white, silver bromide print, on paper, 70.7 x 61.2 cm. Tate. © Linder.

Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired By Her Writings

The great modernist writer serves as a presiding spirit in an inclusive, multifarious group show, displayed in the town that triggered her childhood imagination.

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Two Women at a Window, 1655-1660. Oil on canvas, 125.1 × 104.5 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Murillo: The Self-Portraits

A small number of Murillo’s rare portraits are brought together at the National Gallery to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the artist’s birth. But what can the only two self-portraits he painted tell us of the man himself?.

Helen and Kate Storey: Neurogenesis – From Neuron Birth to All That We Are

An interdisciplinary and collaborative exhibition that fuses art, fashion and cell imaging to share fascinating scientific insights into what it means to be human.

Creativity and Collaboration: Revisiting Cybernetic Serendipity

The two-day colloquium Creativity and Collaboration: Revisiting Cybernetic Serendipity, which explored how a combination of art, design, science, engineering and medical research can yield productive partnerships, was preceded by a one-day symposium where students from a wide range of disciplines presented their work.

John Walter. The Shonky Bar. Photograph: Ruth Clark.

Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness

Guest curated by John Walter, as part of the Hayward Gallery’s Touring Curatorial Open, this vibrant and subversive group show is kaleidoscopic and entertaining, as well as intellectually stimulating.

Cécile B. Evans. Amos’ World, 2017: Episode One. Exhibition view, mumok, 2018. © mumok. Photograph: Klaus Pichler.

Cécile B Evans: Amos’ World: Episode One

Cecile B Evans’s video transports us into the surreal world of an architect who believes he can build both a housing complex and a social structure. And by forcing viewers to watch from a dark cubbyhole, she draws us visually and physically into his world.

Lee Lozano. No title, 1964. © The Estate of Lee Lozano. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.

Lee Lozano: Slip, Slide, Splice

A major figure on the New York art scene of the 1960s and early 70s, Lozano is not so well known these days. This new exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh – featuring expressive and fascinating paintings, drawings and ‘language pieces’ – aims to change that.

Dawn Mellor. Detective Superintendent Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman), 2016. Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in. © the artist.

Dawn Mellor: ‘It is not surprising that activism and resentments due to economics, class, racism and gender are emerging’

The artist best-known for her parodic portraits of celebrities talks about taking a year of from painting, exploring social media and satirising identity politics.

Chiahru Shiota in the chapel at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Photograph: Veronica Simpson.

Chiharu Shiota: Beyond Time

Using 2,000 balls of thread, Chiharu Shiota’s installation of white woollen webbing in the chapel at Yorkshire Sculpture Park drifts up from floor to ceiling, twisting around and drawing you in to the spirit of the place.

Current day Sainsbury Centre, 2009. Photograph: © Sainsbury Centre, Pete
Huggins.

SUPERSTRUCTURES: The New Architecture 1960-1990

Forty years after it opened, the Sainsbury Centre plays host to an exhibition looking at the pioneering designs of architects such as Norman Foster and Richard Rogers in the latter half of the last century.

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Japanese dancer Masako Ono of Odissi dance form. Photograph: Jill Spalding.

Panorama Punjab

Committed to placing this marginalised sector of India in the light once again, film-maker Sarah Singh has given Punjab its first international arts festival, a phoenix of contemporary and traditional creative expression, arisen in Patiala in front of the mighty Qila Mubarak to jumpstart a new dialogue between its warrior-arts past and socially driven cultural future.

Cecil Beaton. Pablo Picasso, rue La Boétie, 1933, Paris. © The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s

Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy

Despite passages of naked voyeurism, the Tate’s blockbuster intoxicates with passion, power and the pleasure of unbound creativity.

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