Studio International: Visual Arts, Design and Architecture

After the commotion of the heist, the recently ended exhibition, Victory is not an Option, at Blenheim Palace and a new publicity stunt beg the question of where Cattelan might go next

Photo: Oliviero Toscani & Maurizio Cattelan.

Berenice Carrington. Photo: Herbert Palmer.

Berenice Carrington: ‘I think of the naturalistic style of my drawing as empathetic realism’

The artist, who describes her work as ethnographic drawing, explains how her practice began when she worked with Aboriginal people in Australia and draws similarities between that continent and Shetland, where she now lives.

Larissa Sansour – interview: ‘That is often what identity and trauma does to you: you become stuck in an idea that you can’t get out of without losing yourself’

The Palestinian artist unravels some of the layers of In Vitro, her science-fiction film now showing in the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and relates it to our present – unsettling – reality.

David Smith: Field Work

This is a compelling show that reminds us that, though known best for his welded-steel sculptures, Smith identified as a painter.

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Kudzanai-Violet Hwami in her studio at Gasworks, London, 2019.

Kudzanai-Violet Hwami - interview: ‘How I identify isn’t what pushes me to create. I create because I cannot do anything else’

The Zimbabwe-born, London-based artist talks about her new work for her solo show at Gasworks in London and why her paintings for this year’s Venice Biennale almost reduced her to tears.

Lucian Freud. Reflection (Self-portrait), 1985. Oil on canvas, 55.9 x 55.3 cm. Private collection, on loan to the Irish Museum of Modern Art. © The Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images.

Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits

This exhibition of self-portraits across seven decades shows the artist at his most vulnerable.

Mark Bradford, A five thousand year old laugh, 2019. Mixed media on canvas, 182.9 x 243.8 cm / 72 x 96 in. © Mark Bradford. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Joshua White.

Mark Bradford: Cerberus

In his first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London, the LA-based artist looks into the past to create an abstract art for the present.

Dame Laura Knight. Dancers, late 1920s. Drawing. © Reproduced with permission of The Estate of Dame Laura Knight DBE RA 2019. All Rights Reserved. Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.

Laura Knight: A Working Life

This small but delightful display, comprising largely sketches from the RA’s collection, beautifully illustrates the key themes of Knight’s working life: the countryside, the nude, and scenes from the theatre, ballet and circus.

Michael Simpson – interview: ‘Every single painting involves an element of fear’

The artist discusses how going to a football match at the age of seven inspired him to start painting, his dislike of organised religion, his rigorous approach to his art and his current new work at Blain Southern.

Portrait of Michael Sherrill, courtesy of the artist. Photo: Scott Allen at Hang the Moon Photography.

Michael Sherrill – interview: ‘I’d call myself a student of art’

Sherrill talks about his current retrospective at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, why he calls himself a “material-based artist”, being influenced by Matisse – and the joy of home-grown tomatoes.

Paul Gauguin, Self Portrait with Yellow Christ, 1890-1891. Oil on canvas, 38.1 x 45.7 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. © RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay). Photo: René-Gabriel Ojéda

Gauguin Portraits

The National Gallery’s autumn blockbuster posits the troublesome post-impressionist firebrand as a revolutionary painter of portraits, concerned with himself even as he painted others.

Sabina, 16 years by Jouk Oosterhof, from the series Invisible, In Focus: Child Brides in Bangladesh, 2018 © Jouk Oosterhof.

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize

This exhibition of photographic portraits from around the world focuses on shifting identities and common humanity.

Yonezawa, Directional Robot, 1957. Private collection. Photo: Andreas Sütterlin.

Hello, Robot: Design Between Human and Machine

From Star Wars’ R2-D2 to a machine that produces compassionate messages for the dying, this is a celebration of robots that also asks timely questions about how we interact with machines, and how we should design our shared future.

Danh Vo, Photographs of Dr. Joseph M. Carrier 1962–1973, 2010 (detail). Installation view at the South London Gallery, 2019. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Nick Ash.

Danh Vo: Untitled

Gathering together constellations of objects and artworks, the Danish artist’s largest UK exhibition thrives on real and imaginary connections.

Katie Paterson, Totality, 2016. Installation view Scottish National
Gallery of Modern Art. Photo © Neil Hanna, 2019.

Now: Katie Paterson, Darren Almond, Shona Macnaughton and Lucy Raven

From Paterson’s exploration of deep time and the cosmos to Almond’s ethereal moonlit photographs, this exhibition focuses on the concept of time.

Bridget Riley

This exhibition of work by the octogenarian painter shows everything from her earliest work to her most recent explorations.

Nam June Paik

The inventiveness and curiosity of Nam June Paik is what shines through in this show of visionary work from throughout his career.

Robyn Beeche, Bauhaus (Spirals), 1986. Inspired by Oskar Schlemmer. Hair by Mitch Barry at Vidal Sassoon, make-up by Phyllis Cohen. Courtesy Robyn Beeche Foundation.

Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus

One hundred years since the founding of the Bauhaus school, this exhibition considers how it influenced the UK’s cultural scene, from film to music and performance art to hairstyles.

Vienna Design Week HQ, 2019. © Vienna Design Week, Kollektiv Fischka – Maria Noisternig.

Vienna Design Week 2019

From buildings to sustainable products to gaming technology, this year’s design festival proved a welcome look at how to care for our beleaguered environment.

Haim Steinbach, hello again, 2013. Photo: Antonio Rivera.

MoMA Triumphant

The restored, expanded MoMA has opened its doors and it is a bold new vision.

Haroon Mirza, Jack Jelfs, Gaika, Draf Evening of Performances, Ministry of Sound, London, 3 October 2019. Photo: William Kennedy.

David Roberts Art Foundation’s Evening of Performances

Haroon Mirza, Jack Jelfs, Gaika and Hannah Perry were among nine international artists performing to a packed house at the London nightclub Ministry of Sound during the city’s Frieze Week. The evening’s event was curated by Louise O’Kelly, founding director of Block Universe.

Leonardo: Experience a Masterpiece

This immersive exhibition, which hopes to persuade viewers to look in depth at Leonardo’s The Virgin of the Rocks, provides insight into the artist’s technique and the story behind the painting.

Edmund de Waal – interview: ‘The great thing about a library is that, as soon as you have made it, people start to use it’

The British artist and author talks about his many exhibitions this year, including his work for the Venice Biennale 2019 in which he turned the idea of the ghetto into a place of hope and possibility.

Anthony Eyton by Sarah Eyton, 2019. © Sarah Eyton.

Anthony Eyton – interview: ‘I’m still dealing with my mother’s early death. That’s what the paintings are about perhaps’

Now 96, remarkably the Royal Academician’s latest show is full of recent paintings, which Frank Auerbach has told him are his most original yet. He talks about his artistic practice, the influence of his mother’s work and how hard he finds it to finish a painting.

Sidsel Meineche Hansen: Welcome to End-Used City

From sex dolls to data harvesting, the artist lays the blame for the digital-human disconnect squarely at our door, with our increasing willingness to allow companies access to our personal data.

Garry Fabian Miller. There is no shadow, 2017. Light, oil, Lambda C-print from dye destruction print, 143.2 x 143.2 cm (framed). Courtesy of the Artist and Ingleby, Edinburgh.

Garry Fabian Miller: Midwinter Blaze

Using early-19th century techniques, Miller works without a camera, experimenting with light to produce mesmerising and haunting images.

Kiki Smith, Cathedral, 2012. Jacquard tapestry © Kiki Smith. Courtesy Timothy Taylor, London/New York and Magnolia Editions.

Kiki Smith: I am a Wanderer

From the dreamlike worlds of her colossal tapestries to her printmaking and the photographs in which she records her own sculptures, this show reveals the multiple threads that weave in and out of her rich, multidisciplinary practice.

Alan Davie. Glory, 1957. Oil paint on canvas. © The Estate of Alan Davie. Private Collection.

Alan Davie and David Hockney: Early Works

An exhibition of work by Alan Davie in Wakefield in 1958 was formative for the young David Hockney and the power of influence is foregrounded in this new exhibition.

George Stubbs, Whistlejacket, c1762. Oil on canvas. © The National Gallery, London.

George Stubbs: All Done from Nature

MK Gallery’s generous survey confirms the Liverpudlian Leonardo’s position as one of the 18th century’s greatest artists, who matched anatomical exactitude with a proto-Romantic spirit.

Luigi Ghirri. Modena, TBD. Vintage c-print, 20 x 29.3 cm (7 7/8 x 11 1/2 in). © Estate of Luigi Ghirri. Courtesy the Estate, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, Los Angeles, and Thomas Dane Gallery.

Luigi Ghirri: Colazione sull’Erba

The haunting microcosm of north Italian suburbia as pictured by the matchless Luigi Ghirri is on display in this show at Thomas Dane Gallery.

Stephen Dean, Vortex, 2008, installation view, Frac Corsica, 2019.

Stephen Dean: Rope and Anne Deleporte: Les Quatorze Meurtrières

Half-a-dozen works by Dean and two by Deleporte make up this stunning double exhibition by the New York-based pair.

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