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Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Reporting from the Front

From the poster image for this six-month-long event to the immersive installations of exquisitely resculpted waste at the entrances to the main buildings, this biennale is all about the architect’s role in solving issues caused by dwindling resources
William Eggleston: Portraits

The first exhibition devoted to the American photographer’s portraiture undersells the works’ beauty, allowing name to triumph over form
Lamia Joreige: ‘Anything you film in a certain reality at a certain moment is a diagnosis of a present’

The artist, one of six finalists included in the Artes Mundi 7 exhibition, talks about her project Objects of War, a collective history of the Lebanese civil war, and her newer “poetic essays” exploring neighbourhoods in Beirut through film, photography,…
Niki de Saint Phalle: Je Suis Une Vache Suisse

Despite traumatic experiences early on in life, Niki de Saint Phalle produced vivacious, playful and exuberant works, proof that creativity can emerge from destruction
Alfredo Jaar: A Logo for America

The first UK screening of Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar’s iconic work, A Logo for America, at London’s Piccadilly Circus. It was first shown in New York’s Times Square in 1987, and again in 2014.
Tate Modern Switch House

After more than a decade and over £250m in funds, Tate Modern’s new sibling has opened its doors, displaying an exhilarating approach to accessibility, flexibility and curatorial innovation
Watteau’s Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France

Offering the quiet thrill of a cool oasis in the park, the Frick Collection has mounted a connoisseur show of little-known work by a master of his time that both instructs and refreshes
Peter Howson: A Survey of Prints

This retrospective of prints produced over four decades by Scottish artist Peter Howson, one-time member of the New Glasgow Boys and a former war artist, provides an interesting parallel with his paintings
This is a Voice

This intriguing exhibition attempts to capture the elusive nature of the human voice, with live performances by sound artists, demonstrations, paintings and medical illustrations. Curator Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz tells Studio International about the show
Diane Arbus: in the beginning

Burnished by a brilliant installation, this early work shows the storied American photographer already fully in control of the technique and vision that were to so greatly influence generations of artists to come
Ragnar Kjartansson

The Icelandic artist’s first UK survey exhibition serves up a palimpsest of delights that gives contemporary performance art a good name
Stuart Davis: In Full Swing

Showcasing his work from 1921 to his death in 1964, this exhibition allows the visitor to fully appreciate the artist’s interest in going back through his older sketches and paintings to find inspiration
Tim Slade: ‘The whole point about erasure is to allow you to pretend that nothing has happened’

The Destruction of Memory charts the global loss of historic artefacts through war and terrorism. It is a film that Slade hopes will change the way governments and policy-makers view such cultural vandalism
Mariko Mori: ‘The ring is a symbol of oneness, completeness and eternity’

The artist talks about her mission to place site-specific artworks honouring nature on the six habitable continents, and her involvement with the cultural programme of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Francesca Pasquali: ‘I have a contemporary view of art, so I want to draw materials from the world around me’

The Bolognese artist uses everyday materials and plastics to replicate natural folds and textures in a manner akin to the ideas of arte povera. Currently in London for two exhibitions, she speaks to Studio International about her inspirations and aspirations
Marie Yates: ‘In my view, everything is textual, and a text is visual’

A woman artist working conceptually with the landscape since the 1970s, Yates’s work has often been misinterpreted. A new exhibition at Richard Saltoun will hopefully reengage viewers in the relevant discourse
Geoffrey Rigden 1943-2016

Much here is from his house or studio, with a number of paintings stretched up for the first time since the artist died in January. Mystical and ritualistic, yet irreverent, these are a taster of Rigden’s work
Jennifer Wen Ma – interview: ‘Throughout history, humans have been trying to break into or out of a paradise or utopia’

The artist talks about her new installation, Molar, at Cass Sculpture Foundation, created as a place of reflection on a disintegrating utopia
Claire Shea: ‘We were really keen to look at an expanded definition of sculpture’

Studio International spoke to the foundation’s curatorial director, Claire Shea, about the concepts behind its first international group exhibition, comparing the differing landscape aesthetics and exploring the wider socio-political context in which the artists are working.
David Hockney RA: 82 Portraits and 1 Still Life

The brightly coloured faces lining the walls of this exhibition show a human fascination with people. Hockney is the lens through which these images have been captured, the characters are the story of his life
Philip Hunter: ‘I’ve developed an approach to painting that emulates the act of walking through a terrain and exploring it firsthand’

The Australian artists talks about the influence of Sidney Nolan, his most recent body of works, Geophonics, his interest in landscape and in events that happen below the Earth’s crust
Rana Begum: ‘I love using readymade materials in the work’

Studio International visited Rana Begum in her studio in north-east London to talk to her about her creative process, and the works she has prepared for her first solo UK exhibition at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art
Painters’ Paintings: from Freud to Van Dyck

The National Gallery sheds light on the personalities of some of the biggest names in painting, not through their work, but through the art that they collected
Georgiana Houghton: Spirit Drawings

She was an abstract painter out of time, a visionary and a maverick, but Georgiana Houghton was also a medium, whose inspiration came from an unexpected source.