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  • The beautiful book: art publishing today

    Art books have a special appeal: they are beautiful, collectable objects that are a pleasure to hold and be surrounded by. But the world of art publishing has changed beyond recognition in the past 20 years

  • Moholy-Nagy: Future Present

    A major retrospective showcases the work of multimedia Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy, who pioneered the use of technology as a creative medium

  • Susie Hamilton: In Atoms

    Concerned with the human condition and the solitary existence of individuals, Hamilton’s paintings condense figures into a couple of suggestive brush strokes, stranded in darkness or light. This retrospective offers an overview of two decades of her work

  • Yun-Fei Ji: ‘I’m pessimistic about China’

    He may use scrolls and work in ink in the millennial-old tradition of Chinese landscape painting, but his themes are contemporary – the environmental destruction caused by vast infrastructure projects in his native country and the forced relocation of its…

  • Jeff Koons: Now

    For the second exhibition at his gallery in Vauxhall, Damien Hirst presents more than 30 works by Koons, some of which have never before been shown in the UK

  • Manolo Valdés: ‘I only like apples if they look like Cezanne’s apples!’

    Like a magpie, taking fragments from works of art that he loves and reinterpreting them in new paintings on burlap or as sculptures, Valdés is always on the look out for inspiration. He explains how his entire world is seen…

  • Li Jin: Being

    Alongside some of his older works, this exhibition focuses on his new, mostly monochrome paintings, executed in a range of black ink, whose disquieting and confrontational images shift fluidly between the abstract and the figurative

  • Wolfgang Tillmans

    What is lost is lost forever, says Tillmans in this politically charged exhibition, which includes posters imploring British voters to stay in Europe. With the show straddling the date of the UK’s referendum on 23 June, it will be interesting…

  • Harland Miller: ‘Brevity is no strength of mine’

    The writer and artist discusses Berlin, Bowie and alter egos, his show with Blain Southern, and why he won’t use 10 words when 20 will do

  • Dóra Maurer: ‘My work has been based on change, shifting, traces, temporality’

    As a new exhibition surveys her 50-years career, the Hungarian artist talks about colour, maths and geometry – and why she doesn’t like finished work

  • Almuth Tebbenhoff: ‘I’m wrestling with ideas that are way out of my control’

    The sculptor talks about the perpetual puzzle of the cosmos and its vastness, eternity and the meaning of life – all themes running through her work, no matter what its scale

  • Bhupen Khakhar: You Can’t Please All

    Whether depicting the pathos of everyday tradesmen, the union of same-sex lovers, or the embattled duality of a body riddled with cancer, the Indian artist’s wry humour combines with his vibrant palette to create compelling narrative paintings that speak to…

  • Ella Kruglyanskaya

    Colourful, cartoonesque depictions of curvaceous, sassy women people the Latvian artist’s paintings but, despite the humour, the message is clear

  • Anthony McCall: ‘I wondered if it would be possible to make a film that existed only at the moment of projection’

    The artist, a key figure in the avant-garde London Film-makers’ Co-operative in the 1970s, discusses his current exhibition at a 15th-century gothic palace in Barcelona

  • Guillermo Kuitca

    In this bold collection of paintings, the Argentinian artist demonstrates his “cubistoid” style, creating abstract worlds informed by geometric rigour, into which he intersperses more figurative details

  • Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms

    The largest exhibition of Bacon’s paintings ever held in the north of England, it takes as its curatorial framework the spaces the artist painted around his famously brutalised figures – outlines of cubes, rings, platforms and provisional rooms

  • Cuba Libre, Con Permiso

    Artists are the plutocrats in Cuba and, with trade embargos with the US likely to be lifted soon, storied collectors and celebrities are already scouting around for their works.

  • Maria Lassnig

    Concerned with the fundamental problem of the location of the body, both on canvas and in the world, the Austrian artist’s self-portraits span genre and interrogate the notion of self-representation and the limitations of painting

  • Tess Jaray: Dark & Light

    In this exhibition, which comprises three triptychs and two small standalone pieces, Jaray’s interest in the definitions of painting, printing and the boundaries between different media is clear

  • Cory Arcangel – interview: ‘Making art is just basically dowsing’

    The Brooklyn-based artist talks about his latest show at the Lisson Gallery in London, billed as ‘a technological exploration of obsession and obsolescence’

  • Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds

    Ongoing excavations of two rediscovered cities have shone light on a rich era in Egyptian history, and form the backbone of a fascinating exhibition

  • György Kovásznai: A Cold War Artist. Animation. Painting. Freedom

    The first UK retrospective of the work of the Hungarian artist, film-maker and animator displayed his extensive and eclectic range

  • Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph

    This exhibition tells the story of the birth of photography, exploring the vision of the Victorian inventor William Henry Fox Talbot, alongside those of his contemporaries in France, such as painter and set designer Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre

  • Katie Paterson: ‘As a child, I used to practise daydreaming’

    With her largest UK show to date currently on at the Lowry, the artist talks about the relationship with heavenly bodies and the wider cosmos, her graveyard of stars and sending her work into space