Archive
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Mark Wallinger: ‘Even the ugliest mark, with symmetry, gains some kind of élan’
After months of psychoanalysis, the Turner Prize-winning artist reveals something of his inner self in his debut solo show at Hauser & Wirth. The id, the ego and the superego are all vying for attention and begging interpretation
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Nico Vascellari: ‘I’m not interested in the rules or breaking them. I am just interested in creating my own work’
The artist talks about how touring in a band influenced his work, despising morality in art, how we are all like fossils, with memories buried in our DNA – and why he wants his work to make people feel uncomfortable
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Michelle Stuart: Theatre of Memory – Photographic Works
For Stuart, each photograph matters in such a way that when we look at one or many of them, we sense a connection to some eternal, primeval truth
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Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection – from Shōhaku and Rosanjin to Anselm Kiefer
Artist Takashi Murakami has built up a vast collection centred around contemporary art, but also including old Japanese artefacts, pottery, calligraphy and European antiques. For the first time, this exhibition brings some of it to the public view
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Barry Flanagan Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
Marking the 50th anniversary of Flanagan’s first solo show, this exhibition affords visitors a glimpse into the huge range of his work – work that has influenced a generation
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Colin Self – interview: ‘I want to be devoid of the art world and paddle my own canoe’
On the occasion of his exhibition at London’s Mayor Gallery, the most singular of British pop artists talks about the rough and tumble of postwar London and Norfolk, class consciousness at the Slade, Hockney’s admiration of his work, and his…
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Verónica Losantos: Screen Memories
To recreate memories of a father she hasn’t seen since she was a 12-year-old child, the artist turned to photography. Her evocative, grainy images create a narrative that leaves the viewer to guess how much is true and how much…
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Das Institut
Creative duo Kerstin Brätsch and Adele Röder’s transformative installation at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery reflects on the meaning of collaboration, language and authorship in contemporary art
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Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better
The Swiss duo play with viewers’ habits and expectations, but they demand to be taken seriously at this game
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Armory Week 2016
There was a feeling this year of tectonic shift, with black the current chic, and all things African American now as much a part of the American Experience as the cowboy and the burger. And what was truly new was…
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Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8)
Emphasising postcolonial themes of displacement, migration and return, privilege and exploitation, APT8 includes more than 80 artists and collectives from 36 countries across a vast and culturally diverse zone to find artists who are often new to western audiences
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Andy Warhol – Ai Weiwei
This exhibition of more than 300 works explores the formal similarities and conceptual differences between Warhol and Ai – from their approaches to studio practice, their interest in their native societies, their experiments with celebrity, and their popular appeal
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Kiki Kogelnik: Works from 1962-68
With her joyful neon palette and playful style, Kogelnik is often considered Austria’s pre-eminent pop artist. The powerful works in this show explore a period in which she moved to New York, rubbing shoulders with Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein
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Sergio Caballero: ‘I’m interested in the creative process. I couldn’t care less about the final work’
The Spanish artist, composer, film-maker and director of Barcelona’s Sónar Festival talks about his quirky interest in taxidermy and the paranormal, his unorthodox film-making process, and why he’s averse to popular culture
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Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art
This exhibition includes some beautiful and touching examples of artistic hero worship, but the underlying concept is a strained addition to the misleading story of the origin of modern art
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Joachim Koester: The Other Side of the Sky
With works by JMW Turner and constant reference to the surrealist artist Henri Michaux, Koester takes us on a journey of exploration through his influences
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Lin Tianmiao – interview: ‘Thread winding taught me to be patient’
Incorporating weaving, sewing and embroidery into her fine art practice, the multidisciplinary artist transforms ordinary objects made from commonplace materials into something rare, evocative and universal. Here, she talks about her work
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Andrea Ponsi: ‘I draw, therefore I am’
The architect, designer, writer and painter on how he went from building his own shelter in a South American palm grove to building furniture from copper piping, why the role of an artist or architect is to create harmony, and…
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Botticelli and Treasures from the Hamilton Collection
Botticelli’s delicate illustrations of Dante’s The Divine Comedy steal the show in this exhibition of prints and manuscripts from the Hamilton Collection. Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen, head of the Courtauld, talks to us about them
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Chillida: Rhythm–Time–Silence
Three monumental sculptures of corten steel and granite, made in the closing years of Spanish artist Eduardo Chillida’s life, are now on show in Britain for the first time
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Chantal Joffe: ‘I want to make the painting feel like the person’
The artist talks about what she seeks to capture in a painting, how motherhood changed her, and why she is drawn to confessional poetry
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Conrad Shawcross: ‘It looks like a wonder of the world’
Conrad Shawcross talks to Studio International about his new public sculpture, Paradigm, and shows us round his studio and the fabricator as the final pieces are being put together.
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Joe Graham: ‘Anchor is not quite a book about drawing, and yet it’s not quite a book that isn’t about drawing’
His new book, Anchor, presents 14 responses to the question: What is an outline? Here, he explains why he uses drawing as a form of investigation to explore philosophical ideas
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Anri Sala: Answer Me
Sound, music and history are brought together in this comprehensive look at Sala’s work, which includes videos, video installations, drawings and sculptures made over a 15-year period
