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  • Memu Meadows

    Research into dwellings of the future is under way in Hokkaido, the most northerly island in Japan, where the harsh winter climate can see temperatures fall to below -30C

  • HeHe: ‘Pylons are quite beautiful structures in themselves. They’re like little angels’

    Helen Evans, half of the artistic duo known as HeHe, speaks about their current work for the Bruges Triennial, and how it fits with their themes of the environment and urban space

  • Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale 2015

    Japan’s contemporary art festival, the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, despite being held in a region with just 74,000 residents, attracts more than 400,000 visitors, who come from around the world to experience artworks dotted over a vast area of land

  • Richard Long: Time and Space

    Fifteen years after Richard Long’s last exhibition of any scale in his native Bristol, he is the Arnolfini’s showcase artist during the city’s 2015 European Green Capital celebrations. Director Kate Brindley speaks to Studio International about the exhibition

  • Charles Gaines: ‘I am dealing in the area of how meaning is formed’

    US conceptual artist and educator Charles Gaines talks about why he believes art should be interested in knowledge ahead of pleasure, being influenced by Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, and why he contests his students rather than nurturing them

  • Lee Ufan

    This solo exhibition is made up of two bodies of work first conceived near the start of Lee’s career, in the late 60s

  • The boys the girls and the political

    The Lisson Gallery’s summer show takes a linguistic turn while tapping into the trends of the networked age. Studio International talked to its curators, Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot, and discovered the meaning of the ‘metamodern’

  • Yoshihito Mizuuchi: ‘Eating noodle soup makes a sound, but it’s also like a sculpture’

    The process of making a sculpture is a performance art in itself, says the Japanese artist, who explains how he works with an audience, experimenting with found materials, chance and outcome

  • Art in Dialogue: Duccio | Caro

    Bringing together a medieval Sienese altarpiece fragment and a late-20th-century abstract sculpture, despite their being separated by more than 700 years, opens up a lively dialogue that sheds new light on both works

  • Toni Scott: ‘People don’t understand that what’s in the past is still with us today’

    The California-based multimedia artist Toni Scott talks about how, in DNA – Bloodlines and the Family of Mankind, she has woven her own personal family history with the universal history of African Americans and Native Americans in “a celebration of…

  • Eloise Hawser: ‘This machine is all about contact and resistance’

    The artist explains the complex mechanisms of a cinema organ and its colour-changer to Studio International with ease and clarity

  • Raed Yassin: Kissing Amnesia

    Lebanese artist and musician Raed Yassin displays his magnetic, humorous and moving works in the ever-seductive surroundings of Lord Leighton’s Orientalist fantasy in London’s Holland Park

  • The Amazing World of MC Escher

    MC Escher was long ignored by galleries and dismissed by critics, yet there is arguably no modern artist who has profoundly influenced so many different fields, from cinema to graphic design, mathematics to video games

  • Yto Barrada: ‘This whole project started with the sale of a dinosaur’

    The artist discusses her hometown of Tangier, palaeontology, her concerns with trade and smuggling, and the difficulties of opening a cinema when you have no previous experience

  • Royal Scottish Academy Metzstein Architecture Discourse: Glenn Murcutt

    Architect Glenn Murcutt, winner of many international awards, presented an inspiring discourse on his philosophy, which has pioneered a new relationship between architecture and landscape in his native Australia

  • Caro in Yorkshire

    This unmissable two-venue retrospective of Anthony Caro’s work encompasses everything from his vast steel sculptures of the 1960s to his table pieces, to his jewellery, ending with his final works

  • Hannah Collins: ‘Most of my work is a line between culture and the world’

    The British artist known for her large, unframed photographs talks about her latest exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre in London, photographing a hut where Nelson Mandela lived, investigating civil rights in the American south and spending time with tribal…

  • Alinka Echeverria: ‘As soon as you lift up the camera, you make the other person vulnerable’

    The photographer talks about her work looking at political and religious beliefs, including a visit to South Sudan following its independence and meeting Nelson Mandela’s prison warder from Robben Island

  • Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots

    Jackson Pollock’s black paintings have been unjustifiably dismissed by many. Tate Liverpool’s exhibition focuses on this largely neglected period, including also drawings and sculptures done not long before the artist’s untimely death

  • Lee Miller and Picasso

    The close and long-lasting friendship between American photographer Lee Miller and Pablo Picasso is touchingly documented here through more than 100 of the former’s photographs and two works by Picasso

  • Emma Cousin: ‘Humour is the most important thing’

    Studio International visited Transition Gallery in east London to speak to Cousin about painting, inspiration and teaching her grandma how to swim

  • Shoes: Pleasure and Pain

    Exploring themes of transformation, status and seduction, the V&A’s Shoes: Pleasure and Pain is an exploration of power relations, and how the shoe – ostensibly something to wear on one’s foot – can be a tool of empowerment or oppression

  • Hayato Kiyuna, No Aloha

    No Aloha is an exhibition of brightly coloured works on paper by Japanese artist Hayato Kiyuna. It is perhaps no surprise, since he is influenced by music and sound, that the exhibition is titled after one of his favourite songs…

  • Nicholas Mangan: Ancient Lights

    In his latest exhibition at London’s Chisenhale Gallery, Australian artist Nicholas Mangan drags a forgotten credo from the rubble of modernity: respect the nature that gives us life