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  • William S Burroughs: Can you all hear me?

    The October Gallery’s exhibition explores the legacy of novelist and artist William S Burroughs, and shows work by those he influenced, including Brion Gysin, Liliane Lijn, Genesis P-Orridge

  • Jessica Stockholder: ‘Art changes, taking account of the present moment’

    Jessica Stockholder talks about her work, which combines painting, sculpture, installation and language in a unique creation that calls for a close personal encounter with the viewer

  • Nina Lola Bachhuber: ‘The creative process is like a virus in my brain’

    The Munich-born artist’s delicate drawings depict invented characters that are then given form in sculptures. She explains her methods and her choice of materials and says a humorous air of surrealism leavens a wild energy in her works

  • Refiguring the 50s

    The exhibition at Ben Uri brings together five postwar artists, Joan Eardley, Sheila Fell, Eva Frankfurther, Josef Herman and LS Lowry, all of whom shared a common interest in working people and the underlying human condition

  • Samara Scott: Harvest

    Using edible and chemical substances from hair gel to toothpaste to avocado skins and potatoes, Samara Scott explores the processes of human consumption and waste through the creation of a series of dense landscapes lit by a warm, coloured light

  • Concentric circles: Wojciech Fangor and Peter Sedgely

    First published in Studio International, Vol 171 No 878, June 1966

  • A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution

    From the “votes for women” campaigns of the early 20th century to anti-apartheid protests in the 1960s and more recent anti-war movements, this exhibition of posters provides a fascinating insight into a modern history of dissent and political change

  • Wojciech Fangor: Colour-Light-Space

    In the 1950s and 60s, Polish-born Wojciech Fangor (b1928) was an artistic force to be reckoned with. Having turned to poster art as an escape from the social realism that dominated his homeland at that time, he became fascinated with…

  • Sam Belinfante: ‘For galleries, sound is still a terrifying prospect’

    Sam Belinfante talks about the role of listening in the visual arts and the challenges he faced in curating this engaging and impressive show, which features some of the key figures in aural art today

  • Dan Coombs: ‘Art is grounded in reaching for the real’

    The artist talks about how he hoped his recent exhibition, Suspicion, would answer his 20-year quest to find out what narrative in painting is, his regret at the demise of life drawing, and teaching at a new private art school

  • Maggi Hambling: ‘Some paintings you’ve just got to cut up. There’s enough bad art in the world’

    Maggi Hambling talks about the sea, life, death and love in her work, how, despite being nearly 70, she’s still learning about painting, and why sometimes a painting has to be killed off

  • Caragh Thuring

    In her largest exhibition to date, British artist Caragh Thuring presents a diverse series of abstract paintings that elicit a multitude of questions, but refuse to provide answers

  • Transfigurations: Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection

    This exhibition, which revolves around Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet and Alberto Giacometti, offers works of an intimacy, scale and aesthetic that is utterly personal while also of museum calibre. The Picassos alone are worth the trip

  • Nova at Art Basel Miami Beach

    The Nova section of Art Basel Miami Beach gave artists a chance to show their latest works, from drawing, painting and sculpture to installation and video, and included work from last year’s Turner-prize winner Laure Prouvost

  • Jim Campbell: Indirect Imaging

    American artist Jim Campbell uses LED technology for his light installations in this stunning exploration of time, light and space at Dundee Contemporary Arts

  • Refraction: The Image of Sense

    The internet and new technology have changed visual culture, and Peter Amdam, curator of Blain Southern’s latest show, has gathered a group of young artists to explore how art now operates, where the interface of human and non-human elements of…

  • Reiner Ruthenbeck

    In this major retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery, the works of Reiner Ruthenbeck – in particular, his overturned furniture – have raised that old question, But is it art? Happily, the answer is yes.

  • Brian Bress: ‘I come to video with the agenda of a painter’

    Brian Bress is an innovative multimedia artist who creates works that combine painting, drawing, animation, video, and performance art into a new form of expression

  • Kennedy Browne: ‘With the internet there is no final cut’

    Irish artist duo Kennedy Browne talk about how their work has been shaped by free-market triumphalism in the decades since Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, plane-spotting at Shannon airport – and Mark Zuckerberg’s lightsaber

  • Marie Jacotey – Dolly

    One of this year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 26-year-old, Paris-born Marie Jacotey is exhibiting 58 drawings on plaster in this, her first solo exhibition at the Hannah Barry Gallery

  • Art Basel Miami Beach: 14th Edition

    This year’s fair was all about art as entertainment – and it didn’t disappoint. With more than 250 galleries, sales ranging up to $4.5m for a Warhol, and celebrity buyers such as P Diddy and Leonardo DiCaprio, it was clear…

  • Matt Copson: interview

    Emerging artist Matt Copson’s alter ego is a vengeful fox named Reynard. Using ancient European folklore as inspiration, Copson has created a character that is both hateful and pitiful. Reynard has many manifestations, but at this year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries…

  • Milou van der Maaden: interview

    Dutch artist Milou van der Maaden graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art this year and instantly caught the attention of the panellists selecting for Bloomberg New Contemporaries with her entry From A Head to A Head, a video…

  • Charles Richardson: interview

    Recent Slade graduate Charles Richardson has hit the ground running. This year, in addition to his inclusion in Bloomberg New Contemporaries, he won the coveted New Sensations prize. Richardson’s work is an intricate mix of mediums and ideas and has…