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  • Stan Douglas

    Through photographs, film and video art, in his exhibition at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery, Canadian artist Stan Douglas blurs the borders between truth and fiction, between what we see and what we think we see

  • Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014

    Studio International attended the opening night of Bloomberg New Contemporaries at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London to talk to those involved in this year’s competition

  • Nacho Carbonell: ‘I try to communicate to many people through objects’

    Nacho Carbonell makes collectable pieces that span the fields of art and design. On the occasion of his first large-scale solo exhibition, he talks about his creative practice and how his design for an inflatable chair, Pump It Up, became…

  • Giovanni Battista Moroni

    In this major exhibition of the 16th-century Italian painter Giovanni Battista Moroni, the Royal Academy is showing more than 40 works, from his portraits to his lesser-known religious paintings

  • Janenne Eaton: ‘My work is deeply political’

    Melbourne-based artist Janenne Eaton talks about the inspiration behind her recent installation, Road to the Hills, her love of driving alone through the Australian landscape, and the changes digital technology has brought

  • Jockum Nordström: ‘There’s a self-portrait in every single thing I do. Even if I make a tree or a sex-scene, I can play the both of them’

    Having travelled from the island of Gotland where his latest solo exhibition was composed, Swedish artist Jockum Nordström talks about his creative process, his communication with the dead, and the problem of exterior definition

  • Alberto Biasi: interview

    In conversation with Studio International, Alberto Biasi reveals the singular motivations behind his work and its sometimes unexpected origins. He also sheds light on the processes involved in the creation of visually dynamic objects and how his infinitesimally precise manipulation…

  • Gego and Gerd Leufert: a dialogue

    This exhibition of works by Gertrude Goldschmidt – Gego – and Gerd Leufert demonstrates their romance both with line and drawing and with one another

  • Peder Balke

    Peder Balke is a little known 19th-century Norwegian artist. The National Gallery and Northern Norway Art Museum, Tromsø, hope to change that, but is he really a forgotten great?

  • Helena Rubinstein: Beauty is Power

    Although her products have been unavailable in the US for decades, Helena Rubinstein – “Empress of Beauty”, as Jean Cocteau called her – is being celebrated by the Jewish Museum in New York. The exhibit focuses on the link she…

  • Maisie Broadhead: ‘I was quite happy to be fraudulent’

    The photographer and jewellery-maker talks about her latest show, Peepers at Brighton’s Royal Pavilion, and how she takes her inspiration from Old Masters

  • Chris Martin: ‘When you’re outside, you can have a truly gigantic studio’

    New York City-based artist Chris Martin, whose works were recently on show at the Anton Kern Gallery, talks about painting outside in the woods in Walton, how he gets his inspiration, and why he loves glitter so much

  • Constable: The Making of a Master

    John Constable is renowned for his idyllic images of the English countryside. But as a new exhibition at the V&A shows, he didn’t just sketch picturesque scenes of the Stour Valley, but drew inspiration from Europe’s Old Masters as he…

  • Franklin Sirmans: ‘You should be able to smell, hear and taste New Orleans’

    Franklin Sirmans, artistic director of the New Orleans biennial Prospect.3: Notes for Now, on the books and films that influenced his choices, and moving on from being a post-Hurricane Katrina show

  • Prospect.3: Notes for Now

    New Orleans plays host to 58 artists from around the world – including Theaster Gates, Carrie Mae Weems, Agus Suwage and Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as many less familiar names – for Prospect.3, whose dominant theme is race and identity

  • Steven Appleby: interview

    Studio International visited the artist Steven Appleby’s studio in south London. Appleby, whose work is sometimes described as absurdist, is primarily known for his weekly cartoon strip, Loomus, in the Guardian

  • The British Line: Group Show

    What defines the British national character? The British Line, an exhibition at the Robin Katz gallery of monochrome drawings by some of the greatest British artists from the 20th century to today, hopes to answer that question

  • Pieter Vermeersch

    In his latest solo exhibition, Belgian artist Pieter Vermeersch casts a minimal eye over the fragmentation of time and space, bringing serenity through simplicity

  • Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography

    This retrospective of the work of American photographer and film-maker Paul Strand spans six decades of his career, including his candid street portraits, films and artist’s books

  • Faig Ahmed: ‘Collision of old and new is one of the concepts in my works’

    The Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed talks about his exhibition Fluid Forms, how he reinterprets the process of carpet-making, and the fact that traditional weavers were not happy producing carpets with gaping holes

  • Zarina: Descending Darkness

    In her works on paper and installations, the artist Zarina, who left her birthplace in India more than 50 years ago, explores the idea of home while living elsewhere

  • Gretchen Bender

    In a mesmerising and disquieting exhibition, Tate Liverpool showcases the prophetic work of video artist Gretchen Bender, who railed against the rise of consumerism and the political appropriation of mass media

  • Allen Jones

    Risking the wrath of many, London’s Royal Academy of Arts is playing host to a long-overdue thematic overview of the controversial works of British pop artist Allen Jones.

  • Roxy Paine interview: ‘The best ideas come out of long gestation’

    Roxy Paine’s Checkpoint is the latest of his meticulously crafted dioramas. He talks about how he fuses industry and nature in his work and why, despite the vast scale of some of his pieces, he still makes everything by hand