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  • Marni Kotak interview: ‘I wanted to have my son’s birth as a performance’

    US artist Marni Kotak talks about her performance of everyday events in real life as way to raise awareness of self-destructive emotions that ruin women’s lives and often go unnoticed

  • Adeline de Monseignat: interview

    Dutch-Monagesque artist Adeline de Monseignat’s work is greatly influenced by Sigmund Freud’s concept of the uncanny. For her current exhibition, Home at the Ronchini Gallery, she has created a large-scale installation exploring childhood memories

  • Hayal Pozanti interview: ‘Materials and processes are pushing the boundaries of what constitutes a painting physically’

    Hayal Pozanti interview: ‘Materials and processes are pushing the boundaries of what constitutes a painting physically’

  • Fabrizio Poltronieri: Iconic Theogonies – The presentation of Computational Gods

    The 20 prints in this show are a product of pure chance, says Fabrizio Poltronieri, who as both artist and programmer, positions himself in the tradition of truthful and direct computational experimentation between man, code and computer

  • From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia

    Canadian artist Emily Carr, born near the end of the 19th century, recorded the relics and landscapes of the indigenous people of British Columbia. Through her work, this exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery provides a vividly illustrated history lesson

  • E.V. Day interview: ‘I stiffened 200 thongs to look like jet fighters and strung them in the atrium of Philip Morris’s. That would not have happened in the 70s.’

    Best-known for her 3D installations, artist E.V. Day talks about using Barbie dolls, ripped clothing, skulls, monofilament and light to explore sexuality and feminism, and why she’s glad the humour shows in her work

  • Agathe Sorel: studio tour

    Agathe Sorel talks to Studio International about the work in her retrospective exhibition at the Studio of Contemporary Art, Forest Hill, London. Her work has been principally interested in the line, and its 3D – or even 4D – properties,…

  • Piotr Ukla&#324ski interview: ‘I think of death all the time’

    The New York-based Polish artist Piotr Uklański talks about the influence of the second world war on his work, dealing with death as a subject, and his eternal pessimism

  • Frieze London 2014

    The 12th edition of Frieze London brought many changes. Yet while curators and exhibitors took creative risks, the Frieze formula continues to succeed in bringing the best galleries and artists to London each year

  • Christian Thompson interview: ‘My work does not need to be read through the optical lens of my race’

    Janet McKenzie: Christian, you were born in South Australia, travelled extensively with your family while growing up, but consider your home to be in Queensland, where your great-great-great-grandfather was a senior tribesman of the Bidjara people. Can you describe your…

  • Ethereal

    This exhibition of contemporary art from South Asia displays an impressive range of materials and styles, traditional and modern, but stays within an all-embracing fold of the ethereal

  • Age of Wonderland

    One of the highlights of this year’s Dutch Design Week was Age of Wonderland, in which young artists and designers from across the world came to the Netherlands to develop their visions on social innovation and co-creation, and exchange ideas…

  • What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me

    One hundred years after Marcel Duchamp produced his first readymade, more than 50 artists, including Peter Blake, Michael Craig-Martin and Janet Laurence, show how he influenced their work

  • Cut to Swipe

    With works from the 1980s to the present that appropriate, and sometimes manipulate, images and sound from television, film, the internet and radio, MoMA’s Cut to Swipe explores the rapidly changing nature of visual culture across digital and social media

  • Anselm Kiefer

    Anselm Kiefer, who was born in Germany in 1945, studied law before beginning his art education in Karlsruhe and then Düsseldorf. Now seen as one of the most successful artists of his generation, he represented his country at the 39th…

  • Egon Schiele: The Radical Nude

    Egon Schiele’s controversial drawings, which peel back Vienna’s bourgeois façade to reveal a world of sex and death, go on display at the Courtauld Gallery for the UK’s first ever show dedicated to the Austrian artist’s radical work

  • VS Gaitonde: Painting as Process, Painting as Life

    The works of the modernist Indian painter VS Gaitonde bring us to the world of abstraction, demonstrating the artist’s life-long dedication to art as a spiritual journey and a rigorous discipline practised through painting

  • Nathaniel Prottas interview: ‘Often museum didactics get in the way of people viewing art’

    Nathaniel Prottas, director of education at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York, talks about public programming for its current exhibition, which traces the history of printmaking, through works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo and…

  • Michelle Grabner interview: ‘My family is an important part of my life as an artist’

    American conceptual artist Michelle Grabner talks about how she combines her roles as artist, curator, teacher and writer, the importance of her family to her art, and why she stays rooted in the Midwest

  • Memling. A Flemish Renaissance

    For the first time, a Flemish Primitive shines in the capital of the Italian peninsula, as the Scuderie del Quirinale offers an unprecedented loan of paintings by Hans Memling, the favourite of the Italian community in Bruges

  • Rembrandt: The Late Works

    This winter’s blockbuster exhibition at the National Gallery examines Rembrandt’s expressive and moving later work from the 1650s until his death in 1669

  • Versace at the V&A

    Versace at the V&A is the largest exhibition that the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London, has ever dedicated to one fashion designer. This massive retrospective will show Gianni Versace’s unique flair for fashion and his great quest for beauty…

  • Carsten Höller: LEBEN

    Carsten Höller’s show Leben allows visitors to do more than just view the exhibits. From staying overnight in his robotically operated bed to immersing themselves in a flotation tank, the artist invites them to engage all their senses

  • Steve McQueen: Ashes

    With his film Ashes, and an accompanying pair of sculptures, Steve McQueen highlights an uncomfortable truth about the untimely deaths of many young black men