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The Nakeds

Egon Schiele’s iconic drawings are a starting point for this extensive group show at Drawing Room, titled The Nakeds. The exhibition looks at the extent of Schiele’s influence on contemporary artists, while placing a finger on current issues of feminism,…
Trajectories: 19th-21st Century Printmaking from India and Pakistan

Trajectories looks at printmaking from India and Pakistan and establishes a context for its development there within the broader scope of world art history
5 x 5 (2014)

Washington DC is hosting its second 5 x 5, a public arts festival that sees an extraordinary diversity of temporary artworks springing up all over the city. And, below, Lance Fung curator of Nonuments, one of the festival’s projects, talks…
Peter Sacks interview: ‘Every painting has its own secret story’

Peter Sacks, a South African expatriate, has a biography that is as rich and varied as the art he practises. Having left his native country at a young age and gone on to become a recognised poet with tenure at…
John Keane interview: ‘Art shouldn’t be sensationalist, but at the same time it shouldn’t flinch from addressing difficult questions’

John Keane, artist in residence at the University of St Andrews, talks about the political influences behind his painting and his views on the relationship between art, performance and politics
Cubism: The Leonard A Lauder Collection

This superbly sensitive installation of the four greats of Cubism – Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger and Juan Gris – conveys the courage bordering on insanity that ended a centuries-old pictorial tradition
Natalia Kolodzei interview: ‘My dream is that every American museum has a small collection of Russian art’

Natalia Kolodzei, executive director of the Kolodzei Art Foundation, talks about her family collection of Soviet and Russian art, begun in the 1960s when Nikita Khrushchev’s leadership of the Soviet Union led to slightly more freedom for artists
Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor

Robert Gober is perhaps best-known for his deceptively simple sculptures – in particular his sinks – but this large-scale survey of his work at MoMA, including drawings, print and photographs, draws us in to the intricacies of the artist’s storytelling
Store your art in an egg

UOVO, a $70m state-of-the-art storage facility for high-end artwork, is to open in New York City next month. As well as providing a museum-quality environment, it will also act as a highly accessible archive
Panamarenko Universum

In this retrospective of postwar artist and inventor Panamarenko, alias Henri van Herwegen, the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen offers more than 40 works, accompanied by drawings, models and sketches
Glenn Adamson interview: ‘Webb saw clearly that human connection was the real value to be found in the handmade’

As New York’s Museum of Arts and Design celebrates its founder, Aileen Osborn Webb, with a superb array of 100 objects, including some made by Webb herself, MAD’s director, Glenn Adamson, talks about this indomitable pioneer of foundational craft organisations…
Ed Fornieles interview: ‘If you want access to the site, it’s a trade of your photos or data’

For his show at the Chisenhale Gallery, Ed Fornieles has created a suburban Los Angeles television set with a twist. Titled Modern Family, the exhibition explores how contemporary identities are shaped by our online existences
Aleah Chapin: interview

American artist Aleah Chapin has had huge success early in her career. On graduating from the New York Academy of Art she was made a postgraduate fellow and went on to become one of the youngest artists to win the…
Fritz Wotruba – Homage to Michelangelo

In a posthumous retrospective of the drawings and sculptures of Fritz Wotruba, the souls of the inanimate are evident as he revives our view of an earlier master
Glenn Ligon: interview

Glenn Ligon, who was born in 1960, is famed for his thought-provoking works, which combine text, silkscreen painting, neon and video, and explore themes of identity, racism, sexuality and civil rights. Ligon spoke to Studio International before the opening of…
Zero: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-60s

The Guggenheim is to be congratulated for tackling the complex subject of the German artists’ group Zero, and the international network of artists with whom they forged connections, in an attempt to change the face of postwar art
Zarouhie Abdalian interview: ‘It’s important for work to be challenging and perhaps even difficult’

A Will Brown: Zarouhie, can you give a brief summary of what you are working on and what shows you have coming up? ZarouhieAbdalian: At the moment, I’m focusing on a couple of projects: next up is a site-responsive outdoor…
Encountering the Astronomical Sublime: Vintage Nasa Photographs 1961-1980

With distance comes sublime beauty, and with space travel our world is something magnificent to behold. For many, space travel is also an impossible dream, to be viewed and lived vicariously through the imagined lives of astronauts. As the vintage…
Richard Demarco interview: ‘The art world, like the Edinburgh festival itself, is in danger of being identified with the world of entertainment and leisure’

Richard Demarco has organised exhibitions and theatre events for the Edinburgh festival since 1963. He talks about his memories of the very first festival in 1947, bringing Joseph Beuys to Scotland, his own work as an artist and the Demarco…
Yuri Pattison: Free Traveller

Yuri Pattison’s exhibition Free Traveller at Cell Project Space is an unconventional look at the state of internet technology. Pattison explores alternative platforms, contemporary power structures and the limits and bounds to the networks we rely on
Sensation and Sensuality: Rubens and his Legacy

This true gem of an exhibition shows not only Rubens’ vast creativeness, but the incredible artistic influence he bestowed on those who sought to follow him
Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget

Ralph Fasanella’s paintings, on view at the American Folk Art Museum, record US history from the point of view of a life-long New Yorker, the son of Italian immigrants, a union organiser whose passion was the working class and social…
Crossing the Line 2: Drawing in the Middle East

Crossing the Line was a conference that brought together specialists to examine the role of drawing in the Middle East with the aim of breaking down the cultural barriers to personal expression
GW Bot interview: ‘Living and working in Australia has meant coming to terms with the country in one’s own way’

The signs and symbols that have developed in Bot’s work, which she calls “glyphs”, form a calligraphic language, from which she creates a visual poetry. Her work was included in the Royal Academy’s exhibition Australia in 2013.