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Nostalgic for the Future

We are at the Lisson Gallery, London, to see the group exhibition Nostalgic for the Future, shown earlier this year in São Paulo, Brazil. This newly configured exhibition displays works by 16 different artists, celebrating the multigenerational programme of the…
Yang Fudong: Estranged Paradise, Works 1993-2013

Yang Fudong’s filmic and photographic works explore the search for identity and belonging of his young generation, born during and after the Cultural Revolution, in contemporary Chinese society, during a time of great change. Anxieties and tensions, nostalgia and hope:…
Van Gogh in Paris

Van Gogh spent two years of his short but productive ten-year career as an artist living in Paris with his brother Theo, an art dealer and gallerist. Arriving there in 1886, Van Gogh was still painting from a dark, sombre…
Magritte’s Lonely Art

Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938 The Museum of Modern Art, New York City 28 September 2013 – 12 January 2014
Crisis and Catharsis in Clay: an interview with Sana Musasama

Body & Soul features 24 artists responding with clay to the pain of living in an exploitative, violent world. The emotionally charged pieces gathered for this show argue for the impact that socially committed artists can have on individual lives,…
Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 6 October 2013 – 2 March 2014
‘Küssen Im Park’: The Serpentine Gallery Expands

To be known as the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, after Dr Mortimer Sackler and his wife Theresa, the prime sponsors (together with long-term Serpentine supporters Bloomberg Philanthropies), in business terms it looks set to transform the galleries’ operation. Dr Mortimer Sackler,…
Eileen Gray: Architect Designer Painter

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 12 October 2013 – 19 January 2014
The Queens Museum, New York reopens

From its foundation in 1972, the museum had been housed in the northern half of an historic New York City building erected in 1937 for the 1939 World’s Fair. Since 1952, the southern half of the building had been occupied…
Painting Now: Five Contemporary Artists

Tate Britain, London 12 November 2013 – 9 February 2014
Interview with John Mellencamp

Lilly Wei: You’ve had two museum shows of your paintings recently, the first at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville last year and now this one at the Butler. Would you talk a little about your painting? Although less widely…
Klara Lidén: The Myth of Progress

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 12 October 2013 – 19 January 2014
Our voice as protagonist – a meeting with Tania Bruguera

Bruguera, who was born in Cuba in 1968, now divides her time between New York and Havana. Her work came to prominence following her series Homenaje a Ana Mendieta, recreations of body performances and objects in tribute to her compatriot.…
Permission Granted Tania Bruguera’s Immigrant Movement International

Tania Bruguera: Immigrant Movement International Part of the series The Tanks: live programme 2012
Patricia Johanson: The World as a Work of Art

Museum Het Domein, Sittard, the Netherlands 29 September 2013 – 26 January 2014
Daumier (1808-1879): Visions of Paris

The Sackler Wing of Galleries, Burlington House, Royal Academy, London 26 October 2013 – 26 January 2014
Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making, 1789 – 2013

Tate Liverpool 8 November 2013 – 2 February 2014
Paul Klee: Making Visible

Tate Modern, London 16 October 2013 – 9 March 2014
Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900

Victoria and Albert Museum, London 26 October 2013 – 19 January 2014
Kentridge: Where Are We and How Did We Get Here?

William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 22 October 2013 – 11 May 2014
Mark Bradford: Through Darkest America by Truck and Tank

White Cube Bermondsey, London 16 October – 22 December 2013
An American in London: Whistler and the Thames

Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 16 October 2013 – 12 January 2014
Containers for the human condition

The 24 artists selected for Body & Soul: New International Ceramics are using clay – traditionally made into vessels and decorative objects – to sculpt powerful responses to social injustices, environmental devastation and the day-to-day pain of living in an…
Frieze Art Fair London 2013: Reaching new audiences

Situated in Regent’s Park, Frieze London hosted more than 150 exhibitors in an airily minimal pavilion designed by Carmody Groarke. A short stroll away, at Gloucester Green, its sister fair, Frieze Masters, presented “130 of the world’s leading galleries” in…