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  • Jonathan Gabb: interview

    Using a carefully balanced combination of PVA glue and acrylic paints – the precise measures of which only he knows – Jonathan Gabb is a painter with a difference. Starting out with vast sheets of pure colour in huge trays…

  • Serpentine Sackler Gallery

    The Serpentine Gallery has opened a second space in Kensington Gardens, London. The Serpentine Sackler Gallery, made possible by a donation from the Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation, is the capital’s new art fanatics’ destination. The original, early 19th-century…

  • Once Upon a Time

    The Van Abbemuseum, established in 1936 and one of the first public collections devoted to contemporary art in Europe, has changed all its permanent display and will disclose its new exhibition, Once Upon a Time … The Collection Now, to…

  • The Modern City

    Fernand Léger’s masterpiece The City (1919), in which the French painter represents, with vibrant colours, the chaos and movement of the urban environment, is the starting point of Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis. As a man who saw with…

  • AGORA

    The word “Agora”, which in Ancient Greece referred to a public open space where people could gather to debate, is the title of the fourth Athens Biennial (AB4). The international exhibition brings together more than 70 artists to present their…

  • A frightening portrait of Cindy Sherman

    Always working with photography, the American artist Cindy Sherman is also the sitter in most of her images. These are no self-portraits, though, because she creates characters and narratives depicting diverse stereotypes found in contemporary society. Sometimes, she also recreates…

  • From painting to sculpture

    An exponent of what is called “matter painting”, the Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies, who died last year, developed a particular style of artwork with thick layers of paint and a distinctive use of textures and materials that he applied to…

  • A terrain of extended meanings

    Unstable Territory – Borders and Identity in Contemporary Art is a new group show at the Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina in Florence that urges the visitors to think about a hot topic in politics and art – territory. To…

  • Site-specific drawings

    The American artist Richard Serra is renowned for raising awareness of the concept of site-specific artwork. He works with industrial materials and steel to build large-scale sculptures that are installed in public spaces or galleries. This year, Serra presents another…

  • 7th Pinta Art Fair

    Pinta New York will this year take place at a new venue, 82MERCER, a loft-style building in the heart of Soho. PINTA NY will present 60 international exhibitors from 20 countries, showcasing more than 160 modern and contemporary artists from…

  • Wang Keping

    Ben Brown Fine Arts, London 17 October – 29 November 2013

  • Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis

    Philadelphia Museum of Art 14 October 2013 – 5 January 2014

  • The Mike Kelley Retrospective

    The Museum of Modern Art, PS1, Long Island City, New York 13 October 2013 – 2 February 2014

  • Nick Relph: Tomorrow There Is No Recording

    Chisenhale Gallery, London 20 September – 10 November 2013

  • Beyond El Dorado: Power and Gold in Ancient Colombia

    British Museum, London 17 October 2013 – 23 March 2014

  • A Traveller in Time, from Standing Stones to the Distant Stars: an interview with Mariko Mori

    In these works, Mori inserted herself into her scenes in a variety of provocative guises; for instance, as a platinum-blond shaman wearing a spacesuit and holding a “capsule”, an object with magical potential, weaving through Osaka’s Kansai International Airport in…

  • The Heritage of Rogier van der Weyden

    The Heritage of Rogier van der Weyden: Painting in Brussels 1450-1520 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels 12 October 2013 – 26 January 2014

  • Sarah Lucas: Situation – Absolute Beach Man Rubble

    Whitechapel Gallery, London 2 October – 15 December 2013

  • Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood and Identity

    The Photographers’ Gallery, London 11 October 2013 – 5 January 2014

  • Art Under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm

    Tate Britain, London 2 October 2013 – 5 January 2014

  • Anita Glesta: interview

    Anita Glesta: Gernika/Guernica Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology, Beijing 27 September – 31 October 2013

  • Andy Warhol: Pop, Power and Politics

    The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh 5 October – 3 November 2013

  • Kara Walker: interview

    At the opening of Kara Walker’s first UK exhibition, we spoke to her about her work, which is a dark and, at times, sinister, exploration of race, gender, sexuality and violence in American history and society. Best known for her…

  • From Power Lunches to Public Sculpture

    It’s Modern: The Eye and Visual Influence of Alexander Liberman by Charles Churchward with commentaries by Rosamond Bernier, Francine du Plessix Gray, John Richardson, Beatrice Monti and others