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Bedwyr Williams: interview

Living in a small village in north Wales, Bedwyr Williams is the first to confess that most people there, including his partner, think he is a little strange. And indeed, there is no straight talking with this polymath-artist-come-standup comedian whose…
The origins on paper

When art patron Peggy Guggenheim met Robert Motherwell in the 1940s, she encouraged the young artist to work with collage and also organised his first solo exhibition at the Art of This Century gallery in New York. This story is…
David Hockney video installation

Critically acclaimed in the fields of painting, drawing, printmaking and even stage design, David Hockney now presents his first venture into video art, The Jugglers, 18 digital videos synchronised and presented on large screens. Hockney’s video installation debut was unveiled…
David Whitaker Retrospective Part II: Waters of the Nile

Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London 1 July – 31 August 2013
Visions of the Universe

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London 7 June – 15 September 2013
Sturtevant: Leaps, Jumps and Bumps

Serpentine Gallery, London 28 June – 26 August 2013
Mayor Boris Johnson unveils large blue Hahn/Cock

Mayor of London Boris Johnson unveils Hahn/Cock by German artist Katharina Fritsch, the latest sculpture to be installed on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. Measuring 4.7 m high, the giant blue cockerel will remain in place for 18 months
Stay of life in Venice

Venice Biennale 1 June-24 November 2013
Experience the city in four dimensions through the lense of an artist at Beppu Onsen

Located 1,200km west of Tokyo, the city of Beppu in Oita prefecture has, since the late-19th century, attracted tourists and intellectuals from across Japan with its abundant natural hot springs (with around 2,800 springs, it boasts the largest number in…
Revitalising an old art – Interview with Fabricio Lopez

Fabricio Lopez – Várzea Mercedes Viegas Arte Contemporânea Gallery, Rio de Janeiro 24 July–24 August 2013
Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s

V&A, London 10 July 2013–16 February 2014
Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist

Miguel Benavides talks to Ibrahim El-Salahi about his Sudanese heritage, his time in prison on unfounded suspicion of anti-government activities, politics, his career, having sympathy for the underdog, and what makes good art.
Chagall: Modern Master

Tate Liverpool 8 June–6 October 2013
Dennis Hopper: On the Road

Museo Picasso Málaga 29 April–29 September 2013
Picturing Derry

City Factory Gallery, Derry 31 May–7 July 2013
Los Angeles takes Manhattan

Drumroll please for space-and-light artists Robert Irwin and James Turrell, sculptor-ceramicist Ken Price, conceptual artist John Baldessari, music, installation and graphic artist Llyn Foulkes and bad-boy sculptor and video artist Paul McCarthy. (If you include Ed Ruscha, who is extensively…
With Great Force, Swiftly and Surely

Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of Abstraction Edited by Iris Müller-Westermann with Jo Widoff Essays by Iris Müller-Westermann, Pascal Rousseau and David Lomas; and a conversation with Helmut Zander (Moderna Museet/Hatje Cantz, 2013)
Paul Delvaux

Blain|Di Donna, London 18 June–17 July 2013
Outside In: 55th Venice Biennale

In the alleyways of Venice, street vendors are touting a new product – a globule of goo, which when thrown at the pavement splatters into a seemingly irreconcilable fried egg shape, but over the course of five seconds, reforms itself…
Wilma Tabacco: Gilt Edge

Langford120, North Melbourne, Australia 1 June–30 June 2013
Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo: Have you seen me before?

Whitechapel Gallery, London 18 June–8 September 2013
Nicholas Rena: The Harmony of the Year

Lynne Strover Gallery, Cambridge 5 June–29 June 2013 Monumental vessels by Nicholas Rena refer to the respective liturgical and domestic roles played by ceramic jugs or vases throughout history.
Global Clarion Call: Fiona Hall – Big Game Hunting

Heide Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia until 21 July 2013
Bill Viola: Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures

Blain Southern, London 5 June–27 July 2013