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William Mackrell – interview: ‘I have an interest in dissecting the myth of Sisyphus – the persistence in the seemingly impossible’

His work has included lighting 1,000 candles and getting two horses to pull a car. Now, he is using his dismantled childhood bed in one show and dancing in overalls laden with coins in another. He explains his interest in…
Marina Tabassum – interview: ‘Architecture is my life and my lifestyle, everything together’

The award-winning Bangladeshi architect behind this year’s Serpentine Pavilion on why she has shunned ‘flashy buildings with instant appeal’ and instead built a mosque and housing for refugees
A cabinet of curiosities – inside the new V&A East Storehouse

Diller Scofidio + Renfro has turned the 2012 Olympics broadcasting centre into a sparkling repository for the V&A’s collection. A new kind of statement building where the excitement is all on the inside, this hybrid of archive and museum an…
Plásmata 3: We’ve met before, haven’t we?

This nocturnal exhibition organised by the Onassis Foundation’s cultural platform transforms a public park in Athens into a space for encountering artworks at night
Ruth Asawa: Retrospective / Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art / Walt Disney Family Museum

Three well-attended museum exhibitions in San Francisco flag a subtle shift from the current drumbeat of art thrown together in protest to a timeless aesthetic freed from agendas and concerns for diversity, equality, and strife to ravish the eye and…
Sargent and Paris

This dazzling exhibition on the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death celebrates his versatile brilliance and enduring legacy
Emma Critchley: Soundings

Through film, sound and dance, the artist’s continuing investigative project takes audiences on a journey to the deep, focusing on the environmental issue of deep-sea mining
Rijksakademie Open Studios: Nora Aurrekoetxea, AYO and Eniwaye Oluwaseyi

At the Rijksakademie’s annual Open Studios event during Amsterdam Art Week, we spoke to three artists about the work they have produced during their residency
AYO – interview: Rijksakademie Open Studios

AYO reflects on her upbringing and ancestry in Uganda from her current position as a resident of the Netherlands, using sculpture, sound and performance to create an in-between space of ambiguous, embodied translation
Eniwaye Oluwaseyi – interview: Rijksakademie Open Studios

Eniwaye Oluwaseyi paints figures, including himself, friends and members of his family, within compositions that explore the transience of identity