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Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350

The National Gallery’s meticulously researched exhibition of medieval Sienese masterpieces is an amassing of wonders that’s worth its weight in gold
Somaya Critchlow: The Chamber

Critchlow’s six sombrely sexy paintings respond to European painting from the 17th and 18th centuries, asking us to look and look again
Elizabeth Fritsch: Otherworldly Vessels

With many objects drawn from Fritsch’s private collection, this first retrospective of the ceramicist in 15 years presents a rare opportunity to see her works
Portia Zvavahera – interview: ‘It’s like I’m speaking with the souls of people, with individuals’

In her only in-person interview for her latest UK show, now at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, the artist discusses the role of dreams and her spirituality in the narratives and atmospheres vividly evoked in her transcendental paintings
Resistance

Conceived and co-curated by Steve McQueen, this exhibition explores how a century of protest from 1903 to 2003 shaped Britain, and the vital part photography played
Mary Cassatt between Paris & New York: The Making of a Transatlantic Legacy – book review

This beautifully illustrated book considers the importance of the American painter and printmaker Mary Cassatt, who moved to Paris, spending time in the company of impressionists and influencing tastes in her native US
Sagarika Sundaram – interview: ‘When I finish a work, it feels very much like skin’

At her studio in the World Trade Center, as she prepares for a solo show at Alison Jacques Gallery in London later this year, the artist talks about using space, surface and colour in her sculptures
Vanessa Bell

To accompany its exhibition Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour, organised in partnership with Charleston, the MK Gallery held a one-day conference at which experts and enthusiasts discussed the pioneering painter and founder member of the Bloomsbury Group
Shu Lea Cheang and Dondon Hounwn – interview: ‘Hagay Dreaming continually evolves and pushes forward through performance’

Speaking during rehearsals, Cheang and Hounwn reflect on the sources of inspiration for the project, on the developmental curve from its inception to its first full theatrical performance at Tate, what audiences might expect and what messages are being transmitted
Alison Watt – interview: ‘I have spent my whole life working from life, so to work from death was a different experience’

The Scottish artist’s astounding trompe l’oeil still lifes of artefacts inspired by the life and times of Sir John Soane integrate into the architecture of Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, creating an engaging 18th-century Gesamtkunstwerk