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William Pope.L: ‘There should be a porosity to the work when you’re building it, envisioning it’
At the opening of Hospital at the South London Gallery, his first major institutional UK show since 2011, the US artist talked about the themes of care and precarity in his work. With his sudden death just weeks later, in…
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Belles Choses. Art Nouveau Around 1900
The Bröhan-Museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary with this exhibition looking at French and Belgian Art Nouveau, with some items that have previously never been shown in public
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Andrew Cranston – interview: ‘Trust in things around you being the stuff of art’
As his first public exhibition opens in Wakefield, the brilliant Scottish painter talks about Franz Kafka, DH Lawrence, fried eggs and punctums
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James Lingwood and Michael Morris, former Artangel directors – interview: ‘The art world audience was for us the least interesting audience’
Their legacy includes Rachel Whiteread’s cast of a terraced house, Roger Hiorns transformation of a council flat into a blue crystal cave and Michael Landy’s destruction of all his possessions in a department store window. They discuss how the art…
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Self-Determination: A Global Perspective
Numerous new nations sprang up after the first world war. This titanic exhibition explores the art that made them, exploding myths along the way
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Don Van Vliet: Standing on One Hand
An exhibition of oil paintings by the artist formerly known as Captain Beefheart has a strange allure, as long as you don’t think too hard
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Jaeeun Choi: La Vita Nuova
With projects including plans to drop seed bombs on Korea to studying what happens to paper if you bury it for years, this retrospective looks back over Choi’s 40-year career and her passion for nature and ecology
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Stepping Softly on the Earth
Twenty artists, mostly non-western and indigenous, consider how dam projects, diamond mining, monoculture and other human interventions have affected their lands and way of life
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Shezad Dawood: Leviathan
The gothic majesty of Salisbury Cathedral provides a suitable home for Dawood’s apocalyptic cycle
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Kim Lim: Space, Rhythm & Light
Strong, single-minded and uncompromising, Lim made a significant contribution to 20th-century British sculpture, but her work has been sadly overlooked since her death. This major museum show is a chance to put that right
