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MC Escher

A blockbuster exhibition takes us into the mind-bending world of the Dutch printmaker. But is it art or sideshow attraction?
UVA Synchronicity

United Visual Artists celebrates 20 years since its conception with eight stunning, large-scale, multisensory installations that fuse light, music and texts to challenge our perception of reality
Smithsonian American Art Museum: new look, new mission

In September, the Smithsonian American Art Museum reopened its modern and contemporary galleries following a redesign, with a pledge to highlight art and artists excluded in the past. We take a tour to see what made the cut
Ibrahim Mahama – interview: ‘It’s not so much about what you produce, but about the relationships that are created in the process’

He is showing at the Bienal de São Paulo and the Chicago Architecture Biennial and is artistic director of this year’s Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, but his real passion, he says, is the creative and cultural infrastructure he is…
Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia and Friends

Conviviality and friendship shine through this group show exploring the works of Li Yuan-chia and that of the artist friends he showed at his LYC Museum and Art Gallery in Cumbria. Plus: contemporary artists reflect on his legacy
Hej Rup! The Czech Avant-Garde

This show is full of revelations – cubism in furniture, a love for tubular steel designs and a self-sufficient village for workers are just a few of those that mark the Czech art world as presented here
Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990

From women’s lib to the Greenham Common camps, this powerful show covers to two decades in which women rose up in protest – and their concerns are as relevant today as they were 50 years ago
Sara Reisman – interview: ‘This was an opportunity to engage with contemporary issues that interest our members and to work with artists and architects from the larger art community’

Sara Reisman, chief curator at the National Academy of Design, talks about the institution’s 200-year history and its aims for the future, and picks out some favourites from its current show, Drawing as Practice
Zarina Bhimji: Flagging It Up

Her quietly reflective films and photographs, with their evocative use of colour and light, are things of beauty, but their true depth and meaning are only revealed on slow looking
Elias Sime: Eregata እርጋታ

In the Ethiopian artist’s first major European museum exhibition, labour-intensive works made from discarded electronic components sit alongside clay vessels and mud-and-straw sculptures, prompting us to reconsider the role of technology in our lives