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  • Bartosz Beda: interview: ‘In chaos, there is always some kind of order’

    Beda, whose solo show Echoes of Seasons is at the Art Gallery of Collin College in Plano, Texas, talks about his process, the thoughts behind his current works – and how he is influenced by his eastern European background

  • A Spirit Inside

    Anchoring this jewel of a show is a diminutive work by Dora Carrington and, like the rest of the selection of works by female artists here, it is grouped with immense care and attention, allowing for unexpected dialogues between quite…

  • Turner Prize 2023

    Four very different artists are contending for this year’s prize – Jesse Darling, Ghislaine Leung, Rory Pilgrim and Barbara Walker – with subjects including the Windrush scandal, our dysfunctional world and mental healthcare

  • Avery Singer – interview: ‘Art got me through some really dark places and still does’

    Singer was 14 on 9/11 and what she witnessed took its toll on her mental health. Her experience of that day has informed Free Fall, her ambitious solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London, which considers the power of memory…

  • Marina Abramović takes over London

    ‘Four months ago I was in a coma… if I’d died, I’d be the only dead female artist in 250 years showing at the Royal Academy!’

  • Hiroshi Sugimoto: Playing With Fire

    Sugimoto, known for his meticulously crafted photographs, here extends his experimentation with the medium as a result of returning to his New York studio after a three-year absence due to the Covid pandemic

  • Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas

    Raucous, bawdy, sweary and crude, this major survey comprises works that are not always easy to stomach, but which make an important comment on our experiences of sex, class and gender

  • Eleanna Anagnos and Alexis Granwell: Shift. Breathe. Expand. Painting in Space

    This apposite pairing of two conceptually rigorous artists provokes myriad questions about process, composition and the materiality of paper

  • Hélio Oiticica: Waiting for the internal sun

    A concise survey of the genre-hopping Brazilian artist shows him breaking new ground, even as his life took an unexpected turn

  • Double Weave: Bourne and Allen’s Modernist Textiles

    Partners in life and work, they supplied fabrics to Heal’s and Liberty, as well as for the film Ben-Hur and the interior of the Royal Festival Hall, yet Hilary Bourne and Barbara Allen are largely forgotten. This show makes clear…