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Gabriel Chaile and Laura Ojeda Bär – interview: ‘We’re really into the power of art to transform and transmute places and objects and people’

Gabriel Chaile’s first institutional solo show in the UK sees him covering an old chapel in adobe mud and inviting his friend, Laura Ojeda-Bar, to contribute her own characterful paintings, creating a multisensory environment of intimacy and welcome
David Remfry – interview: ‘It’s unprecedented that there were no arguments whatsoever this year’

At 80 years old, David Remfry was just coming to terms with the opportunity to co-ordinate the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition having passed him by. Then he got a phone call from the President …
Eileen Cooper – interview: ‘I’d always avoided looking back … but it’s been fascinating’

As an exhibition of her previously unseen early works on paper opens at Huxley-Parlour in London, Cooper talks about the importance of drawing, the women’s movement, and the relevance of these particular intimate images to the development of her style…
Thomas J Price at the V&A

His sculptures, fusions of ordinary people, overturn tradition in their material and scale, challenging our preconceptions and prejudices about Black people in visual culture
Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden

Rego’s giant mural, a bold riposte to patriarchy, with its strong female figures drawn from myths, fables, biblical stories and even gallery staff, is shown here along with the altarpiece that inspired it
Ferdinand Hodler: Drawings – Selections from the Musée Jenisch Vevey

This small but illuminating show is a superb reintroduction to a sadly neglected artist, focusing on Hodler’s rarely shown drawings, with his beautifully delineated figures and romantic landscapes
Joe Tilson – book review

Marco Livingstone’s monograph, with more than 600 illustrations, weaves biographical detail with an authority of British art history in a definitive account of this important artist
Venice Architecture Biennale 2023: The Laboratory of the Future

This year’s curator, the Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko, has brought new insights and perspectives, prioritising representation from Africa and the diaspora. The works on show serve to highlight the role architecture plays in expressing the best and worst of humanity
Naudline Pierre: This Is Not All There Is

Pierre draws us into her own uncanny mythical world underpinned by spirituality in a show that focuses on her works on paper
A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography

Africa’s diverse cultural traditions, the history of modern colonialism and present-day social, political and environmental concerns are at the heart of this striking exhibition