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Devan Shimoyama – interview: ‘I use my body to explore magic, mythology, history, intimacy, joy, pain’

His portraits consider the black, queer, male body from a personal perspective that is as informed by mythology and folklore as it is by everyday life. Shimoyama talks here about his new solo exhibition, Shh … at De Buck Gallery…
Martin Parr – Interview: ‘Britain is eternally fascinating … full of contradictions … Photographing it is a form of therapy’

Documentary photographer Martin Parr’s latest exhibition, Only Human, at the National Portrait Gallery, is all about us – us humans, but especially us British. Here, he talks about cake, collecting and Britain in the time of Brexit
The Armory Show 2019

From historical displays to recent works by relatively unknown artists, from performance to installation, from politically provocative and conceptual pieces to ornamental presentations, this year’s Armory presented a well-measured display of opposing – even conflicting – trends within the art…
Julie Mehretu: Drawings and Monotypes

In these new works, Mehretu plunges the viewer into her phenomenological, immersive methodology and her mark-making serves to release your own rich store of memories and associations
Katie Birkwood – interview: ‘The bodies of society’s disadvantaged, the poor and people of colour, were most likely to be used and abused without consent’

The Royal College of Physicians’ exhibition of anatomical illustrations, from medieval times to the present day, reveals the intersecting histories of medicine, art and politics, explains Under the Skin’s curator, Katie Birkwood
Hew Locke – interview: ‘A lot of my work has to do with the burden of history and … how history affects us today’

Hew Locke discusses monarchy, nationhood, bigotry, boats, Brexit and the seductive silliness of TV’s historical dramas, before the opening of his show at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Barby Asante – interview: ‘There was real pleasure running through the declarations – we’re trying to influence’

With Declaration of Independence at the Baltic, Asante makes space for womxn of colour to relate narratives and reflect on the nature of independence
Protest and Remembrance: Miriam de Búrca | Joy Gerrard | Mary Griffiths | Barbara Walker

Drawings by four contemporary female artists explore notions of protest and remembrance, from anti-Brexit marches to unconsecrated Irish burial sites, and forgotten black soldiers to former collieries in the north of England
Power Play

With work from artists from South Korea, Europe and the United Arab Emirates, this exhibition considers the nation state and the geopolitics of globalisation
Barbara Walker – interview: ‘From the moment I make the first mark, I’ve already said goodbye’

Walker scours archives for images on which to base her drawings of black soldiers. She talks here as she creates a wall drawing for the show Protest and Remembrance at Alan Cristea
Mary Griffiths – interview: ‘I extrapolate a drawing that has some resonance with part of the structure I’ve been looking at’

In Protest and Remembrance at Alan Cristea, with her large abstract works of plywood, acrylic gesso and graphite, Griffiths aims to capture the splendour of the working-class engineering at a former colliery
Joy Gerrard – interview: ‘I’m interested in how we witness and interpret these events’

In her depictions of mass protests, Gerrard aims to make visible those who attend. For Protest and Remembrance at Alan Cristea, she focuses on anti-Trump and anti-Brexit marches
Miriam de Búrca – interview: ‘The sites themselves are very charged: very beautiful but also very tragic’

With her detailed drawings of plants growing on the graves of Ireland’s excommunicates and other unblessed souls, De Búrca, now on show in Protest and Remembrance at Alan Cristea, hopes to restore the dignity of those the Catholic church abandoned
Kip Gresham: The Art of Collaboration

This exhibition shows 40 years of work made by master printmaker Kip Gresham in collaboration with some of the best-known artists from Britain and beyond
Jan Tschichold and the New Typography

Drawing on materials Tschichold collected, this exhibition traces his influence on graphic design between the world wars and his belief that design was a force for social change
A beautiful thing: Sauerbruch Hutton’s M9 Museum in Mestre opens

Italy’s first all-digital history museum, M9, has opened across from Venice. With its sleek, ceramic-tiled buildings and inspired public spaces, its architect, Sauerbruch Hutton, has made quite a statement
Magdalene Odundo: The Journey of Things

The Kenyan-born artist’s lustrous ceramics become the anchor for a voyage through three millennia of objects and artworks
Sara Piccinini – interview: ‘We don’t want to give an idea of completeness with this exhibition, that’s not our goal’

In 2007, the formidable art collection of Achille Maramotti, the man behind the Max Mara fashion house, was opened to the public. Sara Piccinini, senior coordinator of the collection, talks about the history of the collection, and the thinking behind…
Phoebe Boswell – interview: ‘Grief is not a personal thing. It’s a human condition’

Boswell’s latest exhibition, The Space Between Things, which includes a video of her undergoing an eye operation, uses art as a way to connect with others whose wounds may otherwise remain unseen
All The Rembrandts

For the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death, the Rijksmuseum is staging a once-in-a-generation exhibition – 22 paintings, 60 drawings and 300 prints. It is extraordinary, revealing, inspiring – and a little overwhelming
Phyllida Barlow: Cul-de-Sac

This exhibition of new work is more pared back than we have come to expect from Barlow. Her aim, she says, is ‘to come back to what is essential’
Ghislaine Leung: Constitution

In Leung’s new installation, it is clear she has a point to make. Just what that point is, though, is not so clear
Julianne Swartz interview – ‘Joy is also talking about sorrow and despair, so we will know what joy is’

Swartz talks about Joy, Still, her site-specific sound installation at Grace Farms, and how the multi-use centre in Connecticut, designed by the Japanese-based firm Sanaa, became her instrument
Imre Bak – interview: ‘In today’s language, we need to achieve some kind of balance between the local and the global’

The neo-avant-gardist recalls cold war isolation, his enduring commitment to geometric abstraction, and the importance of maintaining Hungarian traditions in his art