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Kader Attia: The Museum of Emotion

Attia offers an impassioned critique of the enduring effects of colonialism. Central to the French-Algerian artist’s sculptures, installation, collages, videos and photographs is the idea of post-colonial repair, as both a physical and symbolic act
Erwin Wurm – interview: ‘I’m horrified about our environment, about our future’

The Austrian sculptor, famed for sheathing social commentary in comic forms, talks about absurdity, handicraft, the mass media and the future
Makeshift

Through site-specific installations, this visually splendid exhibition explores the role of the artist’s studio in contemporary practices
Htein Lin – interview: ‘I wanted to show that I could also continue to create while in jail’

Htein Lin was imprisoned for challenging the military dictatorship in Myanmar. Here, he talks about his time in jail and his sculptural installation A Show of Hands, a testament to former political prisoners, now on show at the Albright-Knox Art…
Netherlands ⇄ Bauhaus: Pioneers of a New World

This show celebrates the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus, guiding you through the fascinating history of a movement that still has enduring relevance
Harald Sohlberg: Painting Norway

Harald Sohlberg’s paintings of Norwegian houses and snowy mountains are saturated with colour and mystery, making Dulwich Picture Gallery’s exhibition of his work the perfect way to see out the winter months
Nari Ward – interview: ‘I wouldn’t be the artist I am now if I hadn’t moved to Harlem’

We the People, Nari Ward’s latest exhibition, at New Museum, New York, underlines the critical role the city has played in his career. Here, he discusses the importance of Harlem, the neighbourhood that continues to inform his work
Nguyen Trinh Thi – interview: ‘I want to unpick the way we look at things’

The Vietnamese film-maker talks about documenting female spirits, regional journalism and the ecological destruction of Vietnam’s heartlands
Eva van Tongeren – interview: ‘When Thomas writes about his crime so beautifully, the crime is disguised by beauty’

Corresponding with a jailed paedophile led Van Tongeren to collaborate with him to make a film. She discusses their relationship and the moral and ethical implications of working with someone who has committed such a heinous crime
Christine Lindey – interview: ‘The artists’ principled adherence to their political convictions motivated them to resist conforming to the dominant cultural power’

Christine Lindey, author of Art for All. British Socially Committed Art from the 1930s to the Cold War, discusses an era of artists committed to their political beliefs and prepared to take a stand with their work
Jeff Koons

From a balloon bunny to a vast, glossy pink Venus of Willendorf, there is everything we would expect from Koons at his latest exhibition at the Ashmolean – but there is also a sense that he has run out of…
Elevation 1049: Frequencies

Set in the spectacular alpine resort of Gstaad, the Elevation 1049 festival explores contemporary art practice. This year it focused on performance art, with a programme of works over one weekend, and a new Doug Aitken installation, Mirage Gstaad, which…
Vivian Maier: The Color Work

The Color Work continues the institutional recovery of Maier, whose street photographs of New York and Chicago documented social reality during the cold war era
Don McCullin

McCullin is widely known as a war photographer, but this comprehensive and unflinching exhibition, covering 60 years of his photojournalism and more, shows the full scope of his work
Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Builder of Fantasy

Deer-headed lodges, globe-shaped temples, sunken pleasure pavilions: a long-overdue exhibition at the Petit Palais unravels the dreamlike world of Lequeu, Revolutionary France’s most eccentric and enigmatic visionary architect
Joseph Hillier – video interview: ‘Figurative sculpture in a public space presents a real opportunity to stir something in people’

Sculptor Joseph Hillier talks about his most ambitious project to date, its design, and what it takes to construct a bronze that weighs 9.5 tonnes
Phil Collins – interview: the artist who brought a statue of Engels from Ukraine to Manchester

The artist talks about his latest exhibition, Ceremony, which documents the statue’s journey, and explains why Engels has such relevance in contemporary Britain
We Are the People. Who Are You?

As the UK wrestles with Brexit, this show, with the feel of a mini-institutional survey on artists responding to the technological ravaging of liberal democracy, could not have come at a better time
Beatrice Gibson: Crone Music

Crone Music features two new films by London-based artist Beatrice Gibson. Exploring themes of motherhood and queer kinship, this show considers how one might endure, and finally resist, an unpredictable future
Daria Martin – interview: ‘Most people can relate to the feeling of being in exile’

The 2018 Jarman Award-winner talks about Franz Kafka, mirror-touch synaesthesia and her film Tonight the World, which involved curating her grandmother’s dreams
Andy Warhol and Eduardo Paolozzi: I want to be a machine

In the 1960s, Warhol and Paolozzi believed art would benefit from increasing mechanisation. This show looks at where their differing techniques took them
Stalking the Image: Margaret Tait and her Legacy

In the centenary year of Tait’s birth, this exhibition of short films celebrates her pioneering legacy alongside the work of younger artists whom she influenced
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018

From this annual showcase of new talent, we pick five artists to watch, from Yushi Li’s erotically charged photograph from her My Tinder Boys series to Madelynn Mae Green’s painting of three children on a bed
Turner in January

From storms thrashing lighthouses to mountaintops enveloped by cloud, from golden piazzas to the Italian Riviera, Turner’s delicate watercolours are stirring visions of the natural world