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  • Gustavo Pérez Monzón: ‘Interests, obsessions and people keep appearing in my life’

    The Cuban artist discusses his return to production, a fascination with the systems of arcane sciences and why teaching and practice are born of the same spirit of enquiry

  • Brent Wadden: ‘I love a good happy accident. The mistakes end up being integral to each piece’

    The artist talks about Sympathetic Resonance, his new show at Pace, why he refers to his weaving as painting, and trawling websites daily in search of secondhand yarn

  • Programmed: Rules, Codes and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018

    From Nam June Paik’s 1960s experiments to alter images on a TV screen to Ian Cheng’s use of chatbots and Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki’s comments on celebrity-making through software that tracks Twitter feeds for reality TV shows, this exhibition…

  • London 1938: Defending ‘Degenerate’ Art

    In 1938, a year after the notorious Nazi exhibition of “degenerate art” in Munich, a counter exhibition in London showed works by 65 of the defamed artists. Eighty years on, this retrospective looks back at that exhibition, its organisers, the…

  • Zoe Leonard: Aerials

    Leonard’s stripped-back black-and-white aerial photographs take us back to a simpler time

  • Martin Creed: ‘You’re at the mercy of these feelings you don’t have any control over’

    Creed spoke to us at the opening of his new show, Toast, which includes a dancing sock, a painting that moves in and out of the room and a troupe of singers, along with new drawings, videos, paintings, textiles and…

  • Fernand Léger – New Times, New Pleasures

    Léger is regarded as the father of pop art and, despite his harrowing experiences during the first world war, the works here reflect a sense of optimism

  • Mariko Mori: Oneness

    The Moongate Garden at the Sackler Gallery provided a magical backdrop for Mariko Mori’s performance of Oneness for the gallery’s annual fundraiser

  • Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse

    In this fascinating show, large-scale immersive installations track visitors’ heartbeats and translate them into flashing lights, rippling waves and soundscapes

  • Emma Hart: Banger

    In a playful, rebellious show that explores the sinister and surreal of the everyday, the London-based artist Emma Hart turns to clay and chaos in her first Scottish exhibition

  • Gordon Matta-Clark: Works 1970-1978

    Using films, photo collages and reconstructions, this show brings back to life the pioneering work of the artist-architect who turned art into a social project in 1970s New York

  • Robyn Denny: Paintings from the 1960s

    Roche Court’s presentation of Robyn Denny’s mysterious and enigmatic 60s abstract paintings runs alongside Neil Gall’s collages based on Studio magazine and his collage inspired cut-out paintings

  • The Quick & the Dead

    This exhibition brings together the works of a formidable group of artists whose friendship has inspired some compelling portraits

  • Christo: ‘Art is useless’

    Famed for wrapping massive structures, great bodies of water and chunks of coastline as well as monumental  sculptures built from oil drums, Christo, who collaborated with his wife Jeanne-Claude until her death in 2009 – and still talks about her…

  • Renoir Father and Son: Painting and Cinema

    An exhibition exploring the shared motifs, subjects and settings of paintings and films by Pierre-August Renoir and his film director son Jean demonstrates how all too often, what in youth we think we want to escape, in adulthood we want…

  • The sky’s the limit: OMA and Bjarke Ingels reinvent Stockholm’s residential accommodation

    With two new luxury blocks of flats, OMA and Bjarke Ingels Group have added their architectural signatures to the Stockholm skyline. But are these apartments for the affluent really what Stockholm needs?

  • Gainsborough’s Family Album

    The National Portrait Gallery introduces us to Thomas Gainsborough’s colourful family in a beautifully realised exhibition

  • Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts

    This retrospective helps us understand Nauman as an artist who turns attention to himself, his body and his image as an object of exploration in its relation to time, place and history

  • Funda Gül Özcan: ‘I was like a sponge to soak up their tears’

    Özcan talks about her recent installation at a bar in Graz, extraterrestrials, the Kosovo war, artworks that function like pop songs and why men confide in her

  • Magical Unicorns

    Throughout history, unicorns have borne the power of intrigue and attraction, and this brief chronology, centring on the Musée de Cluny’s six medieval tapestries, The Lady and the Unicorn, showcases some of the highlights of artistic response

  • Michelangelo Pistoletto: Origins and Consequences

    A well-defined exhibition at Mazzoleni, London, trains its eye on Michelangelo Pistoletto’s incipient figurative experiments and their aftermaths

  • Lotte Laserstein: Face to Face

    Lotte Laserstein was a rising star of Weimar Berlin, forced to leave her country and abandon her artistic aspirations, but with this exhibition of highlights from her peak, there is hope that her name may yet not be forgotten

  • Paula Becker and Otto Modersohn: Art and Life

    A tender testament to the relationship of two artists, whose lives and work are inextricably linked, bringing to life the moor landscapes of northern Germany

  • I am Ashurbanipal: King of the World, King of Assyria

    I am Ashurbanipal tells the story of an educated Assyrian king with a brutal streak