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True Colours: Helen Beard, Sadie Laska and Boo Saville

True Colours, curated by Damien Hirst for his Newport Street Gallery in London, shows works by Helen Beard, Sadie Laska and Boo Saville. We talked to the three artists about the works they have in the show
Boo Saville: interview

Boo Saville’s fields of colour shimmer, each massive painting drawing you in and, once you are up close, their surfaces seem to conjure immersive spaces, as though the air has suddenly been coloured and there is space to fall in.…
Sadie Laska: interview

New York-based Sadie Laska, who is both a painter and a drummer, brings her improvisation skills into her wall-based works, using collage, small objects and brushed colour in flight. Each work embraces the tactility of materials and the motion of…
Helen Beard: interview

Helen Beard’s striking and marvellously simplified, flat colour images, take you by surprise in a number of ways. The fresh colour forms pack a satisfying punch even before the viewer has undergone the gradual realisation that the paintings portray a…
Thomas Cole: Eden to Empire

A fresh look at the paintings of British émigré Thomas Cole reveals some eerily relevant messages for our current times
Whitstable Biennale 2018

Surreal, witty and at times unsettling, Whitstable Biennale 2018 is full of surprises
Catherine Parsonage: ‘I wanted to break things apart, let everything be available to me’

The artist talks about how living in Rome has changed her work, why she is so interested in bodily fluids, and the role that alcohol and desire play in her painting
Eve Fowler: ‘Stein’s work really affected me’

The artist talks about her latest exhibition, What a slight, what a sound, what a universal shudder, at Dundee Arts Contemporary, and what has led her to engage so closely with Stein’s work
Katharina Grosse: Prototypes of imagination

Across 11 portrait canvases and one enormous fabric hanging, Grosse’s complex, multilayered works appear as seemingly prehistoric scrawls, imbued with vital energy in a maelstrom of colours
Manuel Mathieu: ‘Life experience sometimes forces you to see things that you wouldn’t otherwise have seen’

The Haitian artist talks about coming to terms with his country’s turbulent history and some personal challenges, and why he doesn’t take the business of making art lightly
James Edgar and Sam Walker: ‘We think of Assembly Point as part of our collaborative practice’

James Edgar and Sam Walker talk about Assembly Point, their co-founded gallery, studio space and publishing company, which they set up in 2015 in south London
Junya Ishigami: Freeing Architecture

In his attempts to untether architecture from well-worn conventions, the Japanese architect liberates the architectural expedition from its own stolid norms
August Sander: Men Without Masks

Taken together, the portraits shown here, captured by the German photographer between 1910 and 1931, are a quiet revelation, a unique and emotive window into the collected lives of his countrymen and women in the interwar period
Eleanor Pinfield: ‘London – and London Underground – deserves to have the best artists in the world’

Pinfield is Head of Art on the Underground, which has commissioned work by Cindy Sherman, David Shrigley and Assemble, among others. She talks about this year’s lineup of female artists and the desire to bring art to millions of travellers
Vera Molnár: ‘I have no regrets. My life is squares, triangles, lines’

The pioneer of computer-assisted art recounts her love affair with lines, the balancing of order and chaos, and preparing to be surprised
David Cross: ‘Art is what fills the gap between how the world is and how I’d love it to be’

A reader at the University of the Arts London, Cross talks about his struggle to persuade the university to cut ties with fossil fuel investments and his continuing efforts to bridge the gap between commerce and environmental ethics
Kerstin Brätsch_Ruine / Kaya_Kovo

Brätsch is an artist who works in the afterlife of modern painting, upending its history and mythology with Rabelaisian glee – and her latest exhibition is no exception
Phyllida Barlow: ‘It’s the first time I’ve experienced making something not within my control. Letting go of that was horrifying’

As her first permanent artwork, Quarry is unveiled at Jupiter Artland, outside Edinburgh, Barlow talks about its conception and creation, its location in the woods surrounding the house and gardens, and the ‘horrifying’ experience of ceding control to engineers and…
Joana Vasconcelos: Gateway

Vasconcelos’s solo show offers a riot of colour and texture in this highly personal, curated sculpture park, celebrating the duality – the glamour and the grind, the dreams and the heartbreak – that typifies women’s lives, on a monumental scale
Callum Innes: Byzantine Blue, Delft Blue, Paris Blue

Five of Innes’ paintings form the inaugural exhibition for the Ingleby gallery’s new space, an austere building formerly used for worship that has been beautifully refurbished. Together, the art and architecture provide a fitting 20th-anniversary celebration for the gallery
Contemporary Chinese Works on Paper – A Review

A microcosm of Chinese art and social change at Ipswich Art Gallery – this group show of works on paper by contemporary artists from China draws on, plays with and subverts the canons of art history from both the east…
Nigel Shafran: Work Books 1984-2018

Newly established gallery project Sion and Moore combines the creative experiences of its two founders with the craft of designer Michael Marriott, achieving an intriguing environment in which to view Nigel Shafran’s tantalising Work Books
Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)

A colossal retrospective at the Louvre liberates the French romantic from his early history painting and reaffirms his lofty place in the pantheon
Celia Pym – interview: ‘I didn’t ever see the point of invisible mending’

Describing herself as ‘an artist who works in textiles’ Pym talks about her recent surgery for mending at the V&A, why she mends old clothes and artefacts, and why she feels it is so important to see the damage and…