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A New Era: Scottish Modern Art, 1900-1950

At a time when the UK’s relationship with the rest of Europe is at stake, this exhibition of the artistic dialogue between Scotland and the continent is illuminating and inspiring
Art Now: Marguerite Humeau: Echoes

French-born artist Marguerite Humeau resurrects an eerie voice from the ancient past at Tate Britain. And she adds in some exotic fluids for good measure
Threesome and 3X3

Curator Anna McNay has put together two exhibitions – Threesome, a collaboration between three female painters, and 3X3, photographic self-portraits by nine queer female artists – which explore the female gaze with the aim of ‘making people question how they…
The Land We Live In – The Land We Left Behind

With an extraordinary diversity of work, from medieval Korean ceramics to cutting-edge conceptual art to Women’s Institute tea towels, this show aims to dispel the myth of the rural as a picturesque backwater, and assert its right as a vital…
Lumiere London 2018

Featuring works by 50 artists and digital / lighting studios and producers, this feast of light and sound turned London into a spectacular, highly photogenic, pulsing theme park. But in its efforts to maximise entertainment, it fell short on actual…
Cézanne Portraits

A deep humanity surfaces in this outstanding exhibition of more than 50 of Cézanne’s portraits
A History of Drawing

The inaugural exhibition at the Camberwell College of Arts’ new space is a sensitive, nuanced look at eight decades of a core artistic form
What Absence Is Made Of

This exhibition brings together more than 70 works from the Hirshhorn’s collection in an attempt to explore how artists attempt to show what absence looks like
Edmund Clark: ‘The intervention, the control, the censorship is part of what I do’

Edmund Clark discusses his recent residency at the UK’s only wholly therapeutic prison, HMP Grendon; his time spent on Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan; and how intervention and censorship have become a part of his work
Tabita Rezaire: ‘Reclamation allowed me to glow into my blackness, womanhood and queerness’

Tabita Rezaire talks about ‘decolonial healing’, her response to cyber-racism and the distorted representation of black people on the internet, communication technologies from the spiritual world, and empowering artists to have self-respect
Philip Pearlstein: Paintings 1990 – 2017

Philip Pearlstein’s nudes are a triumph of draughtsmanship and the product of a lifetime of learning and graft. And although he strives for images devoid of stories, this skill betrays a more enigmatic world
Anne de Boer & ecksenis.net: System Attempt Contact

System Attempt Contact critiques the way today’s tech multinationals transcend the borders between global and local, city and suburb, on- and offline
Charles II: Art and Power

The Royal Collection’s exploration of the Merrie Monarch is a historical exhibition par excellence, presenting the king as a gateway to the art, culture and advances of the Restoration
Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (UABB) 2017: Cities, Grow in Difference

This biennale is determined to take account of residents, focusing on micro-housing and smaller residential complexes and involving community as much as architecture
Torbjørn Rødland: Back in Touch

Secrets lurk in Rødland’s photographs, but in chasing the thrill of the secret, his images fall short of the desired effect
John Piper

A lopsided retrospective reveals an artist who thrived best when he was commissioned or working in collaboration
Sriwhana Spong: a hook but no fish

Spong explores the invented language of Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th-century mystic. Over the Pump House Gallery’s four storeys, boundaries of sense are undone and remade – drawing the viewer into a history that cuts through the present
Bharti Kher: ‘In the way a kitchen has many different things cooking at the same time, so does my studio’

Kher talks about the difficulty of being identified as an ‘Indian’ artist, being a procrastinator, and making material things do things they don’t want to
Peter Hill: ‘I have a love for the solitude of lighthouses at one extreme and the energy of Chicago or Berlin at the other’

The artist talks about his creation of a fictional museum, his current lecture tour, Fake News + Superfictions, and the artists who have influenced him
Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection

A museum committed to the art of the American South presents an exhibition that highlights the contributions of postwar and contemporary African-American artists in order to assert their place within mainstream modernist narratives
Peter Doig

The Scottish painter’s latest works are as beautiful as ever, but exhibit a newfound looseness, playfulness and sense of violence
Sofia Stevi: Turning forty winks into a decade

Greek artist Sofia Stevi’s paintings ooze confidence, sensuality and an improvisational spontaneity. Yet her flair and inventiveness with a paintbrush are something of a recent discovery – to Stevi as well as to the rest of us
From Life

This exhibition sets out to explore the significance of life drawing and the life class in art practice, but the real joy of drawing is largely overlooked
Latif Al Ani: ‘I was documenting for the sake of archiving. I never thought Iraq would arrive at what it has today’

The Iraqi photographer considers his photographic preservation of a long-vanished Iraq, his preoccupation with beauty, and the desire to share his country’s pain with viewers