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Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason 1950-1980

At the risk of exposing the theme show as a curatorial conceit, this selection of work produced in the years opened to exploration and exclamation by war, drugs and social conflict reveals a new way of seeing it
Katriona Beales: ‘It’s not the internet that is malevolent, but the way behavioural psychology is employed to coerce compulsive use’

Following the opening of Are We All Addicts Now? at London’s Furtherfield, Katriona Beales, the exhibition’s lead artist, talks about the digital power to seduce and coerce
Thomas Schütte

Mixing familiar Schütte tropes with new ones, the great German sculptor’s first London show in five years parades his eclectic, disconcerting talents
Portrait of the Artist: Käthe Kollwitz

Celebrated in her native Germany, Käthe Kollwitz, born 150 years ago this year, is sadly little known in the UK, but this well-selected touring exhibition of nearly 40 of her prints seeks to put this oversight to rights
John Hoyland: Stain Paintings 1964–1966

This, the first New York exhibition of John Hoyland’s work in 25 years, brings together seven of his monumental stain paintings along with works on paper. Don’t miss it
James Richards: Music for the gift – Wales in Venice, 2017

Wales has always punched above its weight at the Biennale, and 2017 is no exception. This year – for its eighth successive appearance – the selected artist is James Richards, a multimedia artist whose work combines layers or fragments of…
Basquiat: Boom for Real

A revelatory exhibition at the Barbican liberates Jean-Michel Basquiat from his mythos and allows his art to speak for itself
Sara Barker: The faces of older images

Sara Barker’s exhibition of five wall-based relief sculptures, which opens Mary Mary’s new space in Glasgow city centre, continues her trademark fusion of sculpture and painting, abstraction and figuration, history and the present
Robert Longo: ‘I’m making artworks out of dust’

At his first solo exhibition in London, New York artist Robert Longo talks about charcoal, photography, violence and Donald Trump
Suspended Animation

Nine contemporary artists ask what has become of reality and physicality in the age of the virtual – and imagine human existence in a digital future
Ross Birrell: ‘I saw a possible way to draw a relationship between art and emancipatory politics’

Ross Birrell talks horses, endurance and taking risks in relation to two works for Documenta, his film Criollo and The Athens-Kassel Ride: The Transit of Hermes, a procession of horses and riders on a 1,850-mile journey, which he describes as…
Lucas Arruda: ‘The only reason to call my works landscapes is cultural’

On the occasion of his first London exhibition, at David Zwirner, Lucas Arruda discusses his almost pathological pursuit of a particular theme, revealing the macro within the micro, and how his imaginary landscapes are states of mind suspended in paint
José Pedro Croft: Uncertain Measure – Venice Biennale 2017

For his Portugal Venice Biennale commission, artist José Pedro Croft has made a series of six glass-and-steel sculptures that lurch and loom around the gardens of Villa Hériot, on the Giudecca. He talks about the uniquely Venetian dialogue between precariousness…
It’s How Well You Bounce

In the grounds of the UK’s first hospital to treat people with mental illness, lie a fascinating museum and gallery. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Bethlem Gallery is holding an exhibition of work by those, including Grayson Perry, who…
Peter Halstead: ‘People should have their own personal adventure with sculpture’

Cathy and Peter Halstead talk about Tippet Rise Art Center, the remarkable music venue and sculpture park they set up on a vast ranch in the wilds of Montana, and their desire to create a place with the potential for…
Shilpa Gupta: ‘I am always playing with the idea of the location in the work’

The Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta talks about her practice, notions of identity and nation states, and how she prefers her work to be called ‘everyday art’ rather than terming it political
Folkestone Triennial 2017

The fourth triennial outing for this slowly regenerating UK seaside town sees curator Lewis Biggs invite a multicultural cast of artists, architects and activists to bring their sonic, sculptural, performative and visual talents to bear in revealing new perspectives on…
Jonathan Wright: Fleet on Foot

Local artist Jonathan Wright delved deep into local narratives to devise his tribute to the local fishing community, Fleet on Foot. Studio International discusses the origins of this celebration of the town’s remaining fishing fleet
Emily Peasgood: Halfway to Heaven

Emily Peasgood’s sound piece Halfway to Heaven is set in a Baptist graveyard, a high hump of soil, weeds and tumbling headstones wedged between a road and a terrace of houses. Studio International talked to her about its inspiration and…
Studio Ben Allen: The Clearing

On the first floor cafe/bar of Folkestone’s Quarterhouse, a performance venue for music, theatre, dance and comedy, architect Ben Allen has created an ornate gothic pavilion as a “visitor centre” for the triennial. The Clearing was inspired by a request…
Klimt and Antiquity: Erotic Encounters

Bringing together works by Gustav Klimt with pottery, sculptures and texts from late classical antiquity, this insightful exhibition charts the influence of the ancient Attic artists on the Austrian secessionist, in particular in providing material for the development of his…
Gerfried Stocker: ‘The first time I went to Ars Electronica Festival was mind-blowing’

Gerfried Stocker talks about going from being a media artist influenced by Ars Electronica to becoming its artistic director and the mind behind its organisation
Daniel Richter: Lonely Old Slogans

German painter Daniel Richter’s first UK solo show reveals uncomfortable truths about human expression, voyeurism and isolation
Chris Alton: ‘By bringing different artists together, there is the possibility to amplify particular political ideas’

Curator and artist Chris Alton talks about his latest venture, You’re Surrounded By Me, which weaves together contemporary issues such as climate change, protest and the subversion of heraldry