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Godwin Bradbeer: ‘the work must have both physical presence and an enigmatic residual beauty’

Bradbeer talks about his technique, why he works on a large scale and what drawing means to him – and reveals his secret to engaging cynical students
Breathing Colour by Hella Jongerius

This brilliant show from Dutch industrial designer Jongerius aims to ‘tickle the eyes of the viewer’, exploring how colour behaves and is affected by shape, texture and light
Scythians: Warriors of Ancient Siberia

The Scythians are coming to the British Museum this autumn and we have more in common with these ancient nomads than you might imagine, as curator St John Simpson explains
Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry

The organisers of this exhibition are keen to show how the Dutch genre painters both drew inspiration from one another and were spurred on by rivalry, but this intention is undercut by the paintings of Vermeer. The others painted for…
Maryam Najd: ‘I became interested in reaching a certain perfectionism in how you use paint’

Iranian-born artist Maryam Najd talks about identity and culture in her practice, her love of materials and her Non Existence Flag Project, which was due to be exhibited in Beijing this autumn, until the Chinese Ministry of Education banned the…
Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity

A capacious retrospective of the long-neglected Victorian academician uncovers a master of the sensuous with a surprising knack for experimentation
A Perfect Chemistry: Photographs by Hill and Adamson

A celebration of collaboration, friendship and innovative spirit, A Perfect Chemistry illuminates the groundbreaking photography produced by David Hill and Robert Adamson in early-19th century Scotland, and the touching story surrounding its production
Sol Calero: ‘It’s important that the aesthetics don’t eat the concept’

Beneath the colourful painted surfaces of Sol Calero’s immersive installations, there are deeper, politically informed concepts for those who take the time to unpick the layers
Santiago Sierra: Impenetrable Structure

The controversial Spanish artist returns to London with a new site-specific installation that continues his interest in borders and displacement
Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings: ‘Our work poses questions that bridge the gap between the past, present and future of queer culture in the UK’

The collaborative duo talk about their film UK Gay Bar Directory, which is showing at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool as part of its exhibition Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender and Identity
Julián Zugazagoitia: ‘Museums should generate interest and open a door that leads to further learning’

Since 2010, when Zugazagoitia joined the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, visitor numbers have soared. Now, having received a gift that has almost doubled the size of the museum’s former collection of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, and a major renovation, he…
Simon Patterson: ‘It’s about you filling in the gaps … the viewer completes the work and keeps changing it’

Simon Patterson talks about his show Safari: An Exhibition as Expedition, at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, and about the concepts that inform his work
Julian Lethbridge: Inside Out

The 13 new paintings by Julian Lethbridge, now on show in Berlin, are works of virtuosity and dedication, and provide a captivating and absorbing demonstration of a painter exploring his unique approach to the fullest
Hans Hansen: Still Life

This survey of six decades of the work of German photographer Hans Hansen, perhaps best known for his photographs of a dismantled Volkswagen Beetle and later a Golf, revels in his eye for surface texture, purity of form and iconographic…
Matisse in the Studio

This exhibition tells the story of Matisse’s collecting habits, but fails to conjure up the joy of discovery
Harold Cohen: ‘I was probably the only person who considered the computer to be potentially an autonomous art-making entity’

Pioneer of computer art Harold Cohen died last year at the age of 87. In 2015, in one of the last interviews of his life, he talked to Studio International about his long career
Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium

This inspiring retrospective at the Whitney captures the sensuous resonance of Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica’s work, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in the life-affirming spirit of his oeuvre
Guy Yanai: ‘Every work that leaves my studio is part of an inexhaustible autobiography’

The Israeli artist Guy Yanai explains the stories behind the bold, colourful oil paintings in Speak, America, his solo exhibition in New York, and talks about being influenced by Vladimir Nabokov, David Hockney and Matisse
Damien Hirst: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable

The YBA’s watery comeback dazzles with its extravagance, but the audacity of Hirst’s exhibition only goes so far
Delving into coding: the art of Harold Cohen

Harold Cohen, who developed Aaron, one of the first and most complex software programs for computer-generated art, died last year at the age of 87. We look back at his achievements
Hanne Darboven: Korrespondenzen

An exhibition in Berlin uses a collection of correspondence to place the great German conceptualist Hanne Darboven in context
An interview with Marcel Duchamp

’[Marcel Duchamp:] …The whole of modern art—the Impressionists, the Fauves, the Cubists—the whole, except maybe the Surrealists, were retinal. Abstract expressionism was very retinal, and of course, Op art is very retinal. A little too retinal for one’s taste.’
Clare Woods: Victim of Geography

For her first solo exhibition in Scotland, the renowned British artist Clare Woods presents 11 striking new paintings
Bill Viola Retrospective

Bill Viola’s strength is in using the video camera to get under the viewer’s skin, peeling away what we think we know about reality. But now, it seems, he has been seduced by the technology of the medium, to the…