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Sheida Soleimani: ‘Does someone really want to buy an image of an executed woman and hang it in their home?’

Surrounded by her neon memorials to women killed in Iran, Soleimani discusses the state-sanctioned misogyny and human rights abuses there, and how she is trying to make people in the west aware of what is going on
Terrains of the Body: Photography from the National Museum of Women in the Arts

Building on the legacy of feminist art from the 1970s, this exhibition includes photographic and video works by 17 contemporary artists from five continents, from the 80s to today, presenting woman as creator and subject of her work
Ed Webb-Ingall: ‘I am a product of lesbian history and a child of section 28’

The video-maker talks about working with communities, his current work, We Have Rather Been Invaded, about section 28, which prohibited schools from promoting homosexuality – and the difference between being a parasite and a Trojan horse
Rezi van Lankveld: ‘I pour paint to make a “happening” in the painting’

The Dutch painter explains how her attitude to painting has changed and talks about her recent paintings, now on show at New York’s Petzel Gallery, which reveal a new focus on colour
The Studio and the Arts and Crafts Movement

This article was first published in High Art and Low Life: The Studio and the fin de siécle, a special centenary issue of Studio International (Volume 201, Number 1021/1023, 1993) that incorporated the catalogue to the 1993 exhibition High Art…
Strange Worlds: Visions of Angela Carter

To mark the 25th anniversary of Carter’s death, this exhibition brings together works that influenced the writer and works inspired by her, creating a visceral, violent and, at times, unpalatable celebration of magic realism and fairyland pornography
Sergei Eisenstein: Drawings, 1931-1948

Known as a film-maker, Eisenstein also excelled at drawing. This exhibition presents a rare collection of his sexually explicit drawings that have never before been shown publicly
Yves Klein

The alchemical French artist’s first UK retrospective in two decades reaffirms the cosmic wonder of his oeuvre
Bonnard: En toute intimité

This is an exhibition focusing on intimacy, which conjures just that in its thorough, yet tender, exploration of the people, objects and places close to the artist’s heart
Titus Kaphar: ‘My subconscious mind had created a fiction that masqueraded as a memory’

For his current exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, Titus Kaphar looks to historical portraiture, and imagery from the criminal justice system in his examination of how history is recorded
The founding of The Studio

In April 1893 a new art magazine entitled The Studio appeared in British newsagents. Subtitled an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art and costing sixpence, it rapidly established itself as one of the most enduring and successful art periodicals…
Aki Sasamoto: ‘I enjoy how much I can push meaning with the wrong answers’

New York-based performance artist Aki Sasamoto has a tendency to speak entirely in metaphor, sit in abstraction for hours, and mark her responses with a small question at the end: No? She asks, smiling. As though everything, at all times,…
Maria Nepomuceno: ‘I want to create a place where people can be suspended in time’

The Brazilian artist talks about her fascination with hammocks, her novel way of amalgamating painting and sculpture, and the power of ancestral connections
Manifesto (by Julian Rosefeldt with Cate Blanchett)

This superb cinematic production, in which Cate Blanchett brilliantly conjures 13 varying personas, takes us on a rapid tour through 20th-century avant-garde culture
Hedy Ritterman: ‘My motivation was to confront mortality, identity and loss, with memory’

Ritterman talks about how her current exhibition, which includes more than 700 of her late husband’s possessions, helped her come to terms with his death, and how she has conflated traditional Jewish mourning with her own personal version
Susannah Stark: ‘I like to create something that bears the trace of multiple worlds’

The artists talks about cultural memories, Spolia, swamps and Icelandic necropants
Gerasimos Floratos: Big Town

Gerasimos Floratos’s expressive paintings combine shapes and colour from his daily life in New York City, communicating his thoughts and interactions through characters painted in liquid colour
Hugo McCloud: ‘I respect the beauty in the things that are overlooked’

The emerging artist Hugo McCloud, whose layered abstract paintings concentrate on process and material, talks about his second solo show in New York
Carl Andre: Sculpture As Place, 1958-2010

This tribute to the 20th-century US artist includes sculptures, poems, photographs and works on paper. The impression is of a single-path doggedly followed, but, for all that, his works are hard to ignore
Caragh Thuring: ‘It’s a sort of standoff – how am I going to deal with this?’

The Brussels-born artist discusses reconstructing old paintings as tapestries to create new work, why she uses figures from adverts, and her love of bricks
Australia’s Impressionists

This exhibition highlights the paintings of four artists working at a crucial turning point in Australian history
Mette Edvardsen: ‘If forgetting is important, then so is remembering’

The dancer, choreographer and performer talks about memorising books and then retelling them, and exploring the possibilities and limits of language
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry

Taking over two floors of the Met Breuer, this stunning career retrospective insinuates the African American narrative into the received history of art through a heroic investigation into the metaphorical, cultural and aesthetic implications of extreme blackness
Painters’ Painters

There is a quiet revolution happening in paint. But, paradoxically, Painters’ Painters seems out to prove otherwise