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Bedwyr Williams: The Gulch

This is a disorienting exploratory playground for the imagination, a procession of surreal scenarios, theatrical set-pieces and interactive enticements that lures visitors down the less-travelled B roads of human behaviour
Wendy Stavrianos: ‘I have always aimed for my work to be more akin to visual poetry’

The artist talks about her concern with environmental degradation and mass migration, and her aim to share her sadness and memories in her latest works
Arthur Watson: ‘What connected Nagoya and Chicago was the level of interest in the work. “Not bad,” is as good as it gets in north-east Scotland’

The artist talks about his current exhibition, Double Diablerie, in which he explores superstitions around the Devil, along with fellow Scottish artist Ian Howard and two Japanese artists
Picasso Portraits

Picasso’s life and art were shaped by friends, family and lovers, and as this exhibition demonstrates, his portraits were just as varied as his relationships
Toby Ziegler: ‘In half an hour, you can undo an entire month’s work’

Toby Ziegler explains his processes of painting and sanding, and using Google’s reverse image search to create works with layers of geological exploration
Louise Bourgeois: Turning Inwards

The opening room at Hauser & Wirth Somerset has been transformed into a spider’s lair, a fitting scene to start this exhibition of late etchings by Louise Bourgeois, seen here together for the first time
Giuseppe Penone: Fui, Sarò, Non Sono

Although he may not initially seem to possess the radicalism of his arte povera contemporaries, the Italian artist’s work abounds with mellow fruitfulness and measured contemplation
Image Music Text: Andrew Gillespie, Andrew Lacon, Joanne Masding

Nathaniel Pitt explains that he looked to the processes of artists, instead of the subjects of their work, to curate the show. The three artists in this show, he says, are not starting from media, but from their curiosity
Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia

In an exhibition dominated by self-portraits and seascapes, Celia Paul demonstrates the virtues of subtlety and perseverance
Joey Holder: ‘I’d like to see a lot more collaboration between the sciences and the arts’

The artist shows Studio International around her ‘futuristic medical room’ installation and explains how what, at first, might seem like science fiction, is pretty much science fact
Simon Starling: ‘A little knowledge is a powerful thing, and too much knowledge can stifle creativity’

The Turner Prize-winning conceptual artist underscores his first institutional show in New York with a meticulously researched multimedia installation based around WB Yeats’s 1916 play At the Hawk’s Well and Noh theatre
Tom Ellis: ‘Defining yourself in opposition to something else is always going to be self-defeating’

The British artist talks about context, subversion and what it means to build a career in the middle
Peter Liversidge: ‘My work is solely about engagement’

The artist talks about the significance of his “proposals”, and discusses his recent project at Tate Modern involving a 500-strong choral performance, and his two new shows in the US
Susan Webster and Stuart Kestenbaum: interview

Maine’s poet laureate Stuart Kestenbaum and artist Susan Webster talk about their recent collaborative cross-disciplinary work
Michelangelo Pistoletto: ‘The mirror is always part of one unique mirror. There is only one mirror that is fragmented in various moments and places’

In the startlingly altered states of Blenheim Palace, the multifarious Michelangelo Pistoletto spoke to Studio International about the history of time as captured in his Mirror Paintings, his rejection of the concept of a signature style, and the conviction that…
Visual Wit and Social Critique. Satire from Goya to Grosz

With three centuries’ worth of satire, this exhibition offers an overview of things that have changed and, perhaps more engagingly, things that have not, through an artist’s eye view of society
Oscar Murillo: through patches of corn, wheat and mud

Canvases appear abandoned on the floor and wet paint suggest a state of un-finish, but the compositions are complex, and the overlaid marks, prints, and repeated brushstrokes, a result of a prolonged process and experimentation
Simon Lewty: ‘I draw only from the imagination’

Lewty, whose work combines fantastic images with text, talks about where his inspiration comes from, the music he listens to while working, and the artists who have influenced him over his lifetime
Tacita Dean: LA Exuberance

New lithographs, slate drawings and a film of David Hockney, all done by Dean when she was in Los Angeles, are being shown alongside her acclaimed 2015 film Event for a Stage
Sofia Borges: ‘Photography can be used as a tool to mould our sense of reality’

The artist subverts photography, as she strives to ‘rub out meaning’. Instead, she explains, she is interested in the things that are lost, denied and corrupted in the transposition from object into image, and from image into reality, and from…
Abstract Expressionism

The towering canvases of abstract expressionism crowd the main galleries of the Royal Academy in this monumental exhibition
Zhao Zhao: ‘You cannot separate art from politics’

A prominent member of the post-1980s generation of Chinese artists and a former assistant of Ai Wewei, the Beijing artist talks about his visually stunning, anti-authoritarian and provocative work. Lilly Wei talked to the artist in his Beijing studio in…
Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison

Since it was founded in 1985, cultural organisation Artangel has made a name for itself staging exhibitions in headline-grabbing locations. Its latest show brings a cast of literary and art-world heavyweights to the cells, corridors and chapel of HM Prison…
Surreal Encounters Collecting the Marvellous

A fantastic range of Surrealist works and ephemera displayed in this exhibition shows the mutifaceted nature of the surrealist art movement, encountered through four different collections of Surrealist art