Author: jaywp
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Rashid Johnson: Fly Away
This is Johnson at his best. Mirrors, branded wood, black soap, shea butter, cut-up photography – his trademark materials are all here in this vast gallery, as he draws visitors in to contemplate his themes of anxiety and race
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Karin Schneider: Situational Diagram
Restricting herself to the abstract and the monochrome, referencing Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, and setting rules for the sale of her work, Schneider questions the central relationships in art – between artist and antecedent, gallerist and buyer
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Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva: ‘I am driven by making the impossible possible’
The artist, who makes beautiful works of art using waste products from the meat industry talks about God, gastroenterology and pigs’ guts
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Shezad Dawood: Kalimpong
From yeti expeditions to spy shenanigans, the Himalayan hotel in Kalimpong has seen it all. Now, a new virtual reality work – along with its accompanying exhibition and publication – invites you to step back in time and explore
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Robert Mapplethorpe: Objects
An enlightening and enriching insight into the juvenilia of the controversial photographer, showing 12 rarely seen collage and assemblage works, in which he develops motifs and themes that continue throughout his career
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James Richards: Requests and Antisongs
Sensory stimulation is privileged over semantics in this tripartite installation of new works by the Turner Prize-nominated sound and video artist
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Meet the designers doing good this autumn in London
More than 400 events and installations from high-profile designers and rising stars were included in this year’s London Design Festival, while the city’s inaugural design biennale showcased the works of 37 countries at Somerset House
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Karen Guthrie: ‘Family history is a hidden pain with lots of people. A film can bring those things to the surface’
The film-maker talks about her incredibly successful and amazingly raw and personal documentary of her family history, The Closer We Get
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Dialogue with Trees: Five Stories of Rebirth and Renewal
To celebrate its 90th birthday, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum is staging an exhibition of works in wood, from vast installations to finely chiselled pieces, by five contemporary Japanese artists
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Michael Buthe
Combining elements of Christian iconography and ritual with artefacts from North African and oriental culture, Buthe created entrancing and immersive installations, at once meditative and full of energy
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William Kentridge: Thick Time
This remarkable show offers six of the South African artist’s most potent installations – and six chances to enter Kentridge’s shivering monochrome universe
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Ed Moses: Painting as Process
In the still eye of the swirl of the happening art that opens Manhattan’s autumn season stands a small, beautiful and defining exhibition that makes a case for process as mantra, manifesto and trophy
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The EY Exhibition: Wifredo Lam
He fought in the Spanish civil war, was exiled from France by the Nazis and returned to his native Cuba to find it utterly changed. His genius was to turn his experiences into a unique portrait of his time and…
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Douglas Kotwall: ‘We want to incubate young, contemporary Chinese artists and curators’
Kotwall, a senior member of the K11 Art Foundation, talks about the ethos and goals of the organisation, which seeks to promote young Chinese artists, open up cross-cultural dialogues, and make art more accessible to the Chinese public
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Guan Xiao: ‘I am learning about humour. It is a precious quality’
The artist talks about how the digital revolution has influenced her work, the roles of text and humour, and her dislike of being labelled
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Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
The record, begun in the 1970s, of a 15-year period in Goldin’s life, is grounded in a specific place and culture, yet it is a hauntingly universal and deeply affecting work and, decades on, it has lost none of its…
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Peter Cain
This retrospective exhibition displays Cain’s huge, forensic paintings of cars, strangely truncated yet irresistibly seductive
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Amy Franceschini: ‘It’s kind of simple: I want to be alive and I want to breathe’
The artist talks about her upbringing in the breadbasket of America, and how this taught her about the interplay of power and politics and the importance of farming and our environment
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Sean Scully: ‘The stripe can do anything in any direction, and since it is so common, it corresponds to everything around us’
The abstract artist talks about why he changed his style so radically in the 1980s, the influence of Ireland, the UK and the US on his work, and why he is so popular in China
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Conrad Shawcross: ‘It’s created a skin for the surface of this building’
The artist explains his use of the moiré effect in designing an optical cloak for a tall industrial building on the Greenwich Peninsula in south-east London
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Jess Johnson: ‘My work is a visual stew’
The fantastical world of Jess Johnson has arrived in Edinburgh, in the artist’s first solo exhibition in Europe. She talks about translating her intensely detailed drawings into virtual reality
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Clare Jarrett: ‘It’s almost as though the work is already there somewhere and just wants to come out’
The Norwich-based artist talks about her recent residency at the Barbershop in Norwich, and her practice
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Cyril de Commarque: ‘I believe in a new renaissance of thinking’
The French artist has converted a grain barge into an artwork to sail the Thames, blasting out a soundtrack of revolution and hosting conferences with leading thinkers on philosophy, economics and nanotechnology. He welcomed Studio International on board
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Forest of Expression: Art as a Communal Act
Eight projects explore how art and expressing ideas and emotions can help those on the fringes of society, with the aim of bringing art to those who often find it inaccessible
