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History Machines by Donovan & Siegel

Toronto-based artist couple Matt Donavan and Hallie Siegel explore the history of changes in communication technology in their multilayered artworks derived from research and conversation.
Jeffrey Gibson: ‘I was so angry I washed my canvases in the laundromat’

The artist talks about being any angry young artist, his earlier determination not to be viewed as an American Indian artist, and the practice he has evolved over the years, which combines traditional Native American art with contemporary styles
Mårten Lange: ‘I wanted to make a story about something beyond the reach of the camera’

The photographer talks about his lifelong fascination with prehistory and his latest photobook, Chicxulub, and the difficulties of capturing lost worlds
Paul Carter: ‘There’s an invitation that only takes you so far’

Entering the gallery, visitors enter a new world – a liminal space, with an empty lift, piss-stained walls, and a municipal blue hotel sign on a cracked concrete wall. The artist explains his interest in civic architecture as social sculpture…
Li Huasheng: ‘A line is nothing. When I paint a vase, its outline does not exist, it is imagined’

The Chinese artist is admired for his abstract ink paintings. Here, he explains how a visit to the US changed his art and his life, and why he has ‘stopped communicating with most people’
The Ars Electronica Festival 2016: Radical Atoms and the Alchemists of our Time

This year’s festival includes more than 30 exhibitions, around 20 concerts and visual art and sound performances each day, an open-air drone show, plus symposiums, lectures and workshops
Megan Rooney – interview: ‘My mother taught me how to be a maker’

The artist talks about working with clay, birdseed, lipstick and papier-mache and about excess, draught snakes and the domestic sublime
Judith Wechsler: ‘Film allows, even invites, inclusivity of media. It’s one of the reasons I love making films’

The American film-maker and art historian discusses her remarkable body of documentaries on art, including her latest project, a suggestively melancholy portrait of Aby Warburg
Regine Bartsch: ‘I’m drawn to these places where many people have lived before’

In her studio in southern Ireland, the German-born artist spoke about her recent exhibition and residency at David Parr House in Cambridge, Buddhism and the childhood experiences in Finland and Syria that continue to influence her practice
Noble Prospects: Capability Brown and the Yorkshire Landscape

To mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of the great 18th-century landscape gardener, this exhibition brings together portraits of Capability Brown and his clients, along with original plans, drawings and documents
Katie Schwab: ‘I like the idea that works can begin to generate their own history once they enter people’s homes’

Keen to learn traditional, craft-based skills, the artist explains why she is drawn to processes where she has a direct hand in production, staying in contact with the things she is making and the people she is working with
SFMOMA’s extension: a new visual vocabulary

With Snøhetta’s new building now open, SFMOMA has more exhibition space than Manhattan’s MoMA, and more dedicated walls for photography than the Getty, and with its vast collection, it is an essential destination for any art lover
Xu Yong – interview: ‘Negatives act as witness’

Twenty-five years after Tiananmen Square, the Beijing-based photographer took the brave decision to publish his images of the event in negative form. Here, he talks about his work
Setouchi Triennale 2016

Once every three years, the islands of Japan’s Seto Inland Sea are transformed by an influx of artists bringing new ideas through a variety of works and installations
Kienholz: Five Car Stud

Even with its harrowing subject matter, Edward Kienholz’s controversial civil rights work deserves to be celebrated. This exhibition examines it in its original context of display, alongside other, often disturbing, works from 1959-1994
The Neo Naturists

Disaffected by the politics of Thatcherism and an art world overtaken by masculine neo-expressionism, the Neo Naturists covered their nude bodies in paint and burst on to the 1980s’ London club scene in an attempt to explore body image and…
Raqib Shaw: ‘I really don’t give a fuck about the so-called contemporary art world’

In his converted home and studio in south London, surrounded by dogs, myriad staff, an exquisitely kept bonsai collection and apparently endless reserves of champagne, the artist discusses childhood, gardening and his route to becoming a painter
Paula Modersohn-Becker: An Intensely Artistic Eye

Following the artist’s progress from a small German artists’ community to the bright lights of Paris, this exhibition captures Modersohn-Becker’s constant striving to simplify and distil the essence of her subject
Daniel Sinsel

A pulse of eroticism runs through this collection of Sinsel’s new work, as he teases the distinction between painting and sculpture, using materials ranging from the ordinary to the rarefied
The world is yours, as well as ours

This exhibition takes the visitor on a whirlwind tour of some of China’s most recent abstract work, ranging from figurative landscapes to digital glitches to the eternity of the circle
Dana Schutz: ‘I think of the viewer as the painter’

The artist talks about deciding to become a painter when she was 14, how Alice Neel and the Velvet Underground made her want to move to New York, why she isn’t on Facebook or Instagram, and why it’s bad to…
The New Blockheads

This retrospective looks at the work of a group of performance artists from St Petersburg in the late 1990s, who used irony, the grotesque and absurdism to reflect the transitional and uncertain world around them
Michael Joo: ‘I was taken by the fact that there was a space that was inaccessible but real’

The New York-based conceptual artist talks about growing up among scientists, what drew him to working with silver nitrate, the endangered red crane in the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea
9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (BB9): The Present in Drag

Mixing physical locations with digital content, The Present in Drag is a brilliant parody that builds a clever, self-deprecating critique of the present, presenting the visitor less with an experience than with a lifestyle