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  • Georgia O’Keeffe

    Tainted by the myth of erotic undertones, O’Keeffe’s work is shown by this long overdue retrospective to be far broader and more brilliant than is widely known. But it still doesn’t entirely do her justice

  • Kate Whiteford: ‘By confronting simple questions, bigger ones emerge. That is the essence of my work’

    The artist talks about her new work, now on show at the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate, looking at how Capability Brown transformed the English landscape through the manipulation of scale and perspective

  • Alice Channer: ‘The area in between the subject and the object is the area I want to locate in my work’

    The artist, who used everything from cigarette ash to microbeads to create her work, talks about cyborgs, beehives, and the problem with solid sculpture

  • Performance, Audience, Mirror

    Celebrating moving image from the 1960s to the present day, this exhibition explores experimentation, performance and documentation in film-making

  • Pierre Lassonde Pavilion

    The new pavilion for the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec is a glorious building that nearly doubles the complex’s exhibition capabilities

  • Co-thinkers

    The focus of this exhibition, with work by canonical American and European artists, is less on the art itself and more on being inclusive for all those who visit to enjoy it. As one of the curators says: “Disability does…

  • Cui Xiuwen: Light

    Cui Xiuwen is a conceptual artist best known internationally as a video film-maker and photographer. A creator of progressive and provocative work, she began her career as a painter and has recently returned to making paintings and sculpture, exploring contemporary…

  • Carlo Carrà: Metaphysical Spaces

    The works presented here show some of Carrà’s key metaphysical works, charting his jettisoning of movement, fragmentation and volatility in favour of calmer, more cryptic and perspective-bound compositions

  • Winifred Knights (1899-1947)

    Knights was a prodigious talent, yet she has been virtually ignored for the past half a century. Now, a retrospective of her paintings at the Dulwich Picture Gallery could change that. Director Ian Dejardin tells Emily Spicer why Knights is…

  • Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Reporting from the Front

    From the poster image for this six-month-long event to the immersive installations of exquisitely resculpted waste at the entrances to the main buildings, this biennale is all about the architect’s role in solving issues caused by dwindling resources

  • William Eggleston: Portraits

    The first exhibition devoted to the American photographer’s portraiture undersells the works’ beauty, allowing name to triumph over form

  • Lamia Joreige: ‘Anything you film in a certain reality at a certain moment is a diagnosis of a present’

    The artist, one of six finalists included in the Artes Mundi 7 exhibition, talks about her project Objects of War, a collective history of the Lebanese civil war, and her newer “poetic essays” exploring neighbourhoods in Beirut through film, photography,…

  • Niki de Saint Phalle: Je Suis Une Vache Suisse

    Despite traumatic experiences early on in life, Niki de Saint Phalle produced vivacious, playful and exuberant works, proof that creativity can emerge from destruction

  • Alfredo Jaar: A Logo for America

    The first UK screening of Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar’s iconic work, A Logo for America, at London’s Piccadilly Circus. It was first shown in New York’s Times Square in 1987, and again in 2014.

  • Tate Modern Switch House

    After more than a decade and over £250m in funds, Tate Modern’s new sibling has opened its doors, displaying an exhilarating approach to accessibility, flexibility and curatorial innovation

  • Watteau’s Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France

    Offering the quiet thrill of a cool oasis in the park, the Frick Collection has mounted a connoisseur show of little-known work by a master of his time that both instructs and refreshes

  • Peter Howson: A Survey of Prints

    This retrospective of prints produced over four decades by Scottish artist Peter Howson, one-time member of the New Glasgow Boys and a former war artist, provides an interesting parallel with his paintings

  • This is a Voice

    This intriguing exhibition attempts to capture the elusive nature of the human voice, with live performances by sound artists, demonstrations, paintings and medical illustrations. Curator Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz tells Studio International about the show

  • Diane Arbus: in the beginning

    Burnished by a brilliant installation, this early work shows the storied American photographer already fully in control of the technique and vision that were to so greatly influence generations of artists to come

  • Ragnar Kjartansson

    The Icelandic artist’s first UK survey exhibition serves up a palimpsest of delights that gives contemporary performance art a good name

  • Stuart Davis: In Full Swing

    Showcasing his work from 1921 to his death in 1964, this exhibition allows the visitor to fully appreciate the artist’s interest in going back through his older sketches and paintings to find inspiration

  • Tim Slade: ‘The whole point about erasure is to allow you to pretend that nothing has happened’

    The Destruction of Memory charts the global loss of historic artefacts through war and terrorism. It is a film that Slade hopes will change the way governments and policy-makers view such cultural vandalism

  • Mariko Mori: ‘The ring is a symbol of oneness, completeness and eternity’

    The artist talks about her mission to place site-specific artworks honouring nature on the six habitable continents, and her involvement with the cultural programme of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games

  • Francesca Pasquali: ‘I have a contemporary view of art, so I want to draw materials from the world around me’

    The Bolognese artist uses everyday materials and plastics to replicate natural folds and textures in a manner akin to the ideas of arte povera. Currently in London for two exhibitions, she speaks to Studio International about her inspirations and aspirations