Author: jaywp
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Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms
The largest exhibition of Bacon’s paintings ever held in the north of England, it takes as its curatorial framework the spaces the artist painted around his famously brutalised figures – outlines of cubes, rings, platforms and provisional rooms
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Cuba Libre, Con Permiso
Artists are the plutocrats in Cuba and, with trade embargos with the US likely to be lifted soon, storied collectors and celebrities are already scouting around for their works.
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Maria Lassnig
Concerned with the fundamental problem of the location of the body, both on canvas and in the world, the Austrian artist’s self-portraits span genre and interrogate the notion of self-representation and the limitations of painting
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Tess Jaray: Dark & Light
In this exhibition, which comprises three triptychs and two small standalone pieces, Jaray’s interest in the definitions of painting, printing and the boundaries between different media is clear
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Cory Arcangel – interview: ‘Making art is just basically dowsing’
The Brooklyn-based artist talks about his latest show at the Lisson Gallery in London, billed as ‘a technological exploration of obsession and obsolescence’
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Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds
Ongoing excavations of two rediscovered cities have shone light on a rich era in Egyptian history, and form the backbone of a fascinating exhibition
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György Kovásznai: A Cold War Artist. Animation. Painting. Freedom
The first UK retrospective of the work of the Hungarian artist, film-maker and animator displayed his extensive and eclectic range
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Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph
This exhibition tells the story of the birth of photography, exploring the vision of the Victorian inventor William Henry Fox Talbot, alongside those of his contemporaries in France, such as painter and set designer Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
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Katie Paterson: ‘As a child, I used to practise daydreaming’
With her largest UK show to date currently on at the Lowry, the artist talks about the relationship with heavenly bodies and the wider cosmos, her graveyard of stars and sending her work into space
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Robert Irwin: All the Rules Will Change
This exhibition looks at work the artist produced from 1958 to 1970, a time when he reconsidered the premise of art and art-making
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Elizabeth Price: ‘I’m interested in music and the voice because it brings a very different sensual and emotional register to the work’
Studio International visited Elizabeth Price in her studio in south-east London to talk to her about her work A Restoration, made for the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
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Stephen Prina: ‘The exhibition was really about considering whether I could embark on an autobiographical project that I would deem acceptable’
The post-conceptual artist talks about his hometown, studying with John Baldessari at California Institute of the Arts, and a missed encounter with John Cage
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Ettore Spalletti: Every dawn, is first / Ogni alba, è la prima
His voice is singular, his pieces united in simplicity: painted columnar forms that point to classical structures, and monochromatic paintings that favour traditional Italian painting
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David Claerbout: ‘I sculpt in duration’
The artist talks about duration, place and history in his practice, and how he sees his way of working as archaeological research rather than a production process
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Ryan Sullivan: ~ / –
For his second exhibition at Sadie Coles, the young American artist eschews canvas and paper, drawing attention instead to the material properties of paint, and producing a dazzling feast of vibrant colour and captured movement
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Georg Baselitz: Wir fahren aus (We’re off)
This major exhibition, the artists first major solo show at White Cube, includes new large-scale paintings, sculpture and works on paper
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Martine Syms: ‘I am interested in the idea of the gulf between your lived experience and its representation’
The Los Angeles-based artist talks about semiotics, funkadelic Afrofuturism, and how to create a 90-minute feature-length film out of 180 30-second clips
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Frieze New York 2016
There were dogs, a screaming blow-up baby and a real donkey, but there were also museum-quality installations and small joys to be had at the New York art fair’s fifth incarnation
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William Heath Robinson’s Life of Line
With a wit all of his own Heath Robinson captured everything from the sublime to the ridiculous, and in doing so became one of the most versatile illustrators of the 20th century
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Gillian Wearing: ‘I don’t have any typical practice. Every project is different’
The artist talks about the ideas behind her latest film project, A Room With Your Views, which brings together footage from around the world and will be premiered at Brighton Festival
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Sara Greenberger Rafferty: ‘What is more essential than how one faces the day?’
The multimedia artist talks about constructing the self through the language of clothing
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From the Collection: 1960-1969
From a shiny Jaguar E-Type, explosions of colour and a trip through a more muted palette, MoMA has served up the 60s as a tasty new dish, charting the era’s subversive investigations into traditional form, media and design
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Charles Richardson – interview: ‘There must be some sort of desire in me to hold onto something’
The artist talks about his show at Exeter Phoenix, collaborating with local artists, the importance of music in his work, and whether the physical informs the virtual, or the other way around
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Jules de Balincourt: ‘I can’t be painting bouquets of flowers and pretend that everything is wonderful. That doesn’t interest me’
The painter’s uncanny worlds reflect the post-9/11 zeitgeist with a beguiling charm. The world is a fragile, unsettling place, he says, and it’s difficult not to respond to that
