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  • Goya: The Portraits

    Put aside notions of the tormented artist plagued by demons and haunted by nightmarish visions and meet Goya, the loyal friend and mischievous court painter

  • Derek Boshier: ‘I think I’ve turned from pop artist to popularist’

    The artist rails against technology and right-wing newspapers, tells of his aspirations to create an entire exhibition in one day, and shares some – at times almost side-splitting – stories from his colourful career

  • British Art Show 8

    Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades

  • Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns

    This, the first show ever devoted to metalpoint, includes works by some of the greatest artists and is the finest exhibition dedicated to the history of drawing that we are likely to experience.

  • John Hoyland: Power Stations: Paintings 1964-1982

    Damien Hirst’s impressive new gallery opens with a sensitively curated show of one of Britain’s most renowned abstract artists

  • Sculpture in the City 2015

    Now in its fifth year, the public art exhibition Sculpture in the City is showing 14 works by contemporary artists around London’s Square Mile

  • Stella Ioannou: interview

    Now in its fifth year, the public art exhibition Sculpture in the City shows contemporary art pieces around London’s Square Mile. The co-director, architect and art manager Stella Ioannou talks about the exhibition

  • The Fabric of India

    Every square inch of fabric in this exhibition has a story to tell, from a sweat-stained talismanic shirt to an opulent Mughal-style tent. The closer you look the more you will see

  • The World Goes Pop

    In Tate Modern’s latest exhibition, curators Jessica Morgan and Flavia Frigeri make an ambitious attempt to widen the geographical boundaries of the pop art movement of the 1960s and 70s

  • What Do I Need to do to Make It OK?

    Curator Liz Cooper discusses this exhibition at London’s Pumphouse Gallery, which investigates repair through the language of thread and textiles and explores the frustrations and liberations of contemporary artists challenging the conventions of craft

  • Matthew Darbyshire: ‘If I can’t get hold of what I want, I’ll fake it’

    The artist talks about design and consumer culture, the role of colour as a democratiser, the need to ‘fake it’ and why Baudrillard’s predictions are not coming true – yet

  • Phyllida Barlow: Set

    Barlow’s art is genuinely challenging. The stacks of timber and cemented detritus spattered with paint, frozen between creation and destruction, fulfil her aim of turning the gallery, and our experience of it, upside down

  • Yayoi Kusama: In Infinity

    Once dubbed ‘the High Priestess of Polka Dots, pioneer of naked happenings … smashing to smithereens the old social morality’, Yayoi Kusama has had a long career that has included painting, sculpture, installation, fashion and performance.

  • The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film

    This exhibition, which presents many canonical works from 1920s and 30s Russia from public and private collections in the west, makes clear that creativity, beauty and innovation can be put at the service of fear and repression

  • Shona Illingworth: ‘Art practice is deeply important in a changing world’

    The Danish-born artist Shona Illingworth, whose video and sound installations explore the mystery of memory, talks about her latest exhibition at FACT in Liverpool, UK, and her collaboration with psychologists in her artistic practice.

  • Antony Donaldson: ‘Painting is a singular thing’

    The artist talks about home visits from his tutors when he was at the Slade in the 1950s, being influenced by Nicolas de Staël and discussing pornography with the Beverly Hills sheriff’s department

  • Broad and Broader

    Eli and Edythe’s brilliantly realised dream of a palace for their art joins a developer’s brief to a philanthropist’s vision for downtown Los Angeles

  • Celts: Art and Identity

    The identity of the Celts might be as evasive as a will-o’-the-wisp, but as this wonderful exhibition shows, their art is as solid and evocative as it is beautiful

  • Carl Plackman: Obscure Territories

    Carl Plackman rarely discussed his work, which, spanning sculpture, drawing and installation, refuses to be defined. During his long overdue exhibition at Pangolin London, Studio International spoke to his former student, Mark Dunhill, to get some insights into the man…

  • Anj Smith: ‘The figure is a device on which to hang my concerns’

    The artist talks about the collapsing of genres, her desire to portray identity post gender and painting as a metaphor for something eternal

  • Jennifer Rubell: Not Alone

    American artist Jennifer Rubell explores motherhood through a series of participatory works. Looking to break the established rules of the gallery, she encourages viewers to hold a baby, eat eggs – and even take their clothes off in the gallery

  • Tamar Ettun: ‘I am using the structure of a religious practice as a fold for my art-making’

    The young Israeli-American sculptor talks about her Orthodox background, her beginnings in art, integration of sculpture and performance, and how art relates to her personal history

  • YARAT: The Union of Fire and Water – Venice Biennale 2015

    The Union of Fire and Water presents a historical and cultural superimposition of Baku and Venice as seen through the eyes of two artists, Rashad Alakbarov and Almagul Menlibayeva. Studio International talked to the artists, alongside the curator Suad Garayeva,…

  • The Gap: Selected Abstract Art from Belgium

    This group exhibition – curated by artist Luc Tuymans – brings together more than 40 works by 15 Belgian artists in an attempt to highlight the similarities and tensions between two different generations within Belgium