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Derek Michael Besant: ‘A stitching together of each person’s voice allows a glimpse into the psychology of living in Edinburgh’

The artist talks about his project, which involved 50 strangers from Scotland’s capital city sending him photos of themselves and answering questions he posed. He explains how he played with the visuals and text to explore how people see things
My Dear BB … The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925-1959

The 34-year correspondence between two legends of the Anglo-American art world evokes the life and times of the 20th-century cultural establishment
Thomas Ruff: Nature Morte

The German photographer known for his forward thinking and experimentation has gone back in time for his latest show, examining the negative, considering it for itself rather than seeing it as a means to an end
Vincent Meessen: ‘In the western world, we still think that we created everything’ – Venice Biennale 2015

Eleven artists come together to reflect on colonialism and its aftermath in a complex, multimedia, collaborative exhibition, which pulls apart the notions of origin and authorship
‘Oswaldo Vigas said he found the root of his work in ancient culture’

At an exhibition of Oswaldo Vigas’s work in Bogotá, his son Lorenzo talked about his father’s love of people, how mythology and witchcraft shaped his output, and his friendship with Picasso
Facing History: Contemporary Portraiture

This show looks at how contemporary artists are influenced by the past as they seek to represent their present, and questions the nature of what a portrait depicts
Larry Bell: ‘You have to trust what you’re doing, to trust the work’

The artist discusses his latest solo exhibition, at the White Cube gallery, the spontaneity that occurs during the making process, why he chose to stop painting, and going to tea with Marcel Duchamp
Charles Lim: ‘It’s very easy to see the sea as a sublime space where you can even find God’ – Venice Biennale 2015

With his sailing background, Charles Lim explains, he sees the sea as ‘just an office’. His 10-year-old, 10-part project, Sea State, explores the biophysical, political and psychic contours of Singapore, which this year celebrates the 50th anniversary of its independence
Nathan Coley: ‘I’m the travelling storyteller who’s come to town for the summer’

Nathan Coley tells the stories behind his two text-light sculptures in the Bruges Triennial, peeling back the layers and exploring the meanings. Ultimately, he is happy that he still doesn’t know the definitive answer himself
Memu Meadows

Research into dwellings of the future is under way in Hokkaido, the most northerly island in Japan, where the harsh winter climate can see temperatures fall to below -30C
HeHe: ‘Pylons are quite beautiful structures in themselves. They’re like little angels’

Helen Evans, half of the artistic duo known as HeHe, speaks about their current work for the Bruges Triennial, and how it fits with their themes of the environment and urban space
Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale 2015

Japan’s contemporary art festival, the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, despite being held in a region with just 74,000 residents, attracts more than 400,000 visitors, who come from around the world to experience artworks dotted over a vast area of land
Richard Long: Time and Space

Fifteen years after Richard Long’s last exhibition of any scale in his native Bristol, he is the Arnolfini’s showcase artist during the city’s 2015 European Green Capital celebrations. Director Kate Brindley speaks to Studio International about the exhibition
Charles Gaines: ‘I am dealing in the area of how meaning is formed’

US conceptual artist and educator Charles Gaines talks about why he believes art should be interested in knowledge ahead of pleasure, being influenced by Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, and why he contests his students rather than nurturing them
Lee Ufan

This solo exhibition is made up of two bodies of work first conceived near the start of Lee’s career, in the late 60s
The boys the girls and the political

The Lisson Gallery’s summer show takes a linguistic turn while tapping into the trends of the networked age. Studio International talked to its curators, Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot, and discovered the meaning of the ‘metamodern’
Yoshihito Mizuuchi: ‘Eating noodle soup makes a sound, but it’s also like a sculpture’

The process of making a sculpture is a performance art in itself, says the Japanese artist, who explains how he works with an audience, experimenting with found materials, chance and outcome
Art in Dialogue: Duccio | Caro

Bringing together a medieval Sienese altarpiece fragment and a late-20th-century abstract sculpture, despite their being separated by more than 700 years, opens up a lively dialogue that sheds new light on both works
Toni Scott: ‘People don’t understand that what’s in the past is still with us today’

The California-based multimedia artist Toni Scott talks about how, in DNA – Bloodlines and the Family of Mankind, she has woven her own personal family history with the universal history of African Americans and Native Americans in “a celebration of…
Eloise Hawser: ‘This machine is all about contact and resistance’

The artist explains the complex mechanisms of a cinema organ and its colour-changer to Studio International with ease and clarity
Raed Yassin: Kissing Amnesia

Lebanese artist and musician Raed Yassin displays his magnetic, humorous and moving works in the ever-seductive surroundings of Lord Leighton’s Orientalist fantasy in London’s Holland Park
The Amazing World of MC Escher

MC Escher was long ignored by galleries and dismissed by critics, yet there is arguably no modern artist who has profoundly influenced so many different fields, from cinema to graphic design, mathematics to video games
Yto Barrada: ‘This whole project started with the sale of a dinosaur’

The artist discusses her hometown of Tangier, palaeontology, her concerns with trade and smuggling, and the difficulties of opening a cinema when you have no previous experience
Royal Scottish Academy Metzstein Architecture Discourse: Glenn Murcutt

Architect Glenn Murcutt, winner of many international awards, presented an inspiring discourse on his philosophy, which has pioneered a new relationship between architecture and landscape in his native Australia