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  • Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

    Fashion it may be, in that every item in this Alexander McQueen retrospective is for wearing, but art is its soul. This show, which charts the trajectory of the designer’s meteoric life is stunning, glorious and unmissable

  • Five Issues of Studio International at Raven Row

    Studio international visited Raven Row in East London to talk to writer and curator Jo Melvin about the exhibition she has curated titled Five Issues of Studio International

  • Inventing Impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Art Market

    Full of impressionist masterpieces, this exhibition looks at how art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel struggled to convince a sceptical public of the merits of these works and, in doing so, shaped today’s art industry

  • Hadieh Shafie: ‘I take things from my culture and marry them to my western art education’

    Hadieh Shafie makes transformative objects that hover between painting and sculpture, integrating her roots in Persian culture and her training in the west

  • Florian and Michael Quistrebert: Visions of Void

    This beautifully drafted exhibition by the Quistrebert brothers is focused, enthralling and atmospheric, with hypnotic videos and paintings that intend the viewer to feel rather than think

  • Jason Rhoades, Four Roads

    From smoke machines to salmon roe, Jason Rhoades’s art of the bizarre and the ‘gleefully vulgar’ at Gateshead’s Baltic Centre will entice and excite. Unless you are under 18 – in which case you won’t be allowed in

  • David Best: ‘My favourite material is people’

    Known for the temples he builds for the Burning Man event in Nevada, David Best has this year brought his idea to Derry~Londonderry. He talks about how his art helps people to deal with grief

  • Staging the Ukrainian Avant-Garde of the 1910s and 1920s

    A beautiful exhibition of the Ukrainian avant garde’s theatre design from the 1910s and 20s is establishing a sense of identity for the art of a nation that has been split between its historical ties to the union with Russia…

  • 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience

    Surround Audience includes some strong works, but the New Museum’s Triennial 2015 bombards you with pieces that compete for attention, so while video- and sound-based works hold their own, quieter, more conceptual pieces are easily overlooked

  • Ken Kiff: The Hill of Dreams

    In the Hill of Dreams, which includes encaustic paintings, monotypes, lithographs, etchings, woodcut and monoprint, Ken Kiff is revealed as an artist’s artist, creating images to draw the viewer in, as if to partake in his adventure

  • Marisa Williamson: ‘I want to make history alive in people’s worlds’

    The performance artist talks about leaving Los Angeles to start a course at the Whitney Museum in New York, and her latest project, in which she takes on the role of Sally Hemings, slave and mistress to President Thomas Jefferson

  • Goya: The Witches and Old Women Album

    Nightmarish visions and demonic passions fill the pages of Goya’s late drawings. But as this exhibition at the Courtauld illustrates, there is also sadness and humour among the withered limbs and toothless old women that haunt these fascinating albums

  • The Sultan’s World: The Ottoman Orient in Renaissance Art

    East meets west in this dazzling show, which focuses on the attraction the Ottoman empire held for western artists for more than two centuries. This jewel of an exhibition brings together art and valuable objects rarely seen in such abundance

  • Marc Chagall: A Retrospective (1908-1985)

    The long career of a colourful chameleon, Russian-born artist Marc Chagall, is shown off in more than 200 works on loan from over 20 collections

  • Armory Week 2015

    The thousands who braved the snow for this year’s Armory found no big surprises. Rather, there were thoughtful works of painting, sculpture and photography and effortful installations. And the decision to pare down to 199 dealers and sacrifice a few…

  • Birds of Metal in Flight: An Evening of Poetry with 5 + 5

    In celebration of the year-long exhibition Phoenix: Xu Bing at the Cathedral, a night of poetry by some of today’s most renowned poets from the US and China took place on the evening of 25 February 2015 at the Cathedral…

  • Andrea Mason: ‘If I had to be categorised really simply … I am an artist who writes’

    Artist and writer Andrea Mason talked to us from her studio in Camberwell, south London about Literary Kitchen, the creative writing enterprise she founded, her collaboration with Philippe Bradshaw and the inspirations behind her current research and writing as art…

  • Moonstrips: Eduardo Paolozzi and the printed collage 1965-72

    Sir Eduardo Paolozzi is considered to be one of the forerunners of British pop art. An exhibition of his vibrant and eccentric prints has opened at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, which was an early supporter of his work

  • On Kawara: Silence

    The Guggenheim’s retrospective of On Kawara brings to the fore the great richness of the artist’s practice yet, despite the wealth of detail, you come to know so little about the man who painstakingly made these works

  • Ilana Halperin: ‘Drawing is a trace fossil of a moment, an idea, proof of life’

    The artist, whose work is bound up with geological phenomena, explains the excitement of holding a meteorite older than the Earth, her obsession with the Eldfell volcano, and why gallstones are important to her art

  • Good Figures: An exhibition of the female form depicted by 30 contemporary female artists

    Thirty contemporary female artists, ranging in age from 24 to 82, celebrate the enduring appeal of the female form in everything from photography to drawing, ceramics, film and sculpture

  • Sheila Hicks – interview: I’ve enjoyed a whole career of being an outsider

    The American-born artist Sheila Hicks invited us to join her on her brightly coloured pigmented bales in her site-specific installation at the Hayward Gallery Project Space, where she asked us if we knew the difference between a carrot and a…

  • Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden

    Challenging and provocative, this vast retrospective at Tate Modern charts Marlene Dumas’s long career. From the very first room, it is clear that this South African-born artist is one of the most important painters working today

  • Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends

    This latest exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery is an illuminating tour de force that opens a window on Sargent’s world and the extraordinary people he called his friends