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Kehinde Wiley: ‘I think ideas are just as important as the material practice of painting’
African-American artist Kehinde Wiley talks about the practice of painting as a conceptual tool to express his worldview and ideas that inspire him
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Helen Flockhart: ‘Art doesn’t have to be large to be powerful’
The Scottish painter on her time at Glasgow School of Art in the 80s, being influenced by conventional artists as well as models from knitting patterns, and how she produces her detailed, labour intensive works
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Thomas Hart Benton’s ‘America Today’ Rediscovered
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is celebrating the acquisition and installation of Thomas Hart Benton’s 10-panel mural cycle with an exhibition that includes numerous studies the artist prepared for the mural, as well as paintings, drawings and…
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Drawing as the catalyst for contemporary printmaking in the UK
We look at how printmaking has influenced the work of Arthur Watson, Paul Coldwell, Christopher Le Brun, Charlotte Hodes and Grayson Perry
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Cornelia Parker: interview
Known for her explosive works that cross the line between science and art, Parker spoke to us at the opening of her exhibition at The Whitworth, Manchester about why she wouldn’t necessarily call herself an artist and where her inspiration…
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Luc Tuymans: The Shore
Luc Tuymans’s latest exhibition at the David Zwirner Gallery in London is the result of a diverse range of influences, but his characteristically bleached colours and eerie settings ensure that his paintings continue to unsettle and intrigue
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Faces Then, Faces Now
This double offering explores the concept of identity through portraits in two opposing media and ages – renaissance painting and modern photography
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Danh Vō: Homosapiens
The work of the Vietnamese-born Danish artist Danh Vō explores colonialism and nationalism through artefacts and text. His current exhibition, Homosapiens, is a critical study of history and the human condition from the artist’s unique perspective
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Motoi Yamamoto: Return to the Origin
In Japan, salt is used to exorcise the bad spirits that are said to haunt the dead. With his installation of 120kg of salt at the Pola Museum Annex in Tokyo, artist Motoi Yamamoto instead uses the mineral as a…
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Lynda Benglis: ‘I think artists create their own rules’
Here, the artist who was once dubbed the “heir to Pollock” and shocked the art world in 1974 by posing nude with a giant dildo, talks about her new show at Hepworth Wakefield and breaking rules
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Morehshin Allahyari: ‘Suddenly, I had the opportunity of making art without having to censor myself’
The Iranian-born artist, who moved to the US in 2007, talks about important concepts in her work, including exile, censorship, virtual and digital media and the adoption of technology in developing countries
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Sonia Delaunay: Les Couleurs de l’Abstraction
A key figure of early 20th-century Parisian avant garde, Sonia Delaunay has often been cast in a supporting role to her husband, modernist Robert Delaunay. A major European retrospective puts the record straight and shows her impact on the international…
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Janet Biggs: ‘This project traces my very specific memories of my family’
The video and installation artist talks about her latest exhibition, in which she worked with neuroscientists, geologists and musicians in a quest to discover what constitutes our sense of self and identity when our memory fails us
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David Weiss: Works, 1968-1979
This exhibition of Swiss artist David Weiss looks at the years before he and Peter Fischli became a famous duo. A sense of childish whimsy pervades these formative works, done when he was immersed in Zurich’s bohemian counterculture
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Mira Schendel: Monotypes
Mira Schendel is regarded as one of the most significant South American artists of the 20th century, and this exhibition of her early monotypes provides a brief insight into both her experimental process and her continuous questioning of her own…
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Fernanda Chieco: ‘I go searching for stories’
The Brazilian artist talks about art residency programmes, and how one led her to look at haunted houses, chase phantoms and, finally, build a ghost town with watercolours
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Haris Epaminonda: ‘I imagined the Cypriot landscape to be the main protagonist’
The artist talks about the making of her four-channel video installation Chapters, filmed in her native Cyprus, and the importance of the space in which her works are shown
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David Birkin, Mouths at the Invisible Event
David Birkin makes socially and politically motivated art that is thought-provoking and challenging. In Mouths at the Invisible Event, his first public solo exhibition, the works form a dialogue around drones and surveillance post-9/11
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Toyin Odutola: ‘I’m no longer interested in portraying what I think I am in my work’
The artist talks about why she loves pen and ink, where she gets the inspiration for her titles, and why it’s ridiculous to think being African, black and a woman should define her work
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Unseen
The newly finished Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery showcases the incredible breadth of the Courtauld’s collection and promises many years of fascinating displays
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Frederick Wiseman: ‘National Gallery shows more about the ambivalence, depth and horror of human nature than almost any other film’
The American film-maker Frederick Wiseman talks about his latest documentary, a portrait of the National Gallery, and his novelistic approach to his work
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David Altmejd: ‘I believe in the power that art has to generate meaning’
Canadian artist David Altmejd, known for his fantastical sculptures and installations, discusses his current solo exhibition at Modern Art Gallery, London, and talks about heads, hands and the fetishisation of potential
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Ron Mueck
Australian sculptor Ron Mueck’s touring show has now been seen by more than a million visitors. What is it that draws people in such great numbers to view his reproductions of other human beings?
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Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915 – 2015
To measure the imprint that a century of abstract art has left on society, culture and politics, Adventures of the Black Square at the Whitechapel Gallery collates artwork from every corner of the globe
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