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  • Egon Schiele: The Radical Nude

    Egon Schiele’s controversial drawings, which peel back Vienna’s bourgeois façade to reveal a world of sex and death, go on display at the Courtauld Gallery for the UK’s first ever show dedicated to the Austrian artist’s radical work

  • VS Gaitonde: Painting as Process, Painting as Life

    The works of the modernist Indian painter VS Gaitonde bring us to the world of abstraction, demonstrating the artist’s life-long dedication to art as a spiritual journey and a rigorous discipline practised through painting

  • Nathaniel Prottas interview: ‘Often museum didactics get in the way of people viewing art’

    Nathaniel Prottas, director of education at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York, talks about public programming for its current exhibition, which traces the history of printmaking, through works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo and…

  • Michelle Grabner interview: ‘My family is an important part of my life as an artist’

    American conceptual artist Michelle Grabner talks about how she combines her roles as artist, curator, teacher and writer, the importance of her family to her art, and why she stays rooted in the Midwest

  • Memling. A Flemish Renaissance

    For the first time, a Flemish Primitive shines in the capital of the Italian peninsula, as the Scuderie del Quirinale offers an unprecedented loan of paintings by Hans Memling, the favourite of the Italian community in Bruges

  • Rembrandt: The Late Works

    This winter’s blockbuster exhibition at the National Gallery examines Rembrandt’s expressive and moving later work from the 1650s until his death in 1669

  • Versace at the V&A

    Versace at the V&A is the largest exhibition that the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London, has ever dedicated to one fashion designer. This massive retrospective will show Gianni Versace’s unique flair for fashion and his great quest for beauty…

  • Carsten Höller: LEBEN

    Carsten Höller’s show Leben allows visitors to do more than just view the exhibits. From staying overnight in his robotically operated bed to immersing themselves in a flotation tank, the artist invites them to engage all their senses

  • Steve McQueen: Ashes

    With his film Ashes, and an accompanying pair of sculptures, Steve McQueen highlights an uncomfortable truth about the untimely deaths of many young black men

  • The Nakeds

    Egon Schiele’s iconic drawings are a starting point for this extensive group show at Drawing Room, titled The Nakeds. The exhibition looks at the extent of Schiele’s influence on contemporary artists, while placing a finger on current issues of feminism,…

  • Trajectories: 19th-21st Century Printmaking from India and Pakistan

    Trajectories looks at printmaking from India and Pakistan and establishes a context for its development there within the broader scope of world art history

  • 5 x 5 (2014)

    Washington DC is hosting its second 5 x 5, a public arts festival that sees an extraordinary diversity of temporary artworks springing up all over the city. And, below, Lance Fung curator of Nonuments, one of the festival’s projects, talks…

  • Peter Sacks interview: ‘Every painting has its own secret story’

    Peter Sacks, a South African expatriate, has a biography that is as rich and varied as the art he practises. Having left his native country at a young age and gone on to become a recognised poet with tenure at…

  • John Keane interview: ‘Art shouldn’t be sensationalist, but at the same time it shouldn’t flinch from addressing difficult questions’

    John Keane, artist in residence at the University of St Andrews, talks about the political influences behind his painting and his views on the relationship between art, performance and politics

  • Cubism: The Leonard A Lauder Collection

    This superbly sensitive installation of the four greats of Cubism – Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger and Juan Gris – conveys the courage bordering on insanity that ended a centuries-old pictorial tradition

  • Natalia Kolodzei interview: ‘My dream is that every American museum has a small collection of Russian art’

    Natalia Kolodzei, executive director of the Kolodzei Art Foundation, talks about her family collection of Soviet and Russian art, begun in the 1960s when Nikita Khrushchev’s leadership of the Soviet Union led to slightly more freedom for artists

  • Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor

    Robert Gober is perhaps best-known for his deceptively simple sculptures – in particular his sinks – but this large-scale survey of his work at MoMA, including drawings, print and photographs, draws us in to the intricacies of the artist’s storytelling

  • Store your art in an egg

    UOVO, a $70m state-of-the-art storage facility for high-end artwork, is to open in New York City next month. As well as providing a museum-quality environment, it will also act as a highly accessible archive

  • Panamarenko Universum

    In this retrospective of postwar artist and inventor Panamarenko, alias Henri van Herwegen, the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen offers more than 40 works, accompanied by drawings, models and sketches

  • Glenn Adamson interview: ‘Webb saw clearly that human connection was the real value to be found in the handmade’

    As New York’s Museum of Arts and Design celebrates its founder, Aileen Osborn Webb, with a superb array of 100 objects, including some made by Webb herself, MAD’s director, Glenn Adamson, talks about this indomitable pioneer of foundational craft organisations…

  • Ed Fornieles interview: ‘If you want access to the site, it’s a trade of your photos or data’

    For his show at the Chisenhale Gallery, Ed Fornieles has created a suburban Los Angeles television set with a twist. Titled Modern Family, the exhibition explores how contemporary identities are shaped by our online existences

  • Aleah Chapin: interview

    American artist Aleah Chapin has had huge success early in her career. On graduating from the New York Academy of Art she was made a postgraduate fellow and went on to become one of the youngest artists to win the…

  • Fritz Wotruba – Homage to Michelangelo

    In a posthumous retrospective of the drawings and sculptures of Fritz Wotruba, the souls of the inanimate are evident as he revives our view of an earlier master

  • Glenn Ligon: interview

    Glenn Ligon, who was born in 1960, is famed for his thought-provoking works, which combine text, silkscreen painting, neon and video, and explore themes of identity, racism, sexuality and civil rights. Ligon spoke to Studio International before the opening of…