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  • Primrose: Early Colour Photography in Russia

    From austere family portraits of the 1860s to Rodchenko’s Stalinist propaganda posters and the subversive underground images of the 1960s and 70s, this elegant Photographers’ Gallery exhibition takes us through a century of Russia’s history

  • Mark Soo interview: ‘The object of observation changes by being observed’

    Multimedia artist Mark Soo tells A Will Brown about his interest in the interconnection of elements, how a work of art changes when a passerby looks at it, and how Detroit techno music led him to 19th-century paddlewheel steamships

  • Micro-Events: Tsuneko Taniuchi

    Blurring the line between reality and fiction, performance artist Tsuneko Taniuchi tries to change our preconceptions of society through “Micro-Events” that include her dressing as a homeless bag lady and taking part in mass weddings

  • The lives of the women behind the Zero artists

    Strong Women For Art: In Conversation with Anna Lenz Published by Hirmer, 2013

  • An Idiosyncratic A to Z of the Human Condition

    This whimsical interactive exhibition from the Wellcome Collection, with its weird and wonderful objects, guides us through an alphabetical history of medicine, says Kate Tiernan

  • Gego: Line as Object

    German-born artist Gego once claimed that sculpture was never what she did, but the Henry Moore Institute is absolutely right in putting on her first UK exhibition, says Anna McNay

  • Ed Atkins: interview

    Anna McNay spoke to Ed Atkins about his current exhibition at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, where his film Ribbons (2014) is showing alongside related installations of text and image

  • Where Were You?

    Lisson Gallery continues its minimalist aesthetic with the work of nine artists, five of whom have never shown before in the UK. Kate Tiernan went to view it

  • Lisa Corinne Davis: interview

    Lisa Corinne Davis talks to Lilly Wei about her multilayered, map-like paintings, the complex relationship between race, culture and history, and her hope that her work will challenge preconceived notions of identity

  • Louise Bourgeois: A Woman Without Secrets

    Louise Bourgeois is best known for her spider sculptures, including Maman for Tate Modern. This exhibition of her later works is akin to a self-portrait, a web of contradictions and ambiguities, says Anna McNay

  • NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial

    Jake Yuzna, director of public programmes at the Museum of Arts and Design, talks to Cindi di Marzo about the wildly diverse entries selected from the city’s creative communities for the museum’s first biennial

  • Rashid Johnson: Magic Numbers

    Rashid Johnson talks about his show Magic Numbers at the George Economou Collection in Athens, his use of shea butter, black soap and wax and how Afrocentrism has informed his work

  • Isa Genzken: Botanical Garden

    The beautiful surroundings of Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden provide the backdrop for German artist Isa Genzken’s humorous, disturbing and powerful work from the past decade, including photographs, collages and, most arresting of all, mannequins.

  • Calum Colvin: interview

    Calum Colvin talks to Christiana Spens about the influences behind his art and photography, his feelings about contemporary Scottish society, and how, if he had the budget, he would like to make a film.

  • Anita Taylor: interview

    Anita Taylor, dean of Bath School of Art and Design at Bath Spa University and the founder of the Jerwood drawing prize project, talked to Studio International about her own drawing practice, the importance of drawing in education, and the…

  • Drawn Together: Artist as Selector

    The Jerwood Gallery Hastings invited Anita Taylor, dean of Bath School of Art and Design at Bath Spa University and the founder of the Jerwood drawing prize project, to curate an exhibition of drawings by artists who have been on…

  • Susan Hiller: Resounding

    Susan Hiller’s exploration of anthropology and psychoanalysis sees her collecting, cataloguing, restaging and reforming cultural artefacts. Her work provides a fascinating insight into the mind and memory, says Christiana Spens

  • Rose Wylie: interview

    Studio International visited the painter Rose Wylie in her studio in Kent, to see the new paintings she’s working on. Wylie, who is 80 this year, and has painted all her life, has also taught in further education, and, with…

  • Wendy White: interview

    Wendy White: Madrid Me Mata Arts + Leisure Gallery, New York City 16 July – 1 September 2014

  • Here and Elsewhere

    New Museum, New York 16 July – 28 September 2014

  • Sapporo International Art Festival 2014

    Sapporo, Japan 19 July – 28 September 2014

  • Body & Void: Echoes of Moore in Contemporary Art

    Henry Moore Foundation 1 May – 26 October 2014

  • I Must First Apologise …

    Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige Villa Arson, Nice 6 July – 13 October 2014

  • Peter Hujar

    Maureen Paley Gallery, London 19 July – 24 August 2014