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Anonymous Was a Woman

This elegantly composed exhibition celebrates 25 years’ of awards to female artists by Anonymous Was a Woman and emphasises how creative practice has changed over time
European Realities

The first of its kind, this vast show is a stunning tour of the realism movement of the 1920s and 30s, bringing together artists from across Europe
Maggi Hambling: ‘The sea is sort of inside me now … [and] it’s as if she has become a wave’

Maggi Hambling’s new and highly personal installation, Time, in memory of her longtime partner, Tory Lawrence, opens the first arts and culture programme at Norfolk’s 18th-century Wolterton Hall as part of the exhibition Sea State
Caspar Heinemann: Sod All

The artist takes us on a deep, dark emotional dive with his nihilistic installation that references obscure religious books, occultism, folk revivalism and sexual politics through a typical mixture of found and repurposed materials
Donald Locke: Resistant Forms

Complex, multilayered paintings and sculptures reek of the dark histories of slavery and colonialism in the first major UK retrospective of the Guyanese British artist
Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons

Shown in the context of the historic paintings of Dulwich Picture Gallery, Jones’s new paintings extend the iconography of the mouth in modern art
William Mackrell – interview: ‘I have an interest in dissecting the myth of Sisyphus – the persistence in the seemingly impossible’

His work has included lighting 1,000 candles and getting two horses to pull a car. Now, he is using his dismantled childhood bed in one show and dancing in overalls laden with coins in another. He explains his interest in…
Marina Tabassum – interview: ‘Architecture is my life and my lifestyle, everything together’

The award-winning Bangladeshi architect behind this year’s Serpentine Pavilion on why she has shunned ‘flashy buildings with instant appeal’ and instead built a mosque and housing for refugees
A cabinet of curiosities – inside the new V&A East Storehouse

Diller Scofidio + Renfro has turned the 2012 Olympics broadcasting centre into a sparkling repository for the V&A’s collection. A new kind of statement building where the excitement is all on the inside, this hybrid of archive and museum an…
Plásmata 3: We’ve met before, haven’t we?

This nocturnal exhibition organised by the Onassis Foundation’s cultural platform transforms a public park in Athens into a space for encountering artworks at night