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Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia and Friends

Conviviality and friendship shine through this group show exploring the works of Li Yuan-chia and that of the artist friends he showed at his LYC Museum and Art Gallery in Cumbria. Plus: contemporary artists reflect on his legacy
Hej Rup! The Czech Avant-Garde

This show is full of revelations – cubism in furniture, a love for tubular steel designs and a self-sufficient village for workers are just a few of those that mark the Czech art world as presented here
Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990

From women’s lib to the Greenham Common camps, this powerful show covers to two decades in which women rose up in protest – and their concerns are as relevant today as they were 50 years ago
Sara Reisman – interview: ‘This was an opportunity to engage with contemporary issues that interest our members and to work with artists and architects from the larger art community’

Sara Reisman, chief curator at the National Academy of Design, talks about the institution’s 200-year history and its aims for the future, and picks out some favourites from its current show, Drawing as Practice
Zarina Bhimji: Flagging It Up

Her quietly reflective films and photographs, with their evocative use of colour and light, are things of beauty, but their true depth and meaning are only revealed on slow looking
Elias Sime: Eregata እርጋታ

In the Ethiopian artist’s first major European museum exhibition, labour-intensive works made from discarded electronic components sit alongside clay vessels and mud-and-straw sculptures, prompting us to reconsider the role of technology in our lives
Frans Hals

Eight rooms filled with sumptuous embroidery and fine-spun lace worn by sitters with laughing, gurning and awed faces: The Laughing Cavalier is but one of a cast of many
Nimrod Vardi and Claudel Goy – interview: ‘We want to explore what it means to rethink the history of digital arts in the UK and worldwide’

The co-directors of arebyte, a charitable organisation specialising in digital art, talk about being based in London’s new cultural hub, nurturing young and upcoming artists, and the current show by Zach Blas
LA roundup 2023

To know the art scene in Los Angeles calls on a lifetime of cruising its streets, storefronts, museums, galleries and riverbanks. All are stages for creative expression, every neighbourhood is fair game for pop-up display, and now that LA artists…
Radical Landscapes

A green and pleasant land or a place of aristocratic privilege for some and backbreaking labour and protest for others? An intriguing exhibition at William Morris’ Walthamstow residence explores how landscape art and radical politics have intersected