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Rory Pilgrim – interview: ‘I hope the work I create is like a permaculture – always living’

This year’s Turner Prize nominee talks about choosing between a career in music and art, the Dutch attitude to artists and their collaborative process, which includes a new project, working with prisoners
Philip Guston

This strait-laced, work-focused retrospective affirms Philip Guston’s place as one of the 20th century’s finest painters
Edvard Munch: Magic of the North and Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth

Two major exhibitions celebrate Munch’s works this autumn. One draws attention to his time in Berlin at the turn of the 20th century, the other directs the view on to his impressions of landscape
Kim Conaty – interview: ‘Ruth Asawa pursued drawing throughout her life, the sculpture coming from it, wire the equivalent of line’

Conaty, the Whitney Museum’s curator of prints and drawings, explains what led her to organise a show of Asawa’s drawings rather than the wire sculptures for which she is famed
Farah Al Qasimi: Abort, Retry, Fail

In her first solo UK show, Al Qasimi’s photographs and video work respond to our escapist tendencies while challenging us to grapple with the difficult ambiguities of what we see
Matt Rugg: Connecting Form

In the first major retrospective of the British abstract artist and teacher, his playful curiosity for found industrial materials and unswervingly experimental eye come into their own
Bartosz Beda: interview: ‘In chaos, there is always some kind of order’

Beda, whose solo show Echoes of Seasons is at the Art Gallery of Collin College in Plano, Texas, talks about his process, the thoughts behind his current works – and how he is influenced by his eastern European background
A Spirit Inside

Anchoring this jewel of a show is a diminutive work by Dora Carrington and, like the rest of the selection of works by female artists here, it is grouped with immense care and attention, allowing for unexpected dialogues between quite…
Turner Prize 2023

Four very different artists are contending for this year’s prize – Jesse Darling, Ghislaine Leung, Rory Pilgrim and Barbara Walker – with subjects including the Windrush scandal, our dysfunctional world and mental healthcare
Avery Singer – interview: ‘Art got me through some really dark places and still does’

Singer was 14 on 9/11 and what she witnessed took its toll on her mental health. Her experience of that day has informed Free Fall, her ambitious solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London, which considers the power of memory…