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Heike-Karin Föll: Speed

In her first institutional solo show, the German artist plays on the fast fickleness of commodification, trend and fashion
Junya Ishigami’s Serpentine Pavilion

Perhaps this is an idea that looked good on paper, but with its dark slate roof and unstable-looking structure, Junya Ishigami’s pavilion is oppressive and unwelcoming
France-Lise McGurn – interview: ‘I think I’ve got a certain aesthetic that’s rooted in 1990s Glasgow’

McGurn talks about motherhood, sleeplessness and strangeness in Glasgow, Berlin and Ibiza, and how they have fed into the work for her new exhibition at Tate Britain
Ima-Abasi Okon

Old air-conditioning units, poor-quality ceiling tiles coated with ultrasound gel and gold – the utilitarian and the precious come together in Okon’s fascinating installations
Andermatt Concert Hall

The Andermatt Concert Hall is a world-class auditorium, the first in the Swiss Alps, designed by architect Christina Seilern to help transform this former army town into a new destination for culture, as well as sport and tourism
Milton Avery: The Late Portraits

Focusing on works done in the final four years of Avery’s career, these portraits depict the people and motifs closest to him
Leo Warner – interview: ‘If you put the technology first, you can end up with very hollow artwork’

Warner, design director of multimedia visual artists and impresarios 59 Productions talks about collaborative creativity, working across global as well as technical boundaries, sources of inspiration and how technology should always be subservient to the story
Alberto Giacometti: A Line Through Time

This remarkable show traces Giacometti’s artistic career, displaying his works alongside those of some of his contemporaries and making clear his belief that drawing was the basis of everything
Issy Wood: All The Rage

Wood’s tragicomic paintings explore the apathetic alienation symptomatic of a networked, throwaway society, in which our understanding of ‘self’ is determined through the consumption of goods and images
Patrick Staff: The Prince of Homburg

Through video installation, sculpture and printmaking, Staff uses a play from 1810 as a vehicle to explore queerness and sexual identity in today’s world
Botanic: National Amalgamation Project

Iranian artist Maryam Najd talks about her exhibition at the Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology in Beijing and why she chose to embark on a project researching the national flowers of the world
Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage

This show explores the ways in which collage has been used to create work that is, by turns, playful, chaotic, expressive and innovative
Gustav Metzger – In King’s Lynn

This show of Metzger’s work, as part of the King’s Lynn Norfolk festival, looks at his years living in the town in the 1950s, a time that shaped his move to social engagement and activism in his output
Hans Ulrich Obrist – interview: ‘This is an unusual Calder show because it is about ideas. We see him in a new light’

A major Alexander Calder exhibition at Centro Botín in Santander reveals about 80 of the great American artist’s unrealised projects. Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator of the show, discusses these little-known collaborative works, which highlight Calder’s interest in the world around…
Yorkshire Sculpture International 2019

A new international quadrennial across Leeds and Wakefield opens with an introspective first edition, which finds the sculptural in some surprising places
Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing

The Queen’s Gallery showcases the Royal Collection’s superb archive of Leonardo da Vinci drawings in an exhibition that reflects the mischief and the magic behind the greatest mind of the Renaissance
Koen Vanmechelen – interview: ‘Now everyone is talking about diversity, but that is just a hashtag diversity’

In a joint venture with the Belgian city of Genk, the artist Koen Vanmechelen has built a €22m ecological park that presents art as an instigator of community development
Tess Jaray – interview: ‘Ways of being an artist have massively expanded’

Jaray looks back at a career that has spanned more than 60 years and talks about the influence on her of American painting in the 50s and 60s, the importance of architecture and teaching at the Slade
John Akomfrah: Ballasts of Memory

Akomfrah’s skill as a film-maker and visual storyteller shines through in this compelling show
Persia Reframed: Iranian Visions of Modern and Contemporary Art by Fereshteh Daftari – book review

This is a valuable guide to the history of the reception of modern and contemporary Iranian art in the west, offering a broad outlook on cultural interactions between Iran and major American cultural institutions in the past three decades
Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life

There are nearly 30 years of work in this retrospective, so it is to be hoped that, despite the show’s crowd-pleasing, selfie-inducing tone, visitors take in Eliasson’s serious environmental messages
New Orleans Museum Unveils Sculpture Garden Expansion

Devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the sculpture garden now has a spacious new extension and almost 30 additional works, including commissions from Teresita Fernández, Maya Lin and Elyn Zimmerman
Ibrahim Mahama: Parliament of Ghosts

Through the use of old train seats and other salvaged materials, the Ghanaian artist tells a story of his country, rich with the legacy of colonialism, independence and lost opportunities
Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet

The Royal Academy’s exhibition of Vallotton’s varied and strange work proves that some artists defy easy definitions