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Jan Tschichold and the New Typography

Drawing on materials Tschichold collected, this exhibition traces his influence on graphic design between the world wars and his belief that design was a force for social change
A beautiful thing: Sauerbruch Hutton’s M9 Museum in Mestre opens

Italy’s first all-digital history museum, M9, has opened across from Venice. With its sleek, ceramic-tiled buildings and inspired public spaces, its architect, Sauerbruch Hutton, has made quite a statement
Magdalene Odundo: The Journey of Things

The Kenyan-born artist’s lustrous ceramics become the anchor for a voyage through three millennia of objects and artworks
Sara Piccinini – interview: ‘We don’t want to give an idea of completeness with this exhibition, that’s not our goal’

In 2007, the formidable art collection of Achille Maramotti, the man behind the Max Mara fashion house, was opened to the public. Sara Piccinini, senior coordinator of the collection, talks about the history of the collection, and the thinking behind…
Phoebe Boswell – interview: ‘Grief is not a personal thing. It’s a human condition’

Boswell’s latest exhibition, The Space Between Things, which includes a video of her undergoing an eye operation, uses art as a way to connect with others whose wounds may otherwise remain unseen
All The Rembrandts

For the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death, the Rijksmuseum is staging a once-in-a-generation exhibition – 22 paintings, 60 drawings and 300 prints. It is extraordinary, revealing, inspiring – and a little overwhelming
Phyllida Barlow: Cul-de-Sac

This exhibition of new work is more pared back than we have come to expect from Barlow. Her aim, she says, is ‘to come back to what is essential’
Ghislaine Leung: Constitution

In Leung’s new installation, it is clear she has a point to make. Just what that point is, though, is not so clear
Julianne Swartz interview – ‘Joy is also talking about sorrow and despair, so we will know what joy is’

Swartz talks about Joy, Still, her site-specific sound installation at Grace Farms, and how the multi-use centre in Connecticut, designed by the Japanese-based firm Sanaa, became her instrument
Imre Bak – interview: ‘In today’s language, we need to achieve some kind of balance between the local and the global’

The neo-avant-gardist recalls cold war isolation, his enduring commitment to geometric abstraction, and the importance of maintaining Hungarian traditions in his art
Kader Attia: The Museum of Emotion

Attia offers an impassioned critique of the enduring effects of colonialism. Central to the French-Algerian artist’s sculptures, installation, collages, videos and photographs is the idea of post-colonial repair, as both a physical and symbolic act
Erwin Wurm – interview: ‘I’m horrified about our environment, about our future’

The Austrian sculptor, famed for sheathing social commentary in comic forms, talks about absurdity, handicraft, the mass media and the future
Makeshift

Through site-specific installations, this visually splendid exhibition explores the role of the artist’s studio in contemporary practices
Htein Lin – interview: ‘I wanted to show that I could also continue to create while in jail’

Htein Lin was imprisoned for challenging the military dictatorship in Myanmar. Here, he talks about his time in jail and his sculptural installation A Show of Hands, a testament to former political prisoners, now on show at the Albright-Knox Art…
Netherlands ⇄ Bauhaus: Pioneers of a New World

This show celebrates the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus, guiding you through the fascinating history of a movement that still has enduring relevance
Harald Sohlberg: Painting Norway

Harald Sohlberg’s paintings of Norwegian houses and snowy mountains are saturated with colour and mystery, making Dulwich Picture Gallery’s exhibition of his work the perfect way to see out the winter months
Nari Ward – interview: ‘I wouldn’t be the artist I am now if I hadn’t moved to Harlem’

We the People, Nari Ward’s latest exhibition, at New Museum, New York, underlines the critical role the city has played in his career. Here, he discusses the importance of Harlem, the neighbourhood that continues to inform his work
Nguyen Trinh Thi – interview: ‘I want to unpick the way we look at things’

The Vietnamese film-maker talks about documenting female spirits, regional journalism and the ecological destruction of Vietnam’s heartlands
Eva van Tongeren – interview: ‘When Thomas writes about his crime so beautifully, the crime is disguised by beauty’

Corresponding with a jailed paedophile led Van Tongeren to collaborate with him to make a film. She discusses their relationship and the moral and ethical implications of working with someone who has committed such a heinous crime
Christine Lindey – interview: ‘The artists’ principled adherence to their political convictions motivated them to resist conforming to the dominant cultural power’

Christine Lindey, author of Art for All. British Socially Committed Art from the 1930s to the Cold War, discusses an era of artists committed to their political beliefs and prepared to take a stand with their work
Jeff Koons

From a balloon bunny to a vast, glossy pink Venus of Willendorf, there is everything we would expect from Koons at his latest exhibition at the Ashmolean – but there is also a sense that he has run out of…
Elevation 1049: Frequencies

Set in the spectacular alpine resort of Gstaad, the Elevation 1049 festival explores contemporary art practice. This year it focused on performance art, with a programme of works over one weekend, and a new Doug Aitken installation, Mirage Gstaad, which…
Vivian Maier: The Color Work

The Color Work continues the institutional recovery of Maier, whose street photographs of New York and Chicago documented social reality during the cold war era
Don McCullin

McCullin is widely known as a war photographer, but this comprehensive and unflinching exhibition, covering 60 years of his photojournalism and more, shows the full scope of his work