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David Cross: ‘Art is what fills the gap between how the world is and how I’d love it to be’

A reader at the University of the Arts London, Cross talks about his struggle to persuade the university to cut ties with fossil fuel investments and his continuing efforts to bridge the gap between commerce and environmental ethics
Kerstin Brätsch_Ruine / Kaya_Kovo

Brätsch is an artist who works in the afterlife of modern painting, upending its history and mythology with Rabelaisian glee – and her latest exhibition is no exception
Phyllida Barlow: ‘It’s the first time I’ve experienced making something not within my control. Letting go of that was horrifying’

As her first permanent artwork, Quarry is unveiled at Jupiter Artland, outside Edinburgh, Barlow talks about its conception and creation, its location in the woods surrounding the house and gardens, and the ‘horrifying’ experience of ceding control to engineers and…
Joana Vasconcelos: Gateway

Vasconcelos’s solo show offers a riot of colour and texture in this highly personal, curated sculpture park, celebrating the duality – the glamour and the grind, the dreams and the heartbreak – that typifies women’s lives, on a monumental scale
Callum Innes: Byzantine Blue, Delft Blue, Paris Blue

Five of Innes’ paintings form the inaugural exhibition for the Ingleby gallery’s new space, an austere building formerly used for worship that has been beautifully refurbished. Together, the art and architecture provide a fitting 20th-anniversary celebration for the gallery
Contemporary Chinese Works on Paper – A Review

A microcosm of Chinese art and social change at Ipswich Art Gallery – this group show of works on paper by contemporary artists from China draws on, plays with and subverts the canons of art history from both the east…
Nigel Shafran: Work Books 1984-2018

Newly established gallery project Sion and Moore combines the creative experiences of its two founders with the craft of designer Michael Marriott, achieving an intriguing environment in which to view Nigel Shafran’s tantalising Work Books
Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)

A colossal retrospective at the Louvre liberates the French romantic from his early history painting and reaffirms his lofty place in the pantheon
Celia Pym – interview: ‘I didn’t ever see the point of invisible mending’

Describing herself as ‘an artist who works in textiles’ Pym talks about her recent surgery for mending at the V&A, why she mends old clothes and artefacts, and why she feels it is so important to see the damage and…
Jane Irish: ‘There is a critical strain about the anti-war movement that I want to commemorate, so I really think of my work as history painting’

For the first time in its 200-year history, a mansion in Philadelphia is transformed into a major public art project by American artist Jane Irish. She talks about a career spent exploring anti-war activism
Harriet Middleton-Baker: ‘I enjoy the potential for opera to be seriously extreme’

The artist talks about unpicking the story of William Hogarth’s A Harlot’s Progress and using her latest opera to explore architectural form, power distribution and the ambivalence of feminism in a corporate climate
Fergus McCaffrey Gallery opens in Japan

Since founding his New York gallery in 2006, Fergus McCaffrey has been instrumental in introducing postwar Japanese art to a western audience. He talks about his deep attachment to Japanese art and craft and his hopes for his new gallery…
The Ol’ Switcheroo

This group exhibition, by the artists Rebecca Lennon, Sarah Duffy and Sophie Jung with curator Carolina Ongaro, is like a brimming basket of foraged goods, a container for ever-changing stories
Ettore Spalletti: ‘A yellow can lead me so far away into the light that I don’t even know whether I’m an abstract or figurative painter’

On the opening of his exhibition at the Galerie Marian Goodman, the Italian artist recounts his ritualistic process, the elusiveness of colour and why paintings should be like churches
Adapt to Survive: Notes from the Future

The Hayward Gallery’s group show suggests future survival will demand that humans adjust to changing circumstances rather than adapting the environment to maintain their current mode of living
Chila Kumari Burman: ‘I scribble and make a mess in my studio. My whole studio is one big drawing’

Burman talks about the inspirations for her intricate, multilayered works, including her latest commissions for the Science Museum and an exhibition honouring suffragettes – and why she bought a tuk-tuk
Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art

Shape of Light is an exhibition for die-hard art photography enthusiasts. The rest of us will struggle
Berlin Gallery Weekend 2018

Painting is back, and Berlin’s Gallery Weekend proved a great opportunity to survey its return
New York hosts Frieze, Tefaf and more

Leading the pack of satellite fairs crowding contemporary art week, Frieze, revamped under a new director, and Tefaf Spring quelled art market jitters with safe material and brisk sales
Art Brussels 2018

The annual art fair, which this year celebrated it’s 50th anniversary, impressed with its congenial atmosphere, international purview and keenness on curation
Dallas Art Fair

The 10th edition of the major art showcase was an affirmation of the city’s commitment to visual culture
Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece

Come to the British Museum to eavesdrop on a conversation across the millennia between Auguste Rodin and Pheidias, his mentor from the fifth century BC
Cedric Morris – portraits, places and flowers: three exhibitions

Three exhibitions capture a slice of 20th-century bohemia with portraits of people, places and, most vividly, flowers, by the award-winning artist-plantsman Cedric Morris
Paul Maheke: ‘Michael Jackson is the reason I dance. And Felix Gonzalez-Torres is the reason I still believe in the political potency of making art’

Through installation, sound, film and dance, Paul Maheke’s work explores gender and racial stereotypes, articulating the restrictions placed around black, male and queer identities. For his first major solo show, at the Chisenhale Gallery, he has stepped out of the…