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Source and Stimulus: Polke, Lichtenstein, Laing

Presenting Roy Lichtenstein, Sigmar Polke and Gerald Laing in dialogue with each other within the context of their pop-inspired pointillism, Source and Stimulus is a vibrant study of the origin of the Ben-Day dot in fine art
Cary Leibowitz: ‘I hate my aesthetic. I wish I was delicate and elegant and smart and earth-shattering’

For his first major retrospective, the undersung American artist fills the ICA Philadelphia with more than 300 works that span a 30-year career. Leibowitz discusses how he established himself as an artist in the 1980s and 90s, and the origins…
All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life

Tate Britain’s All Too Human explores family, sex and death, and offers a fantastic chance to explore what connects some of the biggest names of the past 100 years
Alge Julija Kavaliauskaitė: ‘There is something about glass that I am continually drawn to’

Kavaliauskaitė, originally from Lithuania but now living in Finland, talks about art and alchemy, haunted mansions, her latest exhibition and why she was drawn to live in Nuutajärvi, a village famous for its glass-blowing
Anthony McCall: ‘The sculptural aspect of a piece occurs only at the moment of projection’

The pioneer of immersive, sculptural light installations explains his process and procedures, interests in performance, film and architecture, and his new exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield
Sam Stewart: ‘From a psychological perspective, working in someone’s home is a loaded experience’

For his first solo exhibition, artist-designer Sam Stewart transforms an unoccupied space within a New York townhouse by imagining the life of its mythical occupant
Cybernetic Serendipity: History and Lasting Legacy

Catherine Mason considers the ICA’s groundbreaking computer art exhibition of 1968 and looks at how it has shaped digital art in the 50 years since
Claudia Wieser: ’I know there is the danger of beauty in my work, or a danger that it becomes purely decorative’

Ahead of the opening of her current show at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, Berlin-based artist Claudia Wieser discusses her references from 1970s TV to Greek plays, and the danger of making work that is too beautiful
Evelyn Hankins: ‘Mark Bradford’s project directly challenges the idea of a single or objective transcription of history’

Hankins, senior curator at the Hirshhorn museum, explains how a collaboration with Mark Bradford led to the artist’s monumental cyclorama Pickett’s Charge, and why the subject, the 1883 Battle of Gettysburg, still resonates today in the US
David Milne: Modern Painting

An exhibition of work by the Canadian painter David Milne charts his progression from depictions of New York city scenes to the battlefields of France and Belgium back to the rural US and Canada, influenced on the way by European…
Art + Technology Week

Events planned around the Creativity and Collaboration: Revisiting Cybernetic Serendipity symposium at the National Academy of Sciences Sackler Colloquium, Washington D.C.
Andy Holden: ‘A lot of my work is a fidelity to what feels right more than an objective truth’

Andy Holden talks about his relationship with his father, the ornithologist Peter Holden, nature verses nurture, and sentimentality in the animal kingdom
The Enchanted Room: Modern Works from the Pinacoteca di Brera

Teeming with hidden treasures, this exhibition is a compact survey of key movements and artists in Italian modern art in the early 20th century, a febrile moment in the country’s artistic and political history
Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959-1989

The exhibition is a must-see for anyone interested in the early history of computer technology and its connection to art and design
Giorgio Griffa: A Continuous Becoming

With references to the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio, Griffa’s paintings are works to puzzle out and ponder
Zhang Enli: ‘I pay attention to the subtle things that you might usually ignore’

The artist known for focusing on the poetic aspects of daily life talks about new approaches to painting as seen in his current series of works, which draws on gardens situated in the bustling urban environment of Shanghai
Yto Barrada: ‘The whole thing is a dance between a mad poet, children and ghosts’

Yto Barrada discusses her new exhibition at the Barbican Centre, which draws on a calamitous earthquake and the remarkable text it prompted
Lydia Ourahmane – interview: ‘Working with this personal history is something I have to deal with now, as a way of moving forward’

Lydia Ourahmane talks about her exhibition at the Chisenhale Gallery, allegiance, betrayal, drawing on her Algerian family history for her work, and why she nearly dropped out of art school
Virtual Normality: Women Net Artists 2.0

This exhibition looks at how social media platforms and the digital manipulation of images are being used to reflect on the ideals of female bodies
Maija Luutonen: ‘I’m not a big fan of monuments’

Maija Luutonen is the inaugural recipient of the Kiasma Commission by Kordelin, a project to promote contemporary Finnish art. Here, she discusses her exhibition at Helsinki’s Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, community-building, monuments and painting on paper
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, extension

Jamie Fobert Architects’ new wing for Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge opened this month, doubling the education space and bringing its facilities bang up to date. How harmonious is the marriage of this incisive 21st-century building with the Georgian and modernist…
Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil

As revealed by this tightly curated exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Tarsila do Amaral, the latest artist to ride the current wave of Brazilian modernism, turns out to have invented it
Glenn Brown: Come to Dust

In a hulking presentation at Gagosian, the painter laureate of putrefaction continues to moulder old masterpieces into pestilent husks. To what end remains elusive
Andrew Lacon: Fragments – Kate V Robertson: This Mess Is Kept Afloat

Two exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts confront and explore the relationships between the viewer, the art itself and the gallery space, in playful and thought-provoking ways