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Camille Claudel

Her legacy has often been dwarfed by her biography – as Rodin’s student and lover, who spent 30 years in a psychiatric institution. But with a new museum in her name, and 11 of her works saved for the French…
Michael Armitage: ‘Can an art space function in the same way as a chapel?’

The artist weaves multiple narratives to evoke the complexity of East African society. Here, he talks about his exhibition The Chapel, at the South London Gallery, and how it gave him the chance to think about religion, spirituality and politics…
After White: Michaela Zimmer and Peter Welz

Weaving a path in and out of Peter Welz’s awkward steel architectural intervention, the viewer comes up close and personal, in an unsettling way, with Michaela Zimmer’s layered canvases. Scratch the surface and there is far more to be told…
Encountering the Buddha and the Kandell Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room – an interview with curator Debra Diamond

The curator talks about Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia, the current exhibition at the Arthur M Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, which took three years to organise and brought together more than 200 objects spanning two…
Andreas Gursky

This first major UK retrospective of German photographer Andreas Gursky, at the newly renovated Hayward Gallery, is a must-see visual feast of epic proportions
Sophie Herxheimer: ‘I’m after precision in poetry … I’m after exactly what it was I heard … the kernel of what the voice said to me’

The poet, writer and image-maker talks about the ideas and inspiration that inform her work
Merrie Albion: Landscape Studies of a Small Island

From the diamond jubilee to the ruins of Grenfell Tower, Simon Roberts captures the events that have defined the British experience of the past decade
Jason Brooks: ‘In a world that wants to eradicate detail by airbrushing it out, I’m interested in airbrushing it in’

Ahead of his exhibition at Marlborough, London, Jason Brooks showed Studio International around his Gloucestershire studio, revealing some of his inspirations and motivations
Charles I: King and Collector

The Royal Academy celebrates its 250th year with a collection of riches fit for a king – and every room is packed with drama
A New Era: Scottish Modern Art, 1900-1950

At a time when the UK’s relationship with the rest of Europe is at stake, this exhibition of the artistic dialogue between Scotland and the continent is illuminating and inspiring
Art Now: Marguerite Humeau: Echoes

French-born artist Marguerite Humeau resurrects an eerie voice from the ancient past at Tate Britain. And she adds in some exotic fluids for good measure
Threesome and 3X3

Curator Anna McNay has put together two exhibitions – Threesome, a collaboration between three female painters, and 3X3, photographic self-portraits by nine queer female artists – which explore the female gaze with the aim of ‘making people question how they…
The Land We Live In – The Land We Left Behind

With an extraordinary diversity of work, from medieval Korean ceramics to cutting-edge conceptual art to Women’s Institute tea towels, this show aims to dispel the myth of the rural as a picturesque backwater, and assert its right as a vital…
Lumiere London 2018

Featuring works by 50 artists and digital / lighting studios and producers, this feast of light and sound turned London into a spectacular, highly photogenic, pulsing theme park. But in its efforts to maximise entertainment, it fell short on actual…
Cézanne Portraits

A deep humanity surfaces in this outstanding exhibition of more than 50 of Cézanne’s portraits
A History of Drawing

The inaugural exhibition at the Camberwell College of Arts’ new space is a sensitive, nuanced look at eight decades of a core artistic form
What Absence Is Made Of

This exhibition brings together more than 70 works from the Hirshhorn’s collection in an attempt to explore how artists attempt to show what absence looks like
Edmund Clark: ‘The intervention, the control, the censorship is part of what I do’

Edmund Clark discusses his recent residency at the UK’s only wholly therapeutic prison, HMP Grendon; his time spent on Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan; and how intervention and censorship have become a part of his work
Tabita Rezaire: ‘Reclamation allowed me to glow into my blackness, womanhood and queerness’

Tabita Rezaire talks about ‘decolonial healing’, her response to cyber-racism and the distorted representation of black people on the internet, communication technologies from the spiritual world, and empowering artists to have self-respect
Philip Pearlstein: Paintings 1990 – 2017

Philip Pearlstein’s nudes are a triumph of draughtsmanship and the product of a lifetime of learning and graft. And although he strives for images devoid of stories, this skill betrays a more enigmatic world
Anne de Boer & ecksenis.net: System Attempt Contact

System Attempt Contact critiques the way today’s tech multinationals transcend the borders between global and local, city and suburb, on- and offline
Charles II: Art and Power

The Royal Collection’s exploration of the Merrie Monarch is a historical exhibition par excellence, presenting the king as a gateway to the art, culture and advances of the Restoration
Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (UABB) 2017: Cities, Grow in Difference

This biennale is determined to take account of residents, focusing on micro-housing and smaller residential complexes and involving community as much as architecture
Torbjørn Rødland: Back in Touch

Secrets lurk in Rødland’s photographs, but in chasing the thrill of the secret, his images fall short of the desired effect