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John Piper
A lopsided retrospective reveals an artist who thrived best when he was commissioned or working in collaboration
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Sriwhana Spong: a hook but no fish
Spong explores the invented language of Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th-century mystic. Over the Pump House Gallery’s four storeys, boundaries of sense are undone and remade – drawing the viewer into a history that cuts through the present
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Bharti Kher: ‘In the way a kitchen has many different things cooking at the same time, so does my studio’
Kher talks about the difficulty of being identified as an ‘Indian’ artist, being a procrastinator, and making material things do things they don’t want to
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Peter Hill: ‘I have a love for the solitude of lighthouses at one extreme and the energy of Chicago or Berlin at the other’
The artist talks about his creation of a fictional museum, his current lecture tour, Fake News + Superfictions, and the artists who have influenced him
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Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection
A museum committed to the art of the American South presents an exhibition that highlights the contributions of postwar and contemporary African-American artists in order to assert their place within mainstream modernist narratives
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Peter Doig
The Scottish painter’s latest works are as beautiful as ever, but exhibit a newfound looseness, playfulness and sense of violence
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Sofia Stevi: Turning forty winks into a decade
Greek artist Sofia Stevi’s paintings ooze confidence, sensuality and an improvisational spontaneity. Yet her flair and inventiveness with a paintbrush are something of a recent discovery – to Stevi as well as to the rest of us
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From Life
This exhibition sets out to explore the significance of life drawing and the life class in art practice, but the real joy of drawing is largely overlooked
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Latif Al Ani: ‘I was documenting for the sake of archiving. I never thought Iraq would arrive at what it has today’
The Iraqi photographer considers his photographic preservation of a long-vanished Iraq, his preoccupation with beauty, and the desire to share his country’s pain with viewers
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Ania Dabrowska: ‘By the retelling of archival stories we have the power to articulate new ideas of how we want to formulate our own identities’
Ania Dabrowska (b1973) is a Polish-born artist now living in London. She works with photography, moving image, installation, text and sound, and has a particular interest in the political and creative potency of archives within contemporary culture. She has had…
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Technology and Art 10: LINGUISTICS AND TOYS AT THE ICA
“Increasing numbers of mathematicians and of engineers have joined them [poets, philologists and philosophers], attracted by technical problems, formerly ignored or considered trivial… Play Orbit…`toys, games and playables by people who are not professionally involved with the design of playthings,…
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From Ear to Ear to Eye: Sounds and Stories From Across the Arab World
This powerful show fuses art and music in an attempt to open ears and eyes to life in the Arab world
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Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by Jean Nouvel
Jean Nouvel has conceived a masterful new structure for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, at once utterly modern in its technical and environmental specifications, but beautifully attuned to the ancient Arabic sense of place, and affinities with geometry and astronomy
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Cybernetic Serendipity 50th Anniversary
The Studio International special issue Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts was first published in July 1968 to accompany the ICA exhibition of the same name curated by Jasia Reichardt. Both the publication and the exhibition are now legendary
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Museum Gift of the Year: The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine
As 2017 Museum Gift of the Year, Studio International has chosen the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine, a magnificent donation by Dr Alice Kandell of more than 200 precious Buddhist artefacts to the Arthur M Sackler Gallery in Washington DC
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Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test
Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! joins an effort by progressive cultural institutions to mark the centenary of the October Revolution, an event that shook the world
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Köken Ergun: ‘In Turkey, the image of the soldier has been victimised by Erdoğan’
The Turkish film-maker talks about his 2005 video I, Soldier, and its relevance to the political situation in his country today
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Music From The Balconies – Ed Ruscha and Los Angeles
Moving to Los Angeles at 19, having grown up in Oklahoma City, Ed Ruscha was always an outsider. His detached perspective is a quality that has remained in his work – which would become so concerned with the city –…
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Rose Wylie: Quack Quack
The octogenarian painter’s enormous, unpredictable canvases are by turns joyful and fearsome, introvert and extrovert, ordered and chaotic
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2017
It was all systems go – quality art, media buzz, more space, more work – but with a lower attendance and many big collector names absent, America’s premier art fair had a last hurrah undertow
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Shirazeh Houshiary: ‘We can’t fix our identity or our borders, the only real border is our skin’
Houshiary talks about evolution, Einstein and shamans, and how her work involves thinking in other dimensions
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Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting
This is a rich and expansive retrospective of Schneemann’s work over the past six decades
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John Stezaker: ‘I was trying to create a sort of photographic cubism’
The British artist discusses a series of 1970s collages that launched his career, and which have been brought together for an exhibition in New York
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