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Renovated Bass Museum Reopens

After more than two years and a $12m makeover by architects David Gauld with Arata Isozaki, the Miami Beach museum of art has opened its doors once again. It’s more spacious and welcoming and has some ambitious work on show
Jeanne Mammen: The Observer. Retrospective (1910-75)

Mammen wanted to be “a pair of eyes, walking through the world unseen, only to be able to see others”. This retrospective, although stretching beyond the best period of her observational work in the Berlin of the 20s, offers visitors…
Impulse

Art critic Clement Greenberg coined the term ‘post-painterly abstraction’ to describe the work of the five artists in this exhibition – Morris Louis, Ed Clark, Sam Gilliam, Frank Bowling and Kenneth Noland – yet, until recently, many of them haven’t…
Yayoi Kusama Museum opens in Tokyo

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, famous for her polka dots and pumpkins, opened her own museum in Tokyo in October, where she can permanently show her works and promote her message of world peace and love for humanity
Modigliani

This extraordinary retrospective unites Modigliani’s portraits and sculpture with the largest collection of his nude paintings ever shown together in the UK, as well as allowing visitors a virtual reality tour of the artist’s Paris studio
Nnenna Okore: ‘My work seeks to highlight Earth’s vulnerability and fragility’

Okore’s sculptures are poetic odes to the natural world. But beneath the delicate beauty there lies a pervading tension. She talks about how life and death in the natural world informs her practice
William Kentridge: ‘One needs sometimes to show the power of the irrational world as a demonstration of the limits of the rational world’

William Kentridge talks about his recent performance of Kurt Schwitters’ sound poem Ursonate, dadaists and interpreting the world
Carmen Herrera

Herrera’s abstract, geometric paintings pulse with life in this solo show. She was discovered late – she sold her first painting in 2004, at the age of 89 – and her work has a concentrated intensity that speaks of many…
Louisa Fairclough: A Song Cycle for the Ruins of a Psychiatric Unit

At the Danielle Arnaud gallery in London, Louisa Fairclough’s exhibition A Song Cycle for the Ruins of a Psychiatric Unit uses a derelict mental hospital as metaphor for the turmoil of psychological trauma
Veronica Ryan: ‘I’m interested in the semantics of perception’

The artist talks about her continuing connection with the sculptures of Barbara Hepworth, and how her interest in psychological trauma, and her own family history, has shaped her art
Arthur Watson: ‘Central to the organisation of the show was that work would be presented as it would have been when first made or acquired’

The president of the Royal Scottish Academy discusses Ages of Wonder: Scotland’s Art 1540 to Now, an ambitious and exciting exhibition that was more than three years in the making
Neha Choksi: ‘Transformations necessitate lost pasts and renewals of future hopes’

Through her latest work, a multichannel video installation entitled Faith in friction that features Choksi and her friends, the artist considers how the self is necessarily formed through engagement with others
Gianfranco Baruchello: Incidents of Lesser Account

Raven Row reopened with a major survey of Gianfranco Baruchello, a rambunctious and polymathic master of contemporary Italian art
Zoë Buckman: ‘One role of feminism is to address and reframe how we construct masculinity’

The London-born, New York-based artist known for incorporating highly personal motifs, such as embroidered underwear, in her work, discusses feminism and the role women play within her art
The East London Group and their Contemporaries

In the mid-20s, a group of largely working-class men came together in the East End of London and began to paint under the tutelage of John Cooper, finding fame for their realistic depiction of urban life. After 80 years in…
Antony Gormley: ‘Looking back at the paths you have taken is a really important exercise’

The artist talks about collaborating on a major new book about his career, the evolution of his work, and the impact of childhood on his practice
Vanessa Baird: You are Something Else

Vanessa Baird’s vivid, illustrative pastels depicting domestic chaos and drowning refugees make for an immersive experience in her new solo show, You Are Something Else, at Oslo’s Kunstnernes Hus. This and other new public commissions in Oslo indicate an artist…
Light in motion: Balla, Dorazio, Zappettini

The latest in Mazzoleni’s series of exhibitions devoted to 20th-century Italian art enacts a vivid circular dialogue between select works by Giacomo Balla, Piero Dorazio and Gianfranco Zappettini
Pamela Schilderman: ‘I really wanted people to think about what it is that makes a portrait’

What makes a portrait? What defines a person’s identity? These are questions at the core of Schilderman’s practice, and are questions she hopes to make her audience ask as well
Maria Alyokhina: ‘The government media calls us enemies of the people … but I haven’t met anyone on the street who hates us’

Political activist and Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina talks to Studio International at the Saatchi Gallery about fighting government propaganda and the support the group receives from fellow artists
Future Shock

An exhibition of works by a group of international artists, Future Shock looks at the profound impact of technological and social change on our present and our future
The Lives of the Artists: 50 years of Gilbert & George

To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the artists’ meeting, we publish Gilbert & George’s Magazine Sculpture, first displayed in a black-and-white, censored version in Studio International’s May 1970 edition
Dan Colen – Sweet Liberty

From glass whoopee cushions to a vast US flag to cartoon characters, Colen’s works, which use everything from chewing gum to cigarette butts and plastic bottles, are ambitious in scale, colourful, bombastic and highly varied
Impressionists in London, French Artists in Exile (1870-1904)

This exhibition lacks coherence and has little to say about the influence British artists had on the French impressionists, but is redeemed by paintings of the Thames, the highlight of which are eight works by Claude Monet