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Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West

This exhibition considers abstract expressionism through its Asian-American practitioners, with a focus on Hawaii’s artists, as it brings them together with their US counterparts, such as Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock
Stan Douglas: ‘A re-enactment is an event that becomes processed in memory’

Photographer and film artist Stan Douglas talks about his new works, which extend his interest in historical moments of rupture to the 2011 London riots
Tove Jansson (1914-2001)

Studio International visited the Dulwich Picture Gallery to view the Finnish artist Tove Jansson’s first retrospective exhibition in the UK. She is well-known as the creator of the Moomins, but as this major retrospective makes clear, Jansson’s work encompasses many…
Jean Prouvé: Architecte des Jours Meilleurs (Architect of Better Days)

The French architect Jean Prouvé was a radical modernist whose graceful prefab buildings used cutting-edge techniques to further his socially progressive ideals. In an era of housing shortages and mass migration, his work is powerfully relevant – as this extraordinary…
Alina Szapocznikow: Human Landscapes

A superlative exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield unpacks the fleshly and sticky oeuvre of forgotten postwar great Alina Szapocznikow
Grace Weir: ‘I often think through the camera’

In Irish film artist Grace Weir’s latest exhibition, Unfolded, past and present, the real and representational repeatedly elide. Here, Weir talks about her work and about challenging notions of fixity in art, physics and philosophy
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into the Future

This first large-scale British retrospective of work by the US-based Russian installation artists Ilya Kabakov and his wife, Emilia, is powerful, vividly varied and thought-provoking
Paula Rego: The Boy Who Loved the Sea and Other Stories

Consummate storyteller Paula Rego brings her cast of mermaids and misfits to a town that seems forged from her own imagination
Juno Calypso: ‘Male critics don’t think women are funny, they don’t think women are capable of irony. They just think that women are silly and self-destructive’

London-based photographer Juno Calypso talks about femininity and disappointment in a man’s world
Zarah Hussain: ‘I don’t think something that’s spiritual precludes the use of technology’

Zarah Hussain (b1980, Cheshire, UK) places her work at “the intersection of science and spirituality”. She combines a lifelong fascination with – and extensive training in – hand-drawn Islamic geometry with the latest digital software to create hypnotic, looping animations…
Interview | Encinitas, California
Nicolás Herrera: Enchanted Nature – Deforestation and the Environment

Enchanted Nature: Deforestation and the Environment, on show in Beijing, is an exhibition of 61 drawings and 12 large-scale paintings by Latin-American artist Nicolás Herrera
Kelly Richardson: The Weather Makers

The barren, dystopian landscapes of Kelly Richardson’s audiovisual installations are hypnotically beautiful, recalling sci-fi and Romanticism, and issuing a subtle call to arms over the catastrophic effects of climate change
Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites

This wishy-washy exhibition is a lesson in tenuous connections
Yuri Pattison: context, collapse

In the first exhibition at mother’s tankstation project’s new London gallery, Yuri Pattison’s context, collapse examines the world in which the office is everywhere and work transcends life
Julie Montgarrett: ‘I have always gravitated to the seductive character and movement of cloth and thread’

Australian artist Julie Montgarrett uses her work to explore the continent’s problematic colonial past, employing textiles and stitching to tease out the selective histories and mythologies of settler narratives
David Hartt: In the forest

In his filmic and photographic portraits of architect Moshe Safdie’s abandoned 1968 housing project Habitat Puerto Rico, David Hartt explores the relationship between site, ideology and environment, at a poignant moment for a country currently struggling with environmental and economic…
Soutine’s Portraits: Cooks, Waiters and Bellboys

Chaïm Soutine, who inspired many of the 20th century’s greatest painters, brought the strange and macabre to Paris’s most elegant haunts
Urania (Οὐρανία)
Terpsichore (Τερψιχόρη)
Thalia (Θάλεια)
Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν)
Polyhymnia (Πολυύμνια)
Mnemosyne (Μνημοσύνη)