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  • Ida Applebroog: Mercy Hospital

    These drawings from the forgotten sketchbooks of the well-known feminist artist Ida Applebroog offer an intimate insight into her struggle with depression during a six-week stay at Mercy Hospital in 1969

  • Afruz Amighi: ‘I wanted to make a procession of characters that embodied both good and bad’

    In No More Disguise, Afruz Amighi’s first show of drawings, the New York-based artist discusses the creative impulse she experienced following the 2016 US election, and the role of American history in her most personal work to date

  • Willow Hai: ‘The jade burial suit is the single most important object in the show – and the best in China’

    Willow Hai, director of the China Institute in New York, talks about its current show, Dreams of the Kings, a spectacular collection of treasures from the Han dynasty, including possibly the earliest dated jade burial suit in existence

  • Tom Burr: Surplus of Myself

    Running parallel to Münster’s Skulptur Projekte, notions of private and public are unsettled in this playful post-minimal exhibition of new works by American artist Tom Burr

  • Learning from Athens: Documenta 14 (Part two, Kassel)

    Returned to its traditional home in central Germany, Documenta 14 abounds with intelligent, well-curated art by an often obscure array of international practitioners. But does it live up to its valiant political aims?

  • A Handful of Dust: Photography after Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp

    A haunting exhibition in which dust plays a divine agent of death

  • George Drivas: Laboratory of Dilemmas – Venice Biennale 2017

    For the 57th Venice Biennale, Greek artist George Drivas offers his customary blend of architecture and film in a narrative video installation that explores the resonances between an ancient story by Aeschylus, involving a group of women seeking asylum, and…

  • Howard Hodgkin: Painting India

    Radiating the heat and light of India, and expressing the artist’s love for the South Asian country, this vibrant exhibition brings Hodgkin’s “somewhere else” to the north of England

  • Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2017

    The RA’s annual open submission exhibition presents a shifting ‘kaleidoscope’ of contemporary art – but what does it show us about art now?

  • Masterpiece Fair 2017

    The fair is a theatrical display of extravagance, peppered with instantly recognisable works by big names, which it is a joy to stumble across. But there are also rarer treasures, from a previously unseen Andy Warhol sketch to a recently…

  • Henri Scars Struck: ‘It was interesting for me to have a physical space to represent something that is completely abstract’

    Henri Scars Struck, the French music composer known for his meditative sonic experiences, discusses his soundscape for the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas, which charts the journey of a soul

  • Isaac Julien: ‘I dream a world’ Looking for Langston

    A new exhibition focusing on the Isaac Julien’s hugely significant 1989 film delves into what made this work such a landmark in African-American and queer studies, through a presentation of newly realised photographic works and rare archival material

  • Alice Neel, Uptown

    With an uncompromising certainty of vision, Alice Neel paints individuals, capturing not only their physical likeness and inner character, but also the zeitgeist

  • Serendipity Symposium 2017

    Is serendipity entirely human – or human-driven – or can researchers into artificial intelligence design it into computer programs? Leading “serendiptologists” joined Jasia Reichardt, curator of the ICA’s iconic 1968 Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition, to debate the issue

  • Jodie Carey: ‘I like my works to be imbued with a silence and a stillness’

    Jodie Carey talks about her developing practice, the impact of motherhood, her concerns with mortality and the fragility of human life, and her redefinition of the monumental

  • Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017

    With artificial environments, app-led innovations and a preponderance of site-specific video art, the fifth edition of this 10-yearly project broadens out ideas of public sculpture as never before

  • Gregory Crewdson: ‘I wanted the photographs to feel like a suburban window, to give a sense that the viewer is looking into a world’

    American photographer Gregory Crewdson talks about loneliness and connection in his work and, in particular, about Cathedral of the Pines, his current exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery in London that sprang from a difficult time in his life

  • Fahrelnissa Zeid

    This exhibition tells the story of the irrepressible spirit of a true artistic visionary who has been largely forgotten by art history. Tate Modern hopes to bring Fahrelnissa Zeid’s name to the lips of contemporary art-goers once more

  • Ailbhe Ní Bhriain: Reports to an Academy

    In her latest film, Cork-based artist Ailbhe Ní Bhriain uses the perpetual ebb and flow of water and clouds to dissolve the physical integrity of highly constructed cultural institutions

  • Richard Smith: Work of Five Decades

    This is the first posthumous exhibition of Richard Smith, who died last year, and whose work straddled pop and abstract art

  • 31 Women

    Drawing on Peggy Guggenheim’s 1943 exhibition of the same name, 31 Women is a thoroughly relevant and equally captivating and surprising contemporary curation, opening dialogues across time and space

  • Balenciaga: Shaping fashion

    The V&A presents an exhibition exploring the abstract and architectural shapes of Cristóbal Balenciaga’s work in the 1950s and 60s, drawing out connections between his legacy and contemporary fashion designers

  • Grayson Perry: The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!

    This exhibition delivers everything you would expect from the colourful Grayson Perry, but it is also a reminder that he is as much a part of the establishment as he is an original thinker

  • La Seine Musicale, Paris

    Shigeru Ban has landed an ocean liner of a music venue at Paris’s westernmost edge. With two auditoria and a huge amount of public space, it is hoped the €170m building will enrich the city’s music scene and the fortunes…