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Art in Art

The exhibition captures the ingenuity and playfulness involved in critical perception, with more than 50 artists basing works on historic artworks to form contemporary pictures
Becky Suss: ‘Putting domestic spaces into the gallery says something about what something is worth’

In her exhibition Homemaker at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, Philadelphia-based artist Becky Suss presents a group of paintings that reflect on interiors that include objects of personal significance
Rachel Maclean: Spite Your Face – Venice Biennale 2017

Rachel Maclean is representing Scotland at the Venice Biennale with her new film, a dark fairytale titled Spite Your Face. She talked to us before the biennale about the film, nationalism, fairytales, and how narratives can be so powerful that…
Zoë Paul: La Perma-Perla Kraal Emporium

‘We need to have a connection to the place we live in. It’s an extension of ourselves and it’s also a form of communication,’ says Zoë Paul, who invites people to join her at The Breeder gallery in Athens to…
NS Harsha: Charming Journey

Indian artist NS Harsha explains some of the works on show at this retrospective, and why, despite once working for a technology company, he prefers to stick to painting
Frances Stark: ‘I am desperately trying to connect outside of the art world’

Frances Stark, the Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist and writer, talks about her first opera, an adaptation of Mozart’s Magic Flute,and her desire to cross boundaries
Frieze New York 2017

The fair’s extensive list of programmes and projects, including a symposium on Latin American art, performances and films, celebrated diversity by including domesticated ‘others’, but failed to deal with the reality of the world outside the tent
Cornelia Parker

The new works of the often-brilliant Cornelia Parker act as a cautionary tale for artists who rush too hastily into the political
Tracey Emin and William Blake in Focus

While the similarities between the work of Tracey Emin and William Blake are tenuous, the latest instalment of Tate Liverpool’s In Focus series is interesting for other reasons
Berlin Gallery Weekend 2017

The biggest week of the year for Berlin’s contemporary art scene saw the opening of dozens of exhibitions. Here are some highlights and impressions
Peter Dreher: ‘In my pictures I underline the act of seeing’

German artist Peter Dreher recounts the trauma of childhood under the Nazi regime, his autonomy from the social ferment of the 60s, and confronting all the problems of art history through the sustained depiction of a single ordinary object
Oliver Griffin: ‘The very act of photography makes something interesting’

Oliver Griffin talks about drinking White Russians, his BMX bike, which he has named Susan, taking pictures of tyre marks, and why there is no such thing as a boring photograph
Joan Eardley: A Sense of Place

During her tragically short career, Joan Eardley concentrated on two contrasting areas of Scotland, which form the focus of this exhibition
James Bridle: ‘There is a huge demand to humanise the technological view of the world’

James Bridle talks about his current show at the Nome Gallery, Berlin, which centres around the self-driving car, technological agency and the relationship of humans to machines, and what we can learn from them
Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: Who am I to Judge, or, It Must be Something Delicious

Lust, sexual desire, sin and guilt are explored in a series of short claymation films supported by a new sculptural installation from the Swedish artist duo Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg
Lascaux IV: International Centre for Cave Art

With Lascaux IV, which contains a state-of-the-art simulation that brings to life the famous Lascaux cave and its Palaeolithic paintings, Norwegian architects Snøhetta and UK design partner Casson Mann have created an uplifting and educational temple to a vanished civilization
Art Brussels 2017

This 35th annual incarnation of Art Brussels was taglined ‘From Discovery to Rediscovery’. Here is a roundup of some of the rising talent that you may have missed
Nicky Hirst: Real Size

Nicky Hirst’s sculptures and installations quietly and skillfully explore the consonances and dissonances between object, context and materials. Funny, poetic, profound and wistful, the nine pieces – comprising mostly found objects, arranged or crafted in unlikely compositions – in this…
Eddie Martinez: ‘I just want people to interpret the work how they want’

Eddie Martinez talks about his latest show, Cowboy Town, at Timothy Taylor Gallery in London, the influence of US politics on artists, and why he looks at his work on his phone all night
John Latham: A World View and Speak: Tania Bruguera, Douglas Gordon, Laure Prouvost and Cally Spooner

Two concurrent exhibitions present a selective view of the career of renowned conceptualist John Latham along with work by four contemporary artists that reveals his profound influence today
Linda Kitson: [Mine is] ‘a reactive sort of work – it’s a reaction to, rather than … a preconceived idea …’

Linda Kitson talks about the works in Drawings and Projects, her current exhibition at House of Illustration in London, curated by Quentin Blake, being a war artist during the Falklands crisis, her inspiration and influences, and her latest work using…
Lygia Pape: A Multitude of Forms

The exhibition gives an insight into the development of modernism in Brazil, a country to which it was an extraneous mode of aesthetic language, developed under the influence of a somewhat slowly spreading wave of international modernism
Ruth Maclennan: ‘I realised that global warming was happening, and asked, how do I as an artist respond to that’

Visual artist Ruth Maclennan talks about what art can do in the face of climate change, her films of Arctic Russia and her latest film, shot in Scotland, From Time to Time at Sea
Queer British Art 1861-1967

To mark the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of sex between men, Tate Britain’s contribution to the plethora of queer exhibitions across the UK is a well-curated, well-balanced, aesthetically compelling tribute to sexualities and genders across the spectrum