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Susannah Stark: ‘I like to create something that bears the trace of multiple worlds’

The artists talks about cultural memories, Spolia, swamps and Icelandic necropants
Gerasimos Floratos: Big Town

Gerasimos Floratos’s expressive paintings combine shapes and colour from his daily life in New York City, communicating his thoughts and interactions through characters painted in liquid colour
Hugo McCloud: ‘I respect the beauty in the things that are overlooked’

The emerging artist Hugo McCloud, whose layered abstract paintings concentrate on process and material, talks about his second solo show in New York
Carl Andre: Sculpture As Place, 1958-2010

This tribute to the 20th-century US artist includes sculptures, poems, photographs and works on paper. The impression is of a single-path doggedly followed, but, for all that, his works are hard to ignore
Caragh Thuring: ‘It’s a sort of standoff – how am I going to deal with this?’

The Brussels-born artist discusses reconstructing old paintings as tapestries to create new work, why she uses figures from adverts, and her love of bricks
Australia’s Impressionists

This exhibition highlights the paintings of four artists working at a crucial turning point in Australian history
Mette Edvardsen: ‘If forgetting is important, then so is remembering’

The dancer, choreographer and performer talks about memorising books and then retelling them, and exploring the possibilities and limits of language
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry

Taking over two floors of the Met Breuer, this stunning career retrospective insinuates the African American narrative into the received history of art through a heroic investigation into the metaphorical, cultural and aesthetic implications of extreme blackness
Painters’ Painters

There is a quiet revolution happening in paint. But, paradoxically, Painters’ Painters seems out to prove otherwise
Kong Ning: ‘Being a witness mentally scarred me’

Multidisciplinary artist and environmental activist Kong Ning is based in Beijing. Born in Heilongjiang province in 1958, she studied law, but, deeply disturbed by the inequities of China’s judicial system and a fierce opponent of the death penalty, she decided…
Frank Stella: The Kenneth Tyler Print Collection

Focusing on the rich seam of Stella’s prints, this show gives an insight into the remarkable collaboration between Stella and Tyler, in which anything was possible
Paul de Monchaux: Ten Columns

In only his second solo show, the 82-year-old artist explores the potential of the column as a site for improvisation and movement
Peggy Franck: With no hands. Like a sea

For her first exhibition at Arcade gallery in London, Peggy Franck has installed her paintings, photography and printed carpets, creating a layered installation like a stage set
George Ridgway: interview

George Ridgway graduated last year from the Glasgow School of Art. His work traverses painting and installation with an intuitive ease as he subtly translates music, movement and the forces of the natural world into paint
Kate Fahey: interview

Kate Fahey is concerned with slowing down how we interact with images. In the age of Google, where our consumption of the visual divorces us from context and meaning, Fahey seeks to reappropriate photographs that have become lost or degraded…
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016

Since 1949 New Contemporaries has hand-picked graduate and emerging artists to present them to the public as the rising stars of the art world. Studio International visited the touring exhibition on its opening night at the Institute of Contemporary Arts…
Seungjo Jeong: interview

South Korean artist Seungjo Jeong creates pared-back canvases that explore the relationship between viewer and artist through the almost abstract evocation of objects
Robert Rauschenberg

This exhibition, the first full-scale retrospective of Rauschenberg’s work since his death in 2008, takes us on a tour of a singly irrepressible spirit whose work knew no boundaries
Roman Ondák: The Source of Art is in the Life of a People

In a show lasting 100 days and symbolising 100 years, the celebrated conceptual artist Roman Ondák explores ideas around history and the passage of time, as well as revealing hidden messages
John Currin

In five new works at Sadie Coles HQ, the controversial American painter clothes the history of art in vulgarity
Art Basel in Miami Beach 2016

Palpable relief that the sky was not falling in freed this year’s 78,000 fairgoers to act out Tom McKinley’s masterful triptych titled Complex Human Desires
Fabienne Verdier: ‘I am an intrepid woman, a bit of a rebel maybe’

Verdier explains her unique method of vertical painting, using a handmade brush with a large reserve of paint, capable of expressing her seemingly unstoppable flow of energy
Roger Hiorns – interview: ‘It isn’t enough to put an artwork in the world. You have to think about redesigning the world around the artwork’

Roger Hiorns explains his methods of exploration and excavation, and why he believes art is not so much about making objects as about designing behaviour
Jason Martin

The new minimalism at which Martin has arrived is obvious in the oil paintings on show here, and his series of silver cast works takes his fascination with the properties of accumulated paint and its sculptural potential to a new…