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  • Charles II: Art and Power

    The Royal Collection’s exploration of the Merrie Monarch is a historical exhibition par excellence, presenting the king as a gateway to the art, culture and advances of the Restoration

  • Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (UABB) 2017: Cities, Grow in Difference

    This biennale is determined to take account of residents, focusing on micro-housing and smaller residential complexes and involving community as much as architecture

  • Torbjørn Rødland: Back in Touch

    Secrets lurk in Rødland’s photographs, but in chasing the thrill of the secret, his images fall short of the desired effect

  • John Piper

    A lopsided retrospective reveals an artist who thrived best when he was commissioned or working in collaboration

  • Sriwhana Spong: a hook but no fish

    Spong explores the invented language of Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th-century mystic. Over the Pump House Gallery’s four storeys, boundaries of sense are undone and remade – drawing the viewer into a history that cuts through the present

  • Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection

    A museum committed to the art of the American South presents an exhibition that highlights the contributions of postwar and contemporary African-American artists in order to assert their place within mainstream modernist narratives

  • Peter Doig

    The Scottish painter’s latest works are as beautiful as ever, but exhibit a newfound looseness, playfulness and sense of violence

  • Sofia Stevi: Turning forty winks into a decade

    Greek artist Sofia Stevi’s paintings ooze confidence, sensuality and an improvisational spontaneity. Yet her flair and inventiveness with a paintbrush are something of a recent discovery – to Stevi as well as to the rest of us

  • From Life

    This exhibition sets out to explore the significance of life drawing and the life class in art practice, but the real joy of drawing is largely overlooked

  • Technology and Art 10: LINGUISTICS AND TOYS AT THE ICA

    “Increasing numbers of mathematicians and of engineers have joined them [poets, philologists and philosophers], attracted by technical problems, formerly ignored or considered trivial… Play Orbit…`toys, games and playables by people who are not professionally involved with the design of playthings,…

  • From Ear to Ear to Eye: Sounds and Stories From Across the Arab World

    This powerful show fuses art and music in an attempt to open ears and eyes to life in the Arab world

  • Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by Jean Nouvel

    Jean Nouvel has conceived a masterful new structure for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, at once utterly modern in its technical and environmental specifications, but beautifully attuned to the ancient Arabic sense of place, and affinities with geometry and astronomy

  • Cybernetic Serendipity 50th Anniversary

    The Studio International special issue Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts was first published in July 1968 to accompany the ICA exhibition of the same name curated by Jasia Reichardt. Both the publication and the exhibition are now legendary

  • Museum Gift of the Year: The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine

    As 2017 Museum Gift of the Year, Studio International has chosen the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine, a magnificent donation by Dr Alice Kandell of more than 200 precious Buddhist artefacts to the Arthur M Sackler Gallery in Washington DC

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  • Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test

    Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! joins an effort by progressive cultural institutions to mark the centenary of the October Revolution, an event that shook the world

  • Music From The Balconies – Ed Ruscha and Los Angeles

    Moving to Los Angeles at 19, having grown up in Oklahoma City, Ed Ruscha was always an outsider. His detached perspective is a quality that has remained in his work – which would become so concerned with the city –…

  • Rose Wylie: Quack Quack

    The octogenarian painter’s enormous, unpredictable canvases are by turns joyful and fearsome, introvert and extrovert, ordered and chaotic

  • Art Basel Miami Beach 2017

    It was all systems go – quality art, media buzz, more space, more work – but with a lower attendance and many big collector names absent, America’s premier art fair had a last hurrah undertow

  • Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting

    This is a rich and expansive retrospective of Schneemann’s work over the past six decades

  • 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