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  • Modigliani

    This extraordinary retrospective unites Modigliani’s portraits and sculpture with the largest collection of his nude paintings ever shown together in the UK, as well as allowing visitors a virtual reality tour of the artist’s Paris studio

  • Carmen Herrera

    Herrera’s abstract, geometric paintings pulse with life in this solo show. She was discovered late – she sold her first painting in 2004, at the age of 89 – and her work has a concentrated intensity that speaks of many…

  • Louisa Fairclough: A Song Cycle for the Ruins of a Psychiatric Unit

    At the Danielle Arnaud gallery in London, Louisa Fairclough’s exhibition A Song Cycle for the Ruins of a Psychiatric Unit uses a derelict mental hospital as metaphor for the turmoil of psychological trauma

  • Gianfranco Baruchello: Incidents of Lesser Account

    Raven Row reopened with a major survey of Gianfranco Baruchello, a rambunctious and polymathic master of contemporary Italian art

  • The East London Group and their Contemporaries

    In the mid-20s, a group of largely working-class men came together in the East End of London and began to paint under the tutelage of John Cooper, finding fame for their realistic depiction of urban life. After 80 years in…

  • Vanessa Baird: You are Something Else

    Vanessa Baird’s vivid, illustrative pastels depicting domestic chaos and drowning refugees make for an immersive experience in her new solo show, You Are Something Else, at Oslo’s Kunstnernes Hus. This and other new public commissions in Oslo indicate an artist…

  • Light in motion: Balla, Dorazio, Zappettini

    The latest in Mazzoleni’s series of exhibitions devoted to 20th-century Italian art enacts a vivid circular dialogue between select works by Giacomo Balla, Piero Dorazio and Gianfranco Zappettini

  • Future Shock

    An exhibition of works by a group of international artists, Future Shock looks at the profound impact of technological and social change on our present and our future

  • The Lives of the Artists: 50 years of Gilbert & George

    To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the artists’ meeting, we publish Gilbert & George’s Magazine Sculpture, first displayed in a black-and-white, censored version in Studio International’s May 1970 edition

  • Dan Colen – Sweet Liberty

    From glass whoopee cushions to a vast US flag to cartoon characters, Colen’s works, which use everything from chewing gum to cigarette butts and plastic bottles, are ambitious in scale, colourful, bombastic and highly varied

  • Impressionists in London, French Artists in Exile (1870-1904)

    This exhibition lacks coherence and has little to say about the influence British artists had on the French impressionists, but is redeemed by paintings of the Thames, the highlight of which are eight works by Claude Monet

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Interview | Encinitas, California

  • 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

  • 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

  • Terpsichore (Τερψιχόρη)