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  • Geta Brătescu: The Studio – A Tireless, Ongoing Space

    Camden Arts Centre’s exhibition provides an overview of Geta Brătescu’s artistic career and including drawing, collage, video, sculpture and photography

  • Learning from Athens: Documenta 14 (Part one, Athens)

    Despite multiple curatorial concepts, the first part of Documenta 14 is dominated by the decision to hold it in Athens. Beyond the political decisions and curatorial rhetoric, the exhibition is an ambitious and extensive city-wide production that can be read…

  • Giacometti

    Alberto Giacometti’s scrawny figures pulse with kinetic energy. This new retrospective at Tate Modern shows his versatility, celebrating his passion for materials other than the bronzes for which he is famed, giving a greater breadth and depth to the understanding…

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Heywood and Condie: Head Land

    Tony Heywood and Alison Condie’s ode to Hastings attempts to combine psychedelic sculpture with plants, but the jarring mixture of the natural and the artificial fails to capture the essence of this crazy coastal town

  • David Hepher – Grain of Concrete

    Unusually for a landscape artist, David Hepher has for 40 years focused almost exclusively on the tower blocks of south London. In this retrospective, his large-scale triptychs evoke an almost elegiac sense of time and place

  • The Computer and Music: Coordinate Expansion

    Cybernetic Serendipity: the computer and the arts, Studio International Special Issue, 1968

  • Constable and Brighton

    A pivotal period of John Constable’s life was spent in Brighton, where he would repeat three favourite walks, making sequential sketches, often intended as visual notes for larger paintings, but many quite exquisite as works in their own right

  • From Selfie to Self-Expression

    Advertised as the world’s first exhibition dedicated to the history of the selfie, From Selfie to Self Expression explores our relationship – healthy or otherwise – with our own image

  • Maeve Brennan: The Drift

    Premiering at the Chisenhale Gallery, Maeve Brennan’s film The Drift (2017) depicts restorative labour as the means to reconstruct Lebanon’s war-torn past and build a new future

  • Naeem Mohaiemen: It is Not Necessary to Understand Everything

    Tensta Konsthall is showing Bangladeshi artist Naeem Mohaiemen’s 2011 film, United Red Army, about the hijacking of a Japanese Airlines flight in 1977, along with two related vitrine displays