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  • Strange Worlds: Visions of Angela Carter

    To mark the 25th anniversary of Carter’s death, this exhibition brings together works that influenced the writer and works inspired by her, creating a visceral, violent and, at times, unpalatable celebration of magic realism and fairyland pornography

  • Sergei Eisenstein: Drawings, 1931-1948

    Known as a film-maker, Eisenstein also excelled at drawing. This exhibition presents a rare collection of his sexually explicit drawings that have never before been shown publicly

  • Yves Klein

    The alchemical French artist’s first UK retrospective in two decades reaffirms the cosmic wonder of his oeuvre

  • Bonnard: En toute intimité

    This is an exhibition focusing on intimacy, which conjures just that in its thorough, yet tender, exploration of the people, objects and places close to the artist’s heart

  • The founding of The Studio

    In April 1893 a new art magazine entitled The Studio appeared in British newsagents. Subtitled an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art and costing sixpence, it rapidly established itself as one of the most enduring and successful art periodicals…

  • Manifesto (by Julian Rosefeldt with Cate Blanchett)

    This superb cinematic production, in which Cate Blanchett brilliantly conjures 13 varying personas, takes us on a rapid tour through 20th-century avant-garde culture

  • 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

  • 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

  • Australia’s Impressionists

    This exhibition highlights the paintings of four artists working at a crucial turning point in Australian history

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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…

  • Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch: Love, Loss, and the Cycle of Life

    Despite the vast differences in the style and intention of their work, this exhibition attempts to show how Munch’s imagery entered Johns’s psyche and then lay dormant for years, only to resurface transformed

  • City Sculpture Projects 1972

    Two of the 14 original sculptures are accompanied by other work from that time, alongside maquettes and models, and documentation from a special edition of Studio International produced to accompany the 1972 project

  • Anselm Kiefer: Walhalla

    Anselm Kiefer weaves myth and the modern era into a characteristically apocalyptic show. But is it all doom and gloom?

  • Franciszka Themerson: Lines and Thoughts

    This exhibition reveals Themerson’s ability to conjure life and emotion out of a single line in her drawings, or convey a whole interior landscape through her rich, densely worked paintings

  • Pat Steir

    This dramatic selection of the American artist’s painting from 1990-2011 marks her first London show for 26 years