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  • Laura Owens

    Laura Owens’s dynamic abstract paintings, accompanied her own quirky audio guide, ensure there is never a dull moment in this vibrant exhibition

  • Intrigue: James Ensor by Luc Tuymans

    Ensor’s star has remained dim in the UK. This small exhibition of his works, selected by fellow Belgian and lifelong admirer Tuymans, establishes Ensor as a major figure of his era

  • Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec: Rêveries Urbaines

    Dreaming of new ways to connect humans to cities, the Paris-based brothers have sidestepped architectural rhetoric to ignite imaginations with a handful of inspired, three-dimensional sketches

  • In Focus: Stanley Spencer – A Panorama of Life

    This bite-size exhibition offers a concise but surprisingly thorough overview of the artist’s life in, and love for, Cookham; his complex personal relationships; and his dedication to depicting everyday domestic life through a religious lens

  • Cheng Ran: Diary of a Madman

    For his first solo US exhibition, the Chinese artist presents his view of New York through a multimedia installation. It’s a fascinating insight into the city seen through the eyes of a stranger

  • Century: 100 Modern British Artists

    The UK may be struggling with its identity in a globalised world, but the artists of the past century knew exactly who we were, as seen in this joyous and playfully curated sweep through 20th-century British art

  • Donna Huanca: ‘Memory is perhaps the most permanent architecture’

    The Chicago-born artist discusses shedding skin, the idea of permanence, and being involved in Manifesta 11

  • South Africa: The Art of a Nation

    This exhibition is packed with fantastic items that tell stories of resilience and resistance. But they are not given the space they deserve

  • Thinking Pictures: Moscow Conceptual Art in the Dodge Collection

    As viewers, we witness Moscow conceptualism caught in a perpetual bind between the Romantic obscurity of the “inside” and the unattainable transparency of the “outside.” For us, then, Moscow conceptualism remains incurably Romantic

  • Piotr Lakomy: Room Temperature

    For his latest instalment at the south London gallery The Sunday Painter, the Polish artist poses questions about our relationship to the objects, architecture and nature that surround us

  • Leah Raintree – Another Land: After Noguchi

    This modest exhibition consists of 10 photographs by Raintree of the work of Isamu Noguchi. Manipulating light and shadow, she transmutes his predominantly stone sculptures into otherworldly pitted lunar landscapes, Martian horizons and comets nestled within dustclouds

  • Jean Tinguely: Machine Spectacle

    From kinetic sculptures to ‘do-it-yourself machines’ and scorched animal skulls to self-destructing golden phalluses, Tinguely courted controversy and spun spectacle throughout his life. Here, the artist who fought against being ‘museumised’ is subjected to, well, just that

  • Beyond Caravaggio

    The shadowy and sensuous world of Caravaggio was too tempting for contemporaries to ignore. But as this exhibition demonstrates, his were large boots to fill

  • Olga Chernysheva: Vague Accent

    This series of drawings depicting urban life in New York was made while Chernysheva was on a month-long visit from Moscow, and marks the first time she has explored a subject outside her home country

  • Amalia Ulman: ‘I learn things from the performances that I wouldn’t have otherwise’

    Having presented her fictionalised personas on her Instagram account and at the Tate Modern, the artist goes back to the gallery space to present a new installation that continues her ongoing performance, Privilege  

  • Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh: Impressions of Landscape

    A trail-blazing artist, largely lost from sight, is brought back into the limelight in this excellent exhibition, full of sunsets, poppies and crashing waves

  • Paul Feiler

    Examples of the signature works that occupied Feiler from the 1970s are on show at the Jessica Carlisle gallery, and are also to be seen alongside other modernist works at House of the Nobleman

  • The Lumen Prize Awards 2016

    In its fifth year, this leading global prize for digital art has really hit its stride, with a greater diversity and richness of technology and themes deployed to artful ends than ever before

  • Jamian Juliano-Villani: The World’s Greatest Planet on Earth

    For her first solo public exhibition outside the US, the artist shows a sculptural installation and six new large-scale paintings, which are like painted diaries of her visual influences

  • Lucia Nogueira

    As this selection of work shows, the sculptures and installations of the Brazilian artist, made from found or secondhand objects, are full of contradictions

  • Bedwyr Williams: The Gulch

    This is a disorienting exploratory playground for the imagination, a procession of surreal scenarios, theatrical set-pieces and interactive enticements that lures visitors down the less-travelled B roads of human behaviour

  • Wendy Stavrianos: ‘I have always aimed for my work to be more akin to visual poetry’

    The artist talks about her concern with environmental degradation and mass migration, and her aim to share her sadness and memories in her latest works

  • Picasso Portraits

    Picasso’s life and art were shaped by friends, family and lovers, and as this exhibition demonstrates, his portraits were just as varied as his relationships

  • Louise Bourgeois: Turning Inwards

    The opening room at Hauser & Wirth Somerset has been transformed into a spider’s lair, a fitting scene to start this exhibition of late etchings by Louise Bourgeois, seen here together for the first time