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  • Georg Baselitz: Wir fahren aus (We’re off)

    This major exhibition, the artists first major solo show at White Cube, includes new large-scale paintings, sculpture and works on paper

  • Frieze New York 2016

    There were dogs, a screaming blow-up baby and a real donkey, but there were also museum-quality installations and small joys to be had at the New York art fair’s fifth incarnation

  • William Heath Robinson’s Life of Line

    With a wit all of his own Heath Robinson captured everything from the sublime to the ridiculous, and in doing so became one of the most versatile illustrators of the 20th century

  • From the Collection: 1960-1969

    From a shiny Jaguar E-Type, explosions of colour and a trip through a more muted palette, MoMA has served up the 60s as a tasty new dish, charting the era’s subversive investigations into traditional form, media and design

  • Michael Benson: ‘Science is about trying to increase that zone of what we know. Art has a much freer hand. It can leap far ahead of science’

    Benson fuses art and science to conjure spectacular images from raw data collected by Nasa and ESA. Here he talks about science fiction, climate change and his exhibition at London’s Natural History Museum

  • Channa Horwitz

    Controlled but creative, formulaic but somehow free, hypnotic in their undulation and unique in their variation, the graph-paper paintings of the late Californian artist demonstrate the infinite possibilities of line and colour

  • Glasgow International 2016

    The biennial festival returns for its seventh edition with more than 220 contemporary artists from all over the world. This ambitious collection includes new works, site-specific commissions and new venues throughout the city

  • Spencer Finch: The Opposite of Blindness

    In his third solo exhibition at the Lisson Gallery, Finch attempts to take visitors beyond the limits of natural vision and into a parallel reality occupied by insects, GPS equipment and Martian light

  • Carambolages

    Paris is, as ever, a cauldron of art, but one breakout exhibition, expertly curated to challenge the old rules of staging, stirs the imagination, quickens the eye and gladdens the soul

  • Michael Dean: Sic Glyphs

    Despite the urban construction materials, the steel bars and concrete slabs, there is a strong sense that the viewer must ‘read’ Michael Dean’s sculptures in order to make sense of them

  • Richard Sides: Invisible World

    The artist’s latest exhibition confirms his confidence and ability to transform space and boundaries as he leads the visitor from the gallery to a nightclub, to mysterious doors and an odd sitting room

  • Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation and Change

    The exhibition succeeds in introducing the complicated story of Picasso’s simultaneous exploration of cubism and classicism, but more could have been done to explore his continuing fascination with the latter after the first world war ended

  • In the Age of Giorgione

    This exhibition endeavours to pin down a phantom of art history, a man whose paintings are so elusive that his influence is almost the stuff of myth

  • Secret Surface: Where Meaning Materialises

    Prepare for a sensory bombardment in this sprawling exhibition, which examines the concept of surface, moving from an idea of the universe as a protective surface around us to examining notions of permanence, superficiality and digital culture

  • The Met Breuer

    Marcel Breuer’s shuttered brutalist icon, longtime home of the Whitney, reopens as the Met Breuer to showcase the Metropolitan Museum’s controversial foray into Contemporary Art. Has the wait been worthwhile?

  • Stephen Shore: Retrospective

    At 17, Shore was already photographing Andy Warhol and his collaborators. This comprehensive exhibition, which traces Shore’s career from the 60s on, shows the skill with which he captures everyday scenes and mundane objects, and his continuing innovation

  • Becky Beasley: Lake Erie from the Northwest

    The British artist’s new solo exhibition reflects her unwavering interest in physical and non-physical perspective, while simultaneously inviting us to see what it’s like inside her mind, her heart and possibly her living room

  • Michelle Stuart: Theatre of Memory – Photographic Works

    For Stuart, each photograph matters in such a way that when we look at one or many of them, we sense a connection to some eternal, primeval truth

  • Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection – from Shōhaku and Rosanjin to Anselm Kiefer

    Artist Takashi Murakami has built up a vast collection centred around contemporary art, but also including old Japanese artefacts, pottery, calligraphy and European antiques. For the first time, this exhibition brings some of it to the public view

  • Barry Flanagan Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

    Marking the 50th anniversary of Flanagan’s first solo show, this exhibition affords visitors a glimpse into the huge range of his work – work that has influenced a generation

  • Verónica Losantos: Screen Memories

    To recreate memories of a father she hasn’t seen since she was a 12-year-old child, the artist turned to photography. Her evocative, grainy images create a narrative that leaves the viewer to guess how much is true and how much…

  • Das Institut

    Creative duo Kerstin Brätsch and Adele Röder’s transformative installation at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery reflects on the meaning of collaboration, language and authorship in contemporary art

  • Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better

    The Swiss duo play with viewers’ habits and expectations, but they demand to be taken seriously at this game

  • Armory Week 2016

    There was a feeling this year of tectonic shift, with black the current chic, and all things African American now as much a part of the American Experience as the cowboy and the burger. And what was truly new was…