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  • Zakkir Hussain and Rakhi Peswani

    Two solo exhibitions featuring alumni from India’s premier art institute in Baroda throw up interesting questions about violence, self and the processes of survival

  • Liberties

    This exhibition of contemporary artworks by more than 20 women artists reflects the changes in art practice in the 40 years since the Sex Discrimination Act was introduced in the UK

  • The Israel National Museum

    After 17 years of statehood Israel at last boasts a national museum. When one compares nearby countries, Greece for instance, where there are no national museums devoted to European painting, let alone modern art, it is no mean achievement. In…

  • Dineo Seshee Bopape: slow -co- ruption

    For the artist’s first UK solo exhibition, she combines experimental video works and sculptural installations of found objects in order to explore sociopolitical notions of narration, memory and representation

  • Jackson Pollock’s Mural: Energy Made Visible

    Mural, Pollock’s largest-ever painting, has been credited with breaking the ice for abstract expressionism. This exhibition explores the context in which it was produced and its effect on the contemporary art world

  • Tadeusz Kantor: Inbetween Structures

    As two exhibitions celebrate the centenary of the birth of Polish artist and theatre director Tadeusz Kantor, Richard Demarco, who first brought him to Britain and has ensured his legacy continues, talks about his work

  • Roman Signer: Installations

    From kayaks filled with scotch to empty boots on a ladder, Signer has a lightness of touch and mischief that almost tips into menace. His art is lighthearted, but it is also thought-provoking and atmospheric while appearing almost throwaway

  • Construction Industry: Contemporary Assemblage, Construction and Relief

    This group exhibition makes a strong case that assemblage – as an art form – is still influential and prevalent among today’s contemporary artists

  • Derek Michael Besant: ‘A stitching together of each person’s voice allows a glimpse into the psychology of living in Edinburgh’

    The artist talks about his project, which involved 50 strangers from Scotland’s capital city sending him photos of themselves and answering questions he posed. He explains how he played with the visuals and text to explore how people see things

  • My Dear BB … The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925-1959

    The 34-year correspondence between two legends of the Anglo-American art world evokes the life and times of the 20th-century cultural establishment

  • Thomas Ruff: Nature Morte

    The German photographer known for his forward thinking and experimentation has gone back in time for his latest show, examining the negative, considering it for itself rather than seeing it as a means to an end

  • Facing History: Contemporary Portraiture

    This show looks at how contemporary artists are influenced by the past as they seek to represent their present, and questions the nature of what a portrait depicts

  • Nathan Coley: ‘I’m the travelling storyteller who’s come to town for the summer’

    Nathan Coley tells the stories behind his two text-light sculptures in the Bruges Triennial, peeling back the layers and exploring the meanings. Ultimately, he is happy that he still doesn’t know the definitive answer himself

  • Memu Meadows

    Research into dwellings of the future is under way in Hokkaido, the most northerly island in Japan, where the harsh winter climate can see temperatures fall to below -30C

  • Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale 2015

    Japan’s contemporary art festival, the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, despite being held in a region with just 74,000 residents, attracts more than 400,000 visitors, who come from around the world to experience artworks dotted over a vast area of land

  • Lee Ufan

    This solo exhibition is made up of two bodies of work first conceived near the start of Lee’s career, in the late 60s

  • The boys the girls and the political

    The Lisson Gallery’s summer show takes a linguistic turn while tapping into the trends of the networked age. Studio International talked to its curators, Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot, and discovered the meaning of the ‘metamodern’

  • Yoshihito Mizuuchi: ‘Eating noodle soup makes a sound, but it’s also like a sculpture’

    The process of making a sculpture is a performance art in itself, says the Japanese artist, who explains how he works with an audience, experimenting with found materials, chance and outcome

  • Art in Dialogue: Duccio | Caro

    Bringing together a medieval Sienese altarpiece fragment and a late-20th-century abstract sculpture, despite their being separated by more than 700 years, opens up a lively dialogue that sheds new light on both works

  • Raed Yassin: Kissing Amnesia

    Lebanese artist and musician Raed Yassin displays his magnetic, humorous and moving works in the ever-seductive surroundings of Lord Leighton’s Orientalist fantasy in London’s Holland Park

  • The Amazing World of MC Escher

    MC Escher was long ignored by galleries and dismissed by critics, yet there is arguably no modern artist who has profoundly influenced so many different fields, from cinema to graphic design, mathematics to video games

  • Yto Barrada: ‘This whole project started with the sale of a dinosaur’

    The artist discusses her hometown of Tangier, palaeontology, her concerns with trade and smuggling, and the difficulties of opening a cinema when you have no previous experience

  • Royal Scottish Academy Metzstein Architecture Discourse: Glenn Murcutt

    Architect Glenn Murcutt, winner of many international awards, presented an inspiring discourse on his philosophy, which has pioneered a new relationship between architecture and landscape in his native Australia

  • Caro in Yorkshire

    This unmissable two-venue retrospective of Anthony Caro’s work encompasses everything from his vast steel sculptures of the 1960s to his table pieces, to his jewellery, ending with his final works