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  • Reflections on the Self: From Dürer to Struth

    This exhibition explores the genre of the self-portrait, looking at the ways in which more than 50 artists from the 1400s onwards have sought to visualise the self

  • ART15: London’s Global Art Fair

    Galleries from 40 countries came together at this third edition of the London fair to celebrate art from every corner of the globe

  • Tracey Emin | Egon Schiele: Where I Want to Go

    In this exhibition, in which Tracey Emin juxtaposes her works with those of her teenage idol Egon Schiele, she explores love, loneliness and vulnerability

  • Max Mara Art Prize for Women: Corin Sworn

    Corin Sworn, the fifth winner of the biannual Max Mara Art Prize for Women, has taken the 16th-century Italian commedia dell’arte as the theme for her exhibition about mistaken identity

  • Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971

    The message of Yoko Ono’s art has always been world peace. In her performances, installations and books, she invites the audience’s active involvement to make them understand her art not only on an intellectual, but also a visceral level

  • Shirazeh Houshiary: Smell of First Snow

    By playing cunning games with light and perspective, Houshiary has found ways to make her sculptures come physically alive, but it is the paintings in this exhibition that are the most intriguing

  • Listening to the Lines

    Through the work of eight international artists and architects who explore the versatile but universal perception of line, this exhibition invites viewers to explore the many configurations of that simple, fundamental motif

  • All the World’s Futures: the 56th Venice Biennale

    Under the African curator Okwui Enwezor, the 56th Venice Biennale attempts to bring together our disorganised world, reflected in the diversity of works on display, and to embrace our pasts, presents and futures

  • Sleepless: The Bed in History and Contemporary Art

    This tightly curated and fascinating exhibition brings together nearly 200 pieces featuring beds used in birth, sex, illness and death, from a first-century advert for a brothel in Pompeii to a Tracey Emin four-poster

  • The Two Roberts: Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde

    ‘The two Roberts’, as they were known, became a sensation, feted by London galleries, but then they faded from prominence and both died early. The thrill of this exhibition is that it brings their legacy back to life

  • Frieze New York 2015

    Buzz bubbled to the surface at Frieze New York’s fourth outing, where there were discoveries and delights to be had among the 190-plus galleries, and the attendance was stellar. Meanwhile, Art Miami’s New York debut, which included more than 100…

  • Watch This! Revelations in Media Art

    Interactive and sound art installations, sculptures and animations, experimental film and video art pieces, and video games celebrate the creative exchange between art and technology that pushes the boundaries of both

  • Fiona Tan

    Fiona Tan explores domestic environments through video and installation across two parallel exhibitions at Frith Street Gallery in London. The works displayed show Tan’s desire to archive and document space in an attempt to bring order to a tumultuous contemporary…

  • Shannon Yee: ‘It’s one step better than walking in somebody else’s shoes’

    After a life-threatening brain infection, artist Shannon Yee found herself in hospital paralysed down one side and with part of her skull removed. She explains that her latest work, Reassembled, Slightly Askew, is an attempt to make sense of her…

  • Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness

    American photographer Christopher Williams uses his first UK retrospective to illustrate how comfortable we have made ourselves in a synthetic, commercial world

  • Ahmet Ogut: Happy Together: Collaborators Collaborating

    Directing a chatshow featuring a host of friends and former collaborators, Kurdish artist Ahmet Öğüt reminds us of the one thing about contemporary art that people forget: it’s supposed to be fun

  • I’m Here But You’ve Gone

    A number of artists have each spent 10 months researching fragrances before devising one of their own. It is an interesting idea, but it also raises the question of copyright law and whether perfume can be considered art

  • Gordon Shrigley: interview

    An artist who has been concerned with concepts related to the line for more than 20 years, Shrigley explains why he is now working with performance

  • Modigliani: A Unique Artistic Voice

    This exhibition of Modigliani, who died tragically young, focuses on his works on paper, and shows how, drawing on classical tradition as well as the contemporary art of the time, his distinctive style evolved

  • Sanya Kantarovsky: Apricot Juice

    Russian artist Sanya Kantarovsky has based this exhibition on Mikhail Bulgakov’s satirical novel The Master and Margarita. Exploring the story on canvas with oil, pastel, watercolour and oil stick, he translates the author’s words into art

  • Kate Downie and Susan Winton: Drawing on the landscape

    Both these painters are engaged in defining their place within the landscape. From the Forth Bridge to the Parramatta River north of Sydney, from Shetland to the Spanish coast, these two women draw on their Scottish home base and their…

  • The New Whitney

    As the Whitney opens its doors for the first time at its new building, it is clear that architect Renzo Piano has not disappointed – the museum’s footprint is palatial, its presence majestic. And with most of its collection left…

  • Cindi Di Marzo

    It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Cindi Di Marzo, aged 52.

  • SP-Arte: The São Paulo International Art Fair 2015

    SP-Arte 2015 hosted work from more than 140 galleries and 170 countries. The glittering opening had its moments and the solo exhibitions and performance events were memorable. But if only the organisers had been bolder