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The Noise In-Between: An Interview With Ivan Seal

Declan Tan talks memory, meaning, and material with Berlin-based artist and Caretaker collaborator, Ivan Seal

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Suburban Gothic: An Interview With Eric Fischl

Craft/Work meets American painter Eric Fischl, one of the bad boys of the 80s New York art world, poet of the suburbs, on the eve of his show of new work at Skarstedt Gallery, London

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Noise As Abstraction: Fuzzing The Limits Of Free Speech In Thailand

Strict laws limit public discussion in Thailand, but Pisitakun Kuantalaeng has found a way to explore the unsaid through experimental noise music. As he sets off on his European tour, he talks with Eve Watling about protest, propaganda and praying for cash

Art

The Opposite Of Words: Albert Oehlen On Pop, Posters, And Process

In an exclusive extract from a major new career-spanning book about Albert Oehlen, Alexander Klar interviews the German painter about the end and origin of his dazzling, abstract images

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A Wish For Invisibility: The Chance And Ephemera Of Henri Michaux

At the Guggenheim, Bilbao, Fisun Güner discovers a push to the outer limits of experience in the visual art of Belgian poet and painter, Henri Michaux

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A Current Under Sea: Margate Journeys With The Waste Land

Hannah Luxton journeys to the east coast to consider shows inspired by T.S. Eliot's epic poem at Turner Contemporary and The Pie Factory

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Loop > See Loop: Eddie Peake And Kool London At The White Cube

Artist Eddie Peake invites legendary London pirate station Kool London into his dwelling space at the White Cube, Bermondsey

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Artist Run: Living Rooms And Parked Cars At The Other Places Art Fair

Perwana Nazif talks to key players in the Los Angeles alternative art space scene about why art is best viewed at dinner or in a car at the first Other Places art fair.

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Circles Within Circles: Haroon Mirza, Curator

At the Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, Haroon Mirza curates a gesamtkunstwerk of sound and vision out of work by Jonathon Monk, Patrick Caulfield, Peter Sedgley, and Tacita Dean

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In The Beginning Was Rhythm: Giorgio Griffa’s Infinite Series

As the octogenarian Italian painter opens his first ever UK show at Camden Arts Centre, Craft/Work talks to Giorgio Griffa about music, process, and Arte Povera

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Buisness Propositions: Babak Ganjei Talks Art, Ideas, And eBay

With a solo exhibition currently on display at South London's War Gallery, Craft/Work caught up with artist Babak Ganjei to learn how an online marketplace became a site of conceptual art practice

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Bodies That Matter: On Ai Weiwei, Artur Żmijewski, L.A. Raeven And More

At the Migros Museum in Zurich, Barnaby Smith finds an argument for pluralism in Extra Bodies – The Use of the 'Other Body' in Contemporary Art

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Gentlemen Take Polaroids: Wim Wenders’ Instant Stories

An exhibition of Polaroid pictures offers insights into the film-making processes of German director Wim Wenders, finds Adam Scovell at the Photographers' Gallery

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Will The Real Rodney Graham Please Stand Up: That’s Not Me At IMMA

At the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, John Quin faces multiple Rodney Grahams through which the Canadian artist reveals his obsessions with time and dead media

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The Artist Is Not Present: Marina Abramovic On Gino De Dominicis

At a recent panel discussion at London's Luxembourg & Dayan gallery, Marina Abramovic spoke of the influence of Italian artist Gino De Domenicis

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A Highly Magnified World: Ryoichi Kurokawa’s Adventures In The Nanosphere

Tristan Bath travels to Braga, Portugal, to explore Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa's adventures in nanotech, nanostructures, and nanoscience

Art

“Illustration Does Not Exist”: John Minton In His Own Words

In an exclusive extract from his new book, The Snail That Climbed the Eiffel Tower and Other Work by John Minton, Martin Salisbury introduces the English artist's views on his own work

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Gaming The System: They Are Here At Tate Exchange

Helen Walker and Harun Morrison's collaborative artist practice They Are Here takes over Tate Exchange for an exploration of precarity and modern labour with 40 Temps, 8 Days

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Look, Look, Look Again: The Spurious Studios Of Andrew Grassie

Emma Cummins re-learns the art of paying attention, exploring Andrew Grassie’s photo-realist paintings of fictional artist’s studios

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Into The Voids: Traversing The Work Of Raymond Depardon

At the Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson in Paris, Adam Scovell explores one of the most important European post-war photographers still working today

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A World In Ruins: An Interview With Rachel Maclean

Francesca Scotrick-Boyd catches up with artist Rachel Maclean to discuss fairytales and fake news

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Be No Fool: Kehinde Wiley Goes In Search Of The Miraculous

For his new show at Stephen Friedman, London, Barack Obama's portrait painter, Kehinde Wiley, sacrifices clarity of vision to do what he does best: empower

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Noddy Amongst The Valkyries: Martin Puryear At Parasol Unit

Martin Puryear chews up minimalism and spits it out, at Parasol Unit, London

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Art Making Itself Useful: The Legacy Of Eric Ravilious

Sam Gregory finds a peculiar shade of modernism running through Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship at the Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

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Cézanne With A Thousand Faces: Post-Impressionist Portraits

Fisun Güner marvels at the fusion of figure and foliage in the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition of Paul Cézanne's portraits

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Stop, Look, And Listen: Soundtracks At SFMOMA

Will Jennings listens to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s landmark exhibition of sound art

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Mathematical Socialism: Tim Otto Roth Lights Up Hanoi

German artist Tim Otto Roth brings two light and sound installations, aura calculata and Deep Doppler, examples of what he calls “mathematical socialism”, to the Goethe-Institut in Vietnam’s capital city

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The Subtle Realm: Philip Mount On Raw Essence

In an exclusive essay for The Quietus, Philip Mount discusses the background to his paintings for Raw Essence, his solo show at Jason Vass gallery in LA

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“A Last Glimpse Of The Land”: On Melancholia – A Sebald Variation

Adam Scovell uncovers a creeping destruction in an exhibition of art works inspired by the German writer W.G. Sebald, at Somerset House

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It’s Trad Dad: Richard Prince Unpacks His Record Collection

For his new show at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, the notorious appropriation artist displays a fondness for Mike Bloomfield (and black bras)

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Ruff’s Riffs: The Todd Rundgren Of German Photography

At Thomas Ruff's retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery, John Quin finds an artist perpetually shifting, besotted by hallucinatory visions

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Shagged Out: At Frieze 2017

Delighted by Magritte, stunned by Penone, Fisun Güner tells us what not to miss and what gets nul points at Frieze 2017 and Frieze Masters

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