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Chance Meetings: The Visual Art Of Nurse With Wound’s Steven Stapleton

Conor McGrady heads to Burren College of Art, currently hosting the first major solo exhibition of visual art by Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound

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We Can Build You: The Handyman Aesthetic of Keef Winter

The Handyman aesthetic of Keef Winter marries sculpture to performance, environmental psychology to urbanism, architecture, and fine art

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Here Time Becomes Space: From Jeremiah Day To John Latham

Jeremiah Day's performances draw on Hannar Arendt and the events of Taksim Square and Gezi Park. Arcade Gallery's show Even Dust Can Burst Into Flames puts Day alongside Anna Barham, Kit Craig, and John Latham

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Data Body Politic: Dot.Art At Vivid Projects

Craft/Work checks out works by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Heath Bunting, MTAA, Rafaël Rozendaal, Critical Art Ensemble, Lorna Mills, and Ryder Ripps at Vivid Projects' Dot.Art group show

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The Eyes Have It: Katja Novitskova In Venice

Katja Novitskova takes over the Estonian Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale

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Crosstown Traffic: Alice Neel At Victoria Miro

Slimmed down from its appearance at David Zwirner in New York, Uptown, a show of paintings by Alice Neel curated by Hilton Als, arrives in London, at Victoria Miro

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The Last Work Of Art: Remembering Remko Scha

With a show dedicated to his visual work currently at TG Gallery, Nottingham, Craft/Work pays tribute to Remko Scha (1945–2015), pioneer of automatic art

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“Dialogue Is Our Ceremony”: An Interview With Postcommodity

With work currently on show at the Whitney Biennial and Brooklyn's Art in General, Adam Lehrer talks to Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, and Kade L. Twist of interdisciplinary arts collective, Postcommodity

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Taking The Bull By The Horns: Picasso’s Minotaurs

A new exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in London explores Picasso's obsession with horny beasts and fighting taurines

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Spatial Problems, Temporal Solutions: Cevdet Erek Interviewed

On the eve of the Venice Biennale, Craft/Work talks to Cevdet Erek, who this year will be the artist responsible for the Turkish Pavillion

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Sex Positive: Betty Tompkins’ Virgins In New York

Adam Lehrer explores the explicit pleasures of Betty Tompkins' Virgins show at P Pow Gallery

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Sticking Pins In Beautiful Things: Juergen Teller In Berlin

Photographer Juergen Teller's show in Berlin gives us Charlotte Rampling with a fox and Kim Kardashian looking gloriously daft

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Film As Surface: Elizabeth McAlpine’s Light Reading

At Elizabeth McAlpine's solo show at Laura Bartlett Gallery, Robert Barry discovers an exploration of the materiality of the cinematogaph

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A Chance To Cut: The Ends Of Collage

Inspired by the present show at Luxembourg & Dayan curated by Yuval Etgar, Craft/Work explores the past, present, and futures of cut and paste as style and idea

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No More Complex Pleasure Than Thought: Lina Hermsdorf

Alice Woodhouse explores the fictional worlds of Lina Hemsdorf, both offline – at Stoke Newington's Rowing Gallery – and on

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On The Edge: Michelle Williams Gamaker And Julia Kouneski

The exhibition Concrete Jungle at Annka Kultys Gallery, Bethnal Green, features the work of Tamar Guimarães alongside films by Michelle Williams Gamaker And Julia Kouneski, all equally inspired by Lygia Clark and Oscar Niemeyer

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Colouring Out: Queer British Art At The Tate

Exploring Tate Britain's survey of Queer British Art from 1861 to 1967

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Too Much On My Mind: Keith Tyson In Hastings

John Quin navigates Keith Tyson's overwhelming show of drawings, Turn Back Now, at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings

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Inventing Masks: Gillian Wearing And Claude Cahun

At the National Portrait Gallery, Gillian Wearing confronts surrealist Claude Cahun in Behind the Mask, Another Mask

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Concrete Poetry: Robert Montgomery’s Hammersmith Poem

As Robert Montgomery unveils his latest commission at Hammersmith Town Hall, Geoff Cowart catches up with the Scottish-born artist to chat modernism, Malevich, and metaphor

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Slated and Curated: Vlatka Horvat And Tim Etchells At Sheffield Millennium Gallery

Vlatka Horvat and Tim Etchells playfully reimagine Sheffield’s historic museum collection

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Mightier Than The Sword: Raymond Pettibon At The New Museum

Rob Arcand checks out the Raymond Pettibon retrospective, A Pen Of All Works, at New York's New Museum

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A Mixtape You Inhabit: All Channels Open At Wysing Arts Centre

At Cambridgeshire’s Wysing Arts Centre, a new audiovisual group show features work by Beatrice Dillon, Florence Peake, and Anne Tetzlaff, David Blandy and Larry Achiampong, plus Henna-Riika Halonen, Laura O’Neil, Evan Ifekoya, Lawrence Lek, Gary Zhexi Zhang, and Wojciech Kosma

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Chance Meetings: The Visual Art Of Nurse With Wound’s Steven Stapleton

We Can Build You: The Handyman Aesthetic of Keef Winter

Here Time Becomes Space: From Jeremiah Day To John Latham

Data Body Politic: Dot.Art At Vivid Projects

The Eyes Have It: Katja Novitskova In Venice

Crosstown Traffic: Alice Neel At Victoria Miro

The Last Work Of Art: Remembering Remko Scha

“Dialogue Is Our Ceremony”: An Interview With Postcommodity

Taking The Bull By The Horns: Picasso’s Minotaurs

Spatial Problems, Temporal Solutions: Cevdet Erek Interviewed

Sex Positive: Betty Tompkins’ Virgins In New York

Sticking Pins In Beautiful Things: Juergen Teller In Berlin

Film As Surface: Elizabeth McAlpine’s Light Reading

A Chance To Cut: The Ends Of Collage

No More Complex Pleasure Than Thought: Lina Hermsdorf

On The Edge: Michelle Williams Gamaker And Julia Kouneski

Colouring Out: Queer British Art At The Tate

Too Much On My Mind: Keith Tyson In Hastings

Inventing Masks: Gillian Wearing And Claude Cahun

Concrete Poetry: Robert Montgomery’s Hammersmith Poem

Slated and Curated: Vlatka Horvat And Tim Etchells At Sheffield Millennium Gallery

Mightier Than The Sword: Raymond Pettibon At The New Museum

A Mixtape You Inhabit: All Channels Open At Wysing Arts Centre

Expressway To Your Eye: Suki Chan’s Lucida

A Leak In This Old Building: Yuko Mohri At White Rainbow

Capitalist Realism: American Art At The Royal Academy

The World Zooming In: Remembering Ren Hang

Private Territories: Room and House Work

Zones Of Sacrifice: Drifting Through London With Laura Oldfield Ford

Blow By Blow: George Condo Re-Writes Art History

After The Revolution: Russian Art At The Royal Academy

“Sound Is Expensive”: An Interview With Christine Sun Kim

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