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Bodies That Matter: Stina Nyberg At Block Universe Performance Festival

At this year's Block Universe festival of performance art, Stina Nyberg's Shapes of States stood out for its nuanced look at the conjoined histories of Taylorism, Biomechanics, and Swedish public health programmes

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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

Art

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

Art

“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

Art

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

Art

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

Art

Sex Positive: Betty Tompkins’ Virgins In New York

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

Art

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

Art

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

Art

Colouring Out: Queer British Art At The Tate

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

Art

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

Art

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

Art

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

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

Art

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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Expressway To Your Eye: Suki Chan’s Lucida

Suki Chan's installation at Manchester's Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art is a confrontation with the process of seeing

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

Alice Woodhouse explores the jerrybuilt systems at work in Yuko Mohri's exhibition for White Rainbow gallery, Moré Moré [Leaky]

Art

Capitalist Realism: American Art At The Royal Academy

The Royal Academy's new show of depression-era American art is a curatorial triumph

Art

The World Zooming In: Remembering Ren Hang

Karl Smith pays tribute to Chinese photographer and poet Ren Hang who died this week

Art

Private Territories: Room and House Work

Different images of domestic interiority are explored at two London group shows: Room at Sadie Coles HQ and House Work at Victoria Miro

Art

Zones Of Sacrifice: Drifting Through London With Laura Oldfield Ford

With her latest exhibition Alpha/Isis/Eden open at the nearby Showroom, artist Laura Oldfield Ford takes Craft/Work for a dérive through the environs of Lisson Grove

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Blow By Blow: George Condo Re-Writes Art History

The American painter of "fake old masters" throws his hat in the ring with Picasso, Klee, Matisse, and Cézanne at Berlin's Museum Berggruen

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Paper Tigers: Art, Politics, And The Pamphlet

Bodies That Matter: Stina Nyberg At Block Universe Performance Festival

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

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