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Guitar Hero: Ragnar Kjartansson At The Barbican

At the Barbican, Suzie McCracken feels charmed and cosseted by Ragnar Kjartansson's latest works

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The Not There: The Abuse Standards Violations Of Eva & Franco Mattes

Eva and Franco Mattes’s show at Carroll/Fletcher explores the invisible labour behind the internet – but it finishes today, so hurry down there fast

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Studio Visit: An Interview With Lilah Fowler

Craft/Work visits the Homerton studio space of artist Lilah Fowler to talk code, culture, and landscape

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A Shed Of One’s Own: Supernormal Takes Art To The Bottom Of The Garden

With Supernormal Festival taking place this weekend in Oxfordshire, Craft/Work spoke to Eastville Project Space, Georgia Horgan, Bristol Experimental and Expanded Film, and Matt Copson about their projects for the festival's artist sheds

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Living City Plan: Laura Oldfield Ford At Grand Union, Birmingham

Laura Oldfield Ford's project for the Grand Union gallery explores the psychic resonances of the new Birmingham

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Delirious New Wick: Lawrence Lek’s Post-Brexit Apocalypse

Lawrence Lek's Bonus Levels had been a playful way of exploring issues around culturally-led regeneration, but since the EU referendum, they have started to take a darker turn

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Artist Run: Stepping Out With Footfall Art

A roving project by artist Hannah Luxton, Footfall Art installs the work of emerging artists in the street-facing windows of commercial buildings.

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Cross Channels: Performance And Ritual At Wysing Polyphonic

At Wysing Polyphonic, Augustin Macellari finds a curious mix of memories, expectations, and personal uptightness marring his appreciation of an otherwise bold line-up of cutting-edge performance art

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The Second Life Of Concrete: Brutalism’s Renaissance

Christo Hall takes a walk through the Sound Mirrors of the Kent coast with photographer Stuart Leech and finds an obscure functionalism melting into majestic land art

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Imagine The World Anew: Assemble Talk Brutalist Playgrounds

At Sheffields S1 Artspace, Sam Gregory clambers over some brutalist playgrounds and talks to architectural collective ASSEMBLE

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Explore Functions: Zero Zero At Annka Kultys Gallery

At Annka Kultys’s Bethnal Green gallery space, Craft/Work meets artist-curators Molly Soda, Ada Rajkovic, and Arvida Byström to talk online and offline presences – and the blurry spaces in-between

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Please Find An Alternative Entrance: Performance At The Switch House

On the opening weekend of the new Tate Modern Switch House, Bryony White watches performances by Tania Bruguera, Marina Abramovic, Ana Lupas, and more

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Home Is Where It Hurts: Mona Hatoum At Tate Modern

At the Tate Modern, Bella Gladman finds the work of Mona Hatoum both intimate and discomforting

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“Europe Needs English Tea”: The EU Referendum And The Arts

With the UK’s referendum over EU membership coming up on Thursday, artists and curators express their thoughts and feelings about Europe, the Union, and the prospects for Brexit.

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An Event Not An Appearance: Bridget Riley, Venice And Beyond

Amongst the hypnotic straight lines of Sheffield Graves Gallery’s Bridget Riley show, Sam Gregory finds an innovative response to the city’s straitened circumstances

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Formalism On Acid: Mary Heilmann At The Whitechapel Gallery

Looking at Pictures, the Whitechapel Gallery’s major new show of works by Mary Heilmann presents the first major UK survey of this important American artist

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Nuclear Semiotics: Guan Xiao At The ICA

At Guan Xiao’s ICA show, Augustin Macellari finds puzzles, totems, and resonant symbolisms

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Coming Attractions: June Gallery Previews

The return of Craft/Work's monthly exhibition previews column heralds burning footballs and erased borders from Grear Patterson, Francis Alÿs, Wolfgang Tillmans, and more

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Painting With The Light: Dan Flavin At Ikon

Twenty years after his death, the works of Dan Flavin are as illuminating as ever, finds Sam Gregory

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A Devil With The Detail: Joe Coleman Interviewed

With his latest work recently unveiled at Jeffrey Deitch’s Unrealism show in Miami, painter and performance artist Joe Coleman speaks to Sean Kitching about art, autopsies, and explosions

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The Flipside Of Technology: Cory Arcangel Interviewed

With a new show open at London’s Lisson Gallery, Cory Arcangel discusses music, nostalgia, clickbait and trash

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Everything Is A Picture: The False Friends Of Oliver Osborne

Both allusive and elusive, the work of Oliver Osborne both paints appropriation and appropriates painting

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The More-Than-Human World: An Interview With Hanna Tuulikki

Stewart Smith talks to Edinburgh-based multi-disciplinary artist Hanna Tuulikki about her site-specific performance projects Away With the Birds and Women of the Hill

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The Juarez Device: Mixing Images And Song With Terry Allen

As his Juarez project receives a lavish re-issue forty years after it first saw the light, Craft/Work talks to conceptual artist and outlaw country singer Terry Allen

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Night Call: The Art Of Thalma Goldman

In an exclusive extract from their new book about her, Richard Hallam and Sylvie Venet-Tupy discuss the life and work of artist and animator Thalma Goldman

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Bye Bye Space Boy: Conceptual Art In Britain

At Tate Britain’s new Conceptual Art in Britain show, Craft/Work finds plenty to sing about

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That Creeping Feeling: R. Crumb’s Art & Beauty

At David Zwirner's gallery in London, Suzie McCracken finds issue with the work of R. Crumb

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The Secret Of His Great Strength: Ai Weiwei At Idomeni

As the global refugee crisis rolls on, Bryony White considers the symbolics of Ai Weiwei's haircut in the Greek border town of Idomeni

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Off The Grid: Francois Morellet At Ninety

On the ninetieth birthday of the pathbreaking French painter, Geoff Cowart surveys two exhibitions dedicated to the hallucinatory work of the co-founder of the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel

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A Performative Approach To Nature: Exploring Art Sheffield

At Sheffield’s biennial cross-city art event, Robert Barry explores works by Charles Atlas, Michel Auder, Florian Hecker, Paul Sietsema, and Anna Barham

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Touching A Different Nerve: Robert Mapplethorpe On Film

As the first feature-length portrait of the American artist Robert Mapplethorpe opens in London, Olivia Marks talks to the film-makers Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey about sex, shock, and photography as an art form (some images slightly nsfw)

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Nan Goldin & The Ballad Of Sexual Dependency

Thirty years ago, Nan Goldin published her confessional, controversial photographic collection, The Ballad Of Sexual Dependency. In this similarly candid long read, Wyndham Wallace recalls an awkward - but ultimately rewarding - encounter last year

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Guitar Hero: Ragnar Kjartansson At The Barbican

The Not There: The Abuse Standards Violations Of Eva & Franco Mattes

Studio Visit: An Interview With Lilah Fowler

A Shed Of One’s Own: Supernormal Takes Art To The Bottom Of The Garden

Living City Plan: Laura Oldfield Ford At Grand Union, Birmingham

Delirious New Wick: Lawrence Lek’s Post-Brexit Apocalypse

Artist Run: Stepping Out With Footfall Art

Cross Channels: Performance And Ritual At Wysing Polyphonic

The Second Life Of Concrete: Brutalism’s Renaissance

Imagine The World Anew: Assemble Talk Brutalist Playgrounds

Explore Functions: Zero Zero At Annka Kultys Gallery

Please Find An Alternative Entrance: Performance At The Switch House

Home Is Where It Hurts: Mona Hatoum At Tate Modern

“Europe Needs English Tea”: The EU Referendum And The Arts

An Event Not An Appearance: Bridget Riley, Venice And Beyond

Formalism On Acid: Mary Heilmann At The Whitechapel Gallery

Nuclear Semiotics: Guan Xiao At The ICA

Coming Attractions: June Gallery Previews

Painting With The Light: Dan Flavin At Ikon

A Devil With The Detail: Joe Coleman Interviewed

The Flipside Of Technology: Cory Arcangel Interviewed

Everything Is A Picture: The False Friends Of Oliver Osborne

The More-Than-Human World: An Interview With Hanna Tuulikki

The Juarez Device: Mixing Images And Song With Terry Allen

Night Call: The Art Of Thalma Goldman

Bye Bye Space Boy: Conceptual Art In Britain

That Creeping Feeling: R. Crumb’s Art & Beauty

The Secret Of His Great Strength: Ai Weiwei At Idomeni

Off The Grid: Francois Morellet At Ninety

A Performative Approach To Nature: Exploring Art Sheffield

Touching A Different Nerve: Robert Mapplethorpe On Film

Nan Goldin & The Ballad Of Sexual Dependency

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