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Carried By The Light: Robby Müller In Polaroids

At the International Film Festival Rotterdam, an exhibition of polaroid photographs by Robby Müller reveals the Dutch cinematographer's fascination with light and movement

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Bringing Out the Dead: Christian Boltanski’s Archives & Memorials

John Quin visits the French artist's retrospective, Faire son temps, in Paris

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Kettled In: Sound Art & Deep Listening At Glasgow’s Sonica Festival

With work by Yuri Suzuki, Navid Navab ,Michael Montanaro, Yulia Kovanova, Demelza Kooij, and others, Glasgow's Sonica festival was an interdisciplinary treat, finds Colm McAuliffe

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Practices Of Love: Getting Physical With Kontejner

At the Extravagant Bodies / Extravagant Love Festival in Zagreb, Antonio Poscic finds an unbridled and uncompromising take on modern romance

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Material Decay: Ryan Foerster’s Accursed Share

At Clearing, Brooklyn, artist Ryan Foerster documents the decay of the modern world

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2019 In Art: Quietus Writers Pick The Year’s Best Exhibitions

As the year draws to a close, Craft/Work's regular scribes pick shows by Tomás Saraceno, Cady Noland, Nam June Paik, Keith Piper and more

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Unknown Venuses: Renee So At The De La Warr Pavilion

Renee So's show at the De La Warr Pavilion uses archetypal forms to forge a unique personal language

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TV OD: Nam June Paik At The Tate Modern

Nam June Paik's show at Tate Modern is a hymn to the materiality of technology

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Miles Ahead: Stan Douglas In Berlin

John Quin has big fun watching a film of a six-hour jazz/funk jam

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The Altar As Sound System: Cevdet Erek At Hamburger Bahnhof

At the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Cevdet Erek turns a two thousand year old monument into a wall of sound

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Neon Lights: The Digital Art Of Rebecca Allen

Pioneering American digital artist Rebecca Allen talks to Amah-Rose Abrams about working with Chris Blackwell and Kraftwerk and finding the spiritual side to computer graphics

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Rock Around The Clock: Dimitris Papaioannou In Sisyphus / Trans / Form

At the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, performance artist Dimitris Papaioannou re-imagines the myth of Sisyphus

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Puppet Masters: Early Film & Puppetoons At Tartu Toy Museum

Tartu Toy Museum offers a journey into the pioneering early work of Estonian animators and puppeteers

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The Tyranny Of Representation: Michael Simpson Interviewed

As he opens a show of new paintings at Blain|Southern’s London space, British painter Michael Simpson recalls his days at the Royal College with Hockney and Caulfield, explains his hatred of religion, and why he gets envious of abstract artists

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Tree Hugger: Fondation Cartier Gets Arboreal

At the Fondation Cartier, Paris, an exhibition dedicated to the lungs of the world features work by Raymond Depardon, Luiz Zerbini, Sebastián Mejía, and more

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A Politics Of The Image: An Interview With Trevor Paglen

With his new installation, From Apple To Anomaly, just opened at London’s Barbican Centre, Trevor Paglen talks to Robert Barry about AI, machine vision, and shutting down the internet

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Fed Through The Memory Filter: Richard Foster’s Museum of Photocopies

Curator Richard Foster welcomes us into his Museum of Photocopies

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The Pataphysics Of Connecting: Alex Farrar Gets Physical

With a major solo show currently on view at Bloc Projects, Sheffield, and another opening this weekend at SE8 Gallery, London, Alex Farrar talks to Allan Gardner about precarity, anxiety and making art inspired by sweat and fingernail clippings

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Beware The Savage Jaw: The Doublethink Paintings Of Clare Woods

At a show by Clare Woods, the artist responsible for Carpenter's Curve, the 80 metres long tilework on permanent display at London's Olympic Park, John Quin asks: who could ask for more?

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Psychedelic Odin: William Blake’s Gift To Musicians

From Julian Cope to, er, Fat Les, as Tate Britain opens its major new show about William Blake, John Higgs, the author of William Blake Now, looks at the great mystic painter-poet's influence on contemporary pop

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Welcome To The Pleasuredome: Helen Beard Interviewed

With a major new exhibition opening this weekend at Unit London, Helen Beard talks to Bárbara Borges de Campos about female desire and getting her break from Damien Hirst

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Dear Mammal: The PAL Psychedelia Of Pipilotti Rist

At the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Andrew Bulhak explores a retrospective of the Swiss video installation artist Pipilotti Rist

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How Does It Feel? Michael Bracewell Show Explores Art & Pop, 1976–1995

The current show at Sprüth Magers, London, curated by British writer Michael Bracewell, explores the mutual fascination between the worlds of art and pop music in the 80s and 90s

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Platform Shoes: Emerging Artists In Sheffield

Platform 2019 presents the working practices of five emerging artists across several galleries in Sheffield

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Where You From? What You On? Sweet Harmony Is An Exhibition About Rave

At the Saatchi Gallery's exhibition Sweet Harmony: Rave Today, tQ talks to co-curator Kobi Prempeh about the past and future of club culture

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Windows Of The World: Lois Dodd At Modern Art, London

John Quin lowers the temperature at the first UK survey by one of the key players in New York's post-war art scene, spanning six decades of work

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Fairism: Art Basel As Heterotopia

At this year’s Art Basel, Bárbara Borges de Campos ponders the uncertain nature of the art fair as ephemeral city or space station, mall or brothel

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Double Take: A Beginner’s Guide To The Chicago Imagists

Unfamiliar with the work of Ed Flood, Suellen Rocca, and Steve Albini's old art teacher, Ed Paschke? Fear not! John Quin visits a survey of Chicago Imagists at the De La Warr Pavilion

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No Worries? New Art From Australia

John Quin checks out a large survey of contemporary work on show in Sydney

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Monster Mash-Up: The Art Gallery As Haunted House

In the Charlie Fox-curated My Head Is A Haunted House at Sadie Coles HQ and Dracula's Wedding at Rodeo, contemporary artists explore he ghoulish, uncanny, macabre, gory, and otherworldly

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Between Signal And Noise: The Feminist Soundscapes Of Aura Satz

With a newly commissioned work at the Science Gallery's Dark Matter exhibition, Aura Satz speaks to the Quietus about notation, embodiment, and rewriting history

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Is That All There Is To A Fire? Sophie Jung At Block Universe

At this year's Block Universe festival of performance art, Charlie Hardie takes in two performances by Sophie Jung

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Carried By The Light: Robby Müller In Polaroids

Bringing Out the Dead: Christian Boltanski’s Archives & Memorials

Kettled In: Sound Art & Deep Listening At Glasgow’s Sonica Festival

Practices Of Love: Getting Physical With Kontejner

Material Decay: Ryan Foerster’s Accursed Share

2019 In Art: Quietus Writers Pick The Year’s Best Exhibitions

Unknown Venuses: Renee So At The De La Warr Pavilion

TV OD: Nam June Paik At The Tate Modern

Miles Ahead: Stan Douglas In Berlin

The Altar As Sound System: Cevdet Erek At Hamburger Bahnhof

Neon Lights: The Digital Art Of Rebecca Allen

Rock Around The Clock: Dimitris Papaioannou In Sisyphus / Trans / Form

Puppet Masters: Early Film & Puppetoons At Tartu Toy Museum

The Tyranny Of Representation: Michael Simpson Interviewed

Tree Hugger: Fondation Cartier Gets Arboreal

A Politics Of The Image: An Interview With Trevor Paglen

Fed Through The Memory Filter: Richard Foster’s Museum of Photocopies

The Pataphysics Of Connecting: Alex Farrar Gets Physical

Beware The Savage Jaw: The Doublethink Paintings Of Clare Woods

Psychedelic Odin: William Blake’s Gift To Musicians

Welcome To The Pleasuredome: Helen Beard Interviewed

Dear Mammal: The PAL Psychedelia Of Pipilotti Rist

How Does It Feel? Michael Bracewell Show Explores Art & Pop, 1976–1995

Platform Shoes: Emerging Artists In Sheffield

Where You From? What You On? Sweet Harmony Is An Exhibition About Rave

Windows Of The World: Lois Dodd At Modern Art, London

Fairism: Art Basel As Heterotopia

Double Take: A Beginner’s Guide To The Chicago Imagists

No Worries? New Art From Australia

Monster Mash-Up: The Art Gallery As Haunted House

Between Signal And Noise: The Feminist Soundscapes Of Aura Satz

Is That All There Is To A Fire? Sophie Jung At Block Universe

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