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Twittering Machines: The Surreal World of Les Shadoks

A new exhibition at Annecy Castle takes us deep into the bizarre humour and vivid graphic art of French animated series, Les Shadoks

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Hedge Walking: The Land Art Of Andy Goldsworthy

Will Jennings considers British land artist Andy Goldsworthy's relation to time, nature, and the city

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(An)Other Space: Oren Pinhassi’s Second Nature

Israeli-born, NY-based artist Oren Pinhassi has his first solo show in London, at Edel Assanti

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Here Comes The Mirror Man: Mark Wallinger In Hastings

John Quin finds poetry in motion at Mark Wallinger's latest solo show at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings

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Attention Must Be Paid: Bruce Nauman In Basel

John Quin gets to grips with the American master’s retrospective at Schaulager

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Moments Of Respite: Curator Seán Elder On Tako Taal & Rami George

Cathy Wade talks to Seán Elder, curator of the show Inherited Premises at Grand Union, Birmingham, featuring the work of artists Tako Taal and Rami George

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Too Cool For School: Hopper, Hartley, Demuth At The Ashmolean

It's your last chance to catch the Ashmolean's Cool Modernism show. Head there now to see paintings by Stuart Davis, E E Cummings, and Morton Livingston Schamberg alongside more famous names like Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keefe

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Abject Luxury: The Legacy Of Martin Margiela

Two shows in Paris dedicated to the the Belgian fashion designer reveal an artist of consistent theoretical depth

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Cold, Hard Future: Katja Novitskova’s Invasion Curves

Katja Novitskova found the 4Moms Mamaroo baby swing on YouTube. Now it's at the centre of her installation, Invasion Curves, at the Whitechapel Gallery

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The Magic Space: Andrew Jackson On From A Small Island

With his current exhibition, From a Small Island, currently on view at mac Birmingham, photographer Andrew Jackson talks to Cathy Wade about place and space, coming and returning, and the legacies of the Windrush generation

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A Lark Ascending: Karl Bielik On Painting And Process

Hannah Luxton talks to painter and musician Karl Bielik about connections between his art work and his music

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Wide Eyed And Legless: Duggie Fields’s House Party

John Quin tapes his head on in Glasgow with the madcap of British post-pop figuration

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Golden Ears: Alexander Provan On Measuring Device With Organs

Robert Barry talks to Triple Canopy editor Alexander Provan about expert listening, audio formats, and his new LP, Measuring Device with Organs

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Frida Kahlo: Viva La Vida

Lynsey Ford speaks to the team behind a forthcoming exhibition at the V&A of Frida Kahlo's most intimate possessions

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Wet Ware: 11 Fountains In Leeuwarden-Friesland, Capital Of Culture

As part of its tenure as one of this year’s European Capitals of Culture, Leeuwarden-Friesland, in the Netherlands, has commission eleven artists to build eleven Fountains

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The Final Curtain: Thomas Struth’s Inanimate Menagerie

John Quin finds a memento mori at Thomas Struth’s show for Max Hetzler, Berlin

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The Question Of The Wrapper Design: Edward Bawden’s Book Jackets

With a landmark retrospective opening this week at Dulwich Picture Gallery, The Quietus presents an abridged extract from Peyton Skipwith’s introduction to ‘Are You Sitting Comfortably? The Book Jackets of Edward Bawden’

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“What Nut Does The Human Finger Most Taste Like?”: A Party After The End Of The World

Sam Gregory heads to Sheffield's Festival of Debate for A Party After The End of the World by Forest Sounds

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What You See Is What You Hear: Robbie Thomson Makes Art From Electricity

At the Brighton Festival next week, artist Robbie Thomson presents XFRMR, a performance with tesla coils and faraday cages. Hannah Luxton spoke to him to find out more

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Shouting In Colour: Takunda Regis Billiat And Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude

Artist and broadcaster, Jude Cowan Montague visits Kubatana, an exhibition of works by Takunda Regis Billiat and Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in Wandsworth

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Bodies Rest And Motion: Magali Reus At South London Gallery

At Magali Reus's current show at the SLG, Matthew Turner finds objects that speak for themselves in a warped material reality

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No More Parrillas In BA?: The Vivid Satire Of Marcos Lopez

John Quin gets at the real meat of Argentinian photography in an exhibition by Marcos Lopez at Rolf, Buenos Aires

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More Found Than Formed: The Divine Excrescence Of Joseph Beuys

At Thaddaeus Ropac, London, the elements of a landmark 1982 installation are reunited for the first time in thirty-five years

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The Mystery Of Things: An Interview With Sue Tompkins

At Borealis Festival in Bergen, Robert Barry catches up with visual artist and former Life Without Buildings vocalist Sue Tompkins

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Transitional Subjects: Hannah Black & Bonaventure

Fisun Güner explores iconoclasm and complexity in the work of Hannah Black, at the Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva

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The London Scene: Recalling 60s Soho With Bacon, Freud, & Kossoff

Richard Assheton takes a stroll through the Soho of the 60s in time for a new book from Thames & Hudson and an exhibition at Ordovas, both devoted to the art scene around Bacon, Freud, Riley et al

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Action, Time And Vision: Günter Brus Gets Dirty

A cowering John Quin finds art impolite enough to take on ideology at Günter Brus' Unrest after the Storm at Belvedere 21 in Vienna

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Against Everything: Club 57 At MoMA

Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983, at the New York Museum of Modern Art celebrate the spirit of gleeful defiance initiated when a group of artists stormed an East Village social space

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The Imitation Of A Memory: Pizzi Cannella On Painting, Poetry, And The New School Of Rome

For much of the 1980s, Piero Pizzi Cannella was associated with the New School of Rome, a group of painters reinvigorating painting in the Italian capital. An exhibition of nine new works opened this month at Partners & Mucciaccia, London

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An Invasion Of The Palace By Smaller Places: Danny Pockets RIP

In memorium, Danny Pockets, whose Houses of the Holy are on display at the Royal Albert Hall this weekend

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Epic Soundtracks: Artists Who Make Music And Musicians Who Make Art

John Quin finds some suspicious packages in a railway station in Glasgow

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A Year Of Wonders: Picasso, 1932

Violence and voluptuous sensuality at the Tate's Picasso 1932 mega-show

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Twittering Machines: The Surreal World of Les Shadoks

Hedge Walking: The Land Art Of Andy Goldsworthy

(An)Other Space: Oren Pinhassi’s Second Nature

Here Comes The Mirror Man: Mark Wallinger In Hastings

Attention Must Be Paid: Bruce Nauman In Basel

Moments Of Respite: Curator Seán Elder On Tako Taal & Rami George

Too Cool For School: Hopper, Hartley, Demuth At The Ashmolean

Abject Luxury: The Legacy Of Martin Margiela

Cold, Hard Future: Katja Novitskova’s Invasion Curves

The Magic Space: Andrew Jackson On From A Small Island

A Lark Ascending: Karl Bielik On Painting And Process

Wide Eyed And Legless: Duggie Fields’s House Party

Golden Ears: Alexander Provan On Measuring Device With Organs

Frida Kahlo: Viva La Vida

Wet Ware: 11 Fountains In Leeuwarden-Friesland, Capital Of Culture

The Final Curtain: Thomas Struth’s Inanimate Menagerie

The Question Of The Wrapper Design: Edward Bawden’s Book Jackets

“What Nut Does The Human Finger Most Taste Like?”: A Party After The End Of The World

What You See Is What You Hear: Robbie Thomson Makes Art From Electricity

Shouting In Colour: Takunda Regis Billiat And Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude

Bodies Rest And Motion: Magali Reus At South London Gallery

No More Parrillas In BA?: The Vivid Satire Of Marcos Lopez

More Found Than Formed: The Divine Excrescence Of Joseph Beuys

The Mystery Of Things: An Interview With Sue Tompkins

Transitional Subjects: Hannah Black & Bonaventure

The London Scene: Recalling 60s Soho With Bacon, Freud, & Kossoff

Action, Time And Vision: Günter Brus Gets Dirty

Against Everything: Club 57 At MoMA

The Imitation Of A Memory: Pizzi Cannella On Painting, Poetry, And The New School Of Rome

An Invasion Of The Palace By Smaller Places: Danny Pockets RIP

Epic Soundtracks: Artists Who Make Music And Musicians Who Make Art

A Year Of Wonders: Picasso, 1932

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