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Smash hit: Ron Arad’s first NFT drop takes things up a gear
Designer, artist and architect Ron Arad joins the NFT crowd with the help of curatorial platform Shifting Vision
By Nick Compton • Last updated
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Riotous colour, terrific textiles: Sheila Hicks: ‘Off Grid’ at The Hepworth Wakefield
Fiber art icon Sheila Hicks’ much-anticipated show at The Hepworth Wakefield is a career-spanning celebration of voluminous form and vibrant colour
By Jessica Klingelfuss • Last updated
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Steve McQueen’s ‘Sunshine State’ illuminates the cavernous halls of Milan’s Pirelli HangarBicocca
At Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, acclaimed artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen unveils the world premiere of the video installation, Sunshine State, staged alongside iconic works
By Amah-Rose Abrams • Last updated
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Girls Girls Girls: Simone Rocha’s subversive exploration of femininity
Simone Rocha unites an eclectic collection of artists for the new exhibition ‘Girls Girls Girls’ at Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland
By Hannah Silver • Last updated
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Niemeyer pavilion enriches the landscape at Château La Coste
Château La Coste's latest architecture addition is a sculptural pavilion designed by the late, great Oscar Niemeyer
By Deyan Sudjic • Last updated
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Kunsthalle Praha: the electric new addition to Prague’s art scene
Housed in a former electrical substation, Kunsthalle Praha is sparking new creative energy in the Czech capital. Its striking inaugural group show celebrates 100 years of electricity in art
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated
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Last chance to see: Elmgreen & Dragset ‘Useless Bodies?’ at Fondazione Prada
Elmgreen & Dragset’s new show at Milan’s Fondazione Prada is an uncanny exploration of our dematerialising bodies and increasingly discomforting homes
By TF Chan • Last updated
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Jeppe Hein’s carte blanche for Ruinart invites mindful participation
Danish artist Jeppe Hein’s carte blanche project for champagne house Ruinart invites visitors to embrace the moment through words and drawings
By TF Chan • Last updated
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Candida Höfer composes staggering portraits of vacant public spaces
We profile German photographer Candida Höfer, who is known for powerful large-format photographs of public spaces around the world
By Emily McDermott • Last updated
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In Dallas, Nasher Prize Dialogues will explore sculpture’s new frontiers
Inspired by 2022 Nasher Prize winner Nairy Baghramian, the latest talk in this international discussion programme – ‘The Uncanny Politics of Objects’, 2 April 2022 – takes a boundary-breaking turn with a panel spanning art, architecture and design
By Harriet Lloyd Smith • Last updated
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Thomas Struth on four decades of art: ‘I know more, I see more, and I suffer more’
German artist Thomas Struth has looked deeply and widely into the relationship between people and their environment. With concurrent exhibitions in New York and Berlin, the artist tells us about his fusion of science, nature and family
By Charlotte Jansen • Last updated
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The Andy Warhol Diaries on Netflix reveals his enduring impact on contemporary art
We review the new documentary, and showcase Warhol’s impact on modern culture through three artists: Deborah Kass, Jeff Koons and Glenn Ligon
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated
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Major contemporary artists sell prints to aid Artists at Risk in Ukraine
Leading contemporary artists including Nan Goldin, Isaac Julien and Camille Henrot are selling open-edition prints in aid of Artists at Risk during the ongoing war in Ukraine
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated
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‘By queers for queers’: NGV hosts largest ever show of queer art in Australia
Celebrating Pride Month, we revisit our article on the major Melbourne show, ‘Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection’, which reveals how LGBTQ+ stories and histories can be told through art (until 21 August 2022)
By Elias Redstone • Last updated
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‘By queers for queers’: NGV hosts largest ever show of queer art in Australia
Celebrating Pride Month, we revisit our article on the major Melbourne show, ‘Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection’, which reveals how LGBTQ+ stories and histories can be told through art (until 21 August 2022)
By Harriet Lloyd Smith • Last updated
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‘Punk ballerina’ Karole Armitage debuts a genre-bending show in New York
Karole Armitage, the choreographer behind Madonna’s Vogue video and Marc Jacobs’ A/W 2021 show, debuts A Pandemic Notebook at New York Live Arts
By Mary Cleary • Last updated
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Chiharu Shiota’s ‘labyrinth within a labyrinth’ at Copenhagen’s Cisternerne
Chiharu Shiota has become the latest artist to take over the arched depths of Copenhagen’s Cisternerne. Titled Multiple Realities, her installation is a poetic landscape of web-like yarn, both serene and unsettling
By Minako Norimatsu • Last updated
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Exhibition review: Damien Hirst’s greatest hits in formaldehyde
‘Natural History’ at Gagosian Britannia Street, London is the first-ever show dedicated to Damien Hirst’s iconic formaldehyde sculptures. Chopped-up sharks, flayed innards, six-limbed cows – why do we keep returning for another slice?
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated
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Sergiy Barchuk sets up photography print sale aiding Ukraine children’s hospital
Via his Instagram platform, Ukraine-born photographer Sergiy Barchuk is selling prints of his work to raise funds for the Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv as the war in Ukraine intensifies. Find out how you can support
By Sophie Gladstone • Last updated
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Last chance to see: Helen Pashgian, ‘Presences’ at Site Santa Fe
Art icon Helen Pashgian’s optically majestic sculptures are a lesson in perception, as featured in the April 2022 issue of Wallpaper*. Pashgian’s solo exhibition ‘Presences’ at Site Santa Fe runs until 27 March 2022
By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp • Last updated
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Vincent Ferrané’s photography celebrates the intimacy of the innocuous
New photography book Inner, by Vincent Ferrané, captures the private life of a couple
By Hannah Silver • Last updated
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Sondra Perry’s audiovisual landscape of dreams in Basel
For the inaugural Rolls-Royce Dream Commission, Sondra Perry stages Lineage for a Phantom Zone, an immersive multimedia installation at Fondation Beyeler, Basel
By Amah-Rose Abrams • Last updated
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Dance Reflections: progressive new festival blends art and movement
The inaugural edition of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival marks a bold new fixture on the performing arts calendar. In London from 9 – 23 March 2022, the initiative has been conceived in collaboration with Sadler’s Wells, the Royal Opera House and Tate Modern. Here’s what to expect
By Rachael Moloney • Last updated
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German watch design goes under the spotlight at a London watch exhibition
An exhibition at Phillips Perpetual, ‘Made in Germany, a Tribute to the Early Lange 1 and Datograph’, is a showcase of German watch design
By Hannah Silver • Last updated
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Shawanda Corbett on breaking the mould of ceramic art
American artist Shawanda Corbett’s performative pottery is shaped by history, music and theories around a ‘complete body’. Her show, ‘To the Fields of Lilac’, runs until 5 March at Salon 94, New York
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated
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Dreamachine: the much-anticipated immersive art experience launches in London
Launching in London at Woolwich Public Market on 10 May, Dreamachine is the new immersive experience created by Collective Act that brings together artists Assemble and composer Jon Hopkins. It’s designed as the first artwork to be experienced with closed eyes
By Nick Compton • Last updated
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Food, sexuality and domesticity: Anthea Hamilton reconsiders the familiar in Antwerp
Subversive and playful, Anthea Hamilton’s first survey exhibition, ‘Mash Up’ has opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
By Hannah Silver • Last updated