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John Walker – interview: ‘I wept uncontrollably in front of Goya’s Black paintings’
John Walker. Photo: Dave Clough, 2024.
Following the publication earlier this year of a Thames & Hudson monograph on his art, John Walker talks about how the landscape of Maine suits his work, his admiration for Brâncuși and why, if the world were on fire, he would rescue Rembrandt’s Jewish Bride
Paul Cezanne, The Sea at L’Estaque, 1878-79. Oil on canvas, 72.8 x 92.8 cm. Musée national Picasso-Paris, donation Picasso, 1978. Collection personnelle Pablo
Picasso. © RMN - Grand Palais - Mathieu Rabeau.
Tracking the artist’s development from local student to ‘father of modern art’, 135 works made by Paul Cezanne in and of his beloved home town of Aix-en-Provence have returned to the city for this intriguing exhibition linked to the restoration of his family home.
Irma Stern. A Modern Artist between Berlin and Cape Town, exhibition view, Brücke-Museum, Photo: Nick Ash.
This retrospective brings the German South African artist back into view, while tracing her position within German expressionism and the impact she had on modern art in Africa in the 20th century.
Elaine Shemilt. Image courtesy and copyright the artist.
An artist and researcher, Shemilt is known for her pioneering work in feminist video in the 1970s. She talks about growing up during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, using her own body in her videos and why she sees protecting our planet as a mature form of feminism.
London’s Statues of Women by Juliet Rix, published by Safe Haven Books.
This exhaustive yet compact guide to London’s statues of women presents a motley crew, not just of queens and heroines, but of ‘normal’ women of all shapes and forms.
Berlinde De Bruyckere. © Berlinde De Bruyckere. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Thomas Dashuber / Diözesanmuseum Freising.
The Belgian artist talks about the issues, artists and musicians that inspire her, the evolution of key motifs and techniques, the influence of her childhood experiences, and the joy of making her first public sculpture.
The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism, installation view, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, 14 June – 28 September 2025.
This grand tribute to Pissarro evokes the bliss of a walk in nature and is an illuminating look at the man who was crucial to French impressionism despite being an outsider.
William Kentridge, Laocoön (Plaster), 2021. © William Kentridge. Courtesy Kentridge Studio, Goodman Gallery, Galleria Lia Rumma and Hauser & Wirth. Photo © Jonty Wilde, courtesy Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
The first UK institutional show dedicated to Kentridge’s sculpture is joyfully approachable while maintaining its critical bite, as we are drawn into his creative imagination.
Guy Oliver, Badly Drawn Boys, 2022. Video still. Courtesy of the artist.
Guy Oliver’s laugh-out-loud film about being a teenager, Aqsa Arif’s exploration of life as a refugee on a Glasgow council estate and a poignant look at artist John Bellany, who battled alcoholism and ill health, are just some of the shows in this year’s festival.
Making Waves – Breaking Ground, installation view, Bowhouse, St Monans, Fife, 2025.
With 11 artists and more than 100 works, the wonders of the natural world are stunningly brought to life in this year’s Space to Breathe summer art exhibition, in collaboration with Purdy Hicks Gallery.
Edvard Munch, Sanatorium, 1902-03. Installation view, Lifeblood – Edvard Munch, Munch Museum, Oslo, 2025. Photo: Ove Kvavik. © Munch Museum.
A thoughtfully curated exploration of the convergence of art and health in the work of Munch, a man very much invested in a modernising medical world.
Installation view, Picasso – The Code of Painting, PoMo, Trondheim, 2025. © Photo: Uli Holz / PoMo, Trondheim. © Succession Pablo Picasso / BONO, Oslo 2025.
This show draws international attention to a vibrant new art space in the Norwegian city of Trondheim. But does it justify revived interest in the artist’s later works?.
Ro Robertson talking to Studio International at the opening of The Ribs Begin to Rise at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, July 2025.
At Sunderland’s Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, which stands beside the River Wear, is a new exhibition by Ro Robertson. We met them there to talk about the central installation and the other works in their first solo institutional show.
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. Orange, Black and Lilac Squares on Vermilion, 1968. © Wilhelmina Barns-Graham.
This show pays homage to the remarkable legacy of 10 artists who left their Scottish homeland to achieve success, becoming immersed in international developments in art in London, Paris and New York.
Niki de Saint Phalle & Jean Tinguely. Myths & Machines, installation view, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, 2025. © Niki Charitable Art Foundation. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2025. © Jean Tinguely, DACS 2025. Photo: Ken Adlard. Courtesy the artists and Hauser & Wirth.
She was an aristocrat sculpting voluptuous female figures, he a working-class maker of scrap metal kinetic sculptures – but their tumultuous personal relationship and creative collaborations endured.
Natalia Millman. Photo: Stephanie Belton.
Inviting others to write a letter about their grief, and responding to each with a drawing, was the starting point for Natalia Millman to process her own loss.
Jean-François Millet, The Wood Sawyers, 1850-52. Oil on canvas, 57 x 81 cm. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Bequeathed by Constantine Alexander Ionides (CAI.47). © V&A Images / Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
A fine-tuned pocket survey celebrates the influential French realist painter, who imbued scenes of rural life with monumental stature.
Ernest Edmonds. Courtesy of Gazelli Art House. Photo: Deniz Guzel.
On the occasion of Networked, his show at Gazelli Art House, London, the pioneering computer artist talks about his practice over the past 60 years and his latest work, Quantum Tango – and offers advice to artists wanting to follow in his footsteps.
Koo Jeong A, x Wheelscape, Evertro, 2015. Liverpool Biennale, UK. Photo: Gareth Jones.
A skating ramp, an invitation to paint the floor, a glowing tent-like structure – this ambitious joyful exhibition carves out a place in art history for work made for children.
Ten Sculptures by Tim Scott 1961-71 by Sam Cornish, published by Sansom & Co.
A thorough introduction to and overview of a fascinating artist who has been far too overlooked. The focus on this decade brings to the fore Scott’s paradoxical sculptures and horizontal Brâncuși-ism.
Céline Condorelli, Dedication (To The Sea, To The Sea). Folkestone Triennial, 2025. Photo: Lia Toby/PA Media Assignments.
Sorcha Carey’s first outing as curator of the Folkestone Triennial turns its sixth iteration into a subtle but no less powerful meditation on this distinctive coastal terrain, and the impacts of climate and human activity here and further afield.
Pat Steir: Song, installation view, Hauser & Wirth Zurich,, 13 June – 13 September 2025. © Pat Steir. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Jon Etter.
New paintings by the American artist, now 87, make their debut in this exhibition in Zurich.
Lubaina Himid with Magda Stawarska: Another Chance Encounter, installation view, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 12 July – 2 November 2025. Photo: Jo Underhill.
Drawing on correspondence between the writer Sophie Brzeska and the artist Nina Hamnett as well as Himid and Stawarska’s interactions with one another, the artists’ wit and ingenuity shines through.
Seulgi Lee, Slow Water, 2022. Installation view, Ikon Gallery, 2025. Image courtesy Ikon. Photo: David Rowan.
Collaborating with craftspeople from around the world, Lee incorporates traditional techniques into elegant works that engage the eyes and the imagination.
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