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  • Beryl Cook: Pride and Joy

    Loved by the public for her colourful and humorous paintings of people enjoying themselves, she was nonetheless derided by critics. This rich exhibition marking the centenary of Cook’s birth suggests it is time to reassess her work

  • Catalyst: Art as Activism

    Encompassing four solo shows this exhibition challenges our views on climate change, disability, identity and migration. Studio International spoke to artists Eilidh Appletree, Taraneh Dana, Kasia Oleskiewicz and Molly Wickett at Summerhall Arts in Edinburgh the day before the show…

  • Takesada Matsutani: Shifting Boundaries, and Tetsumi Kudo: Microcosmos

    A pair of exhibitions by two Japanese innovators show contrasting approaches to the plastic revolution of the late 20th century

  • Cosmos: The Art of Observing Space

    Hard science meets soaring imaginations in a show brimming with cosmologically inspired artworks

  • Paper Tiger Television: It’s 8:30. Do you know where your brains are?

    A poignant exhibition takes us to a lost age of anti-corporate, earnestly intellectual media – with some lessons for today

  • Don McCullin: Broken Beauty

    This exhibition spans 50 years, from the now 90-year-old photographer’s gruelling 1960s and 70s pictures of poverty at home and wars and famine abroad to his haunting shots of rural Somerset and his latest project, photographs of ancient Roman statues

  • People Watching

    Bringing together the best of two brilliant collections, this exhibition celebrates modern British portraiture in all its many guises

  • Hito Steyerl: Humanity Had the Bullet Go in Through One Ear and Out Through the Other

    The much-garlanded German artist-essayist Hito Steyerl turns her penetrating gaze to AI, automata and Amazon click work

  • Laura Lima – interview

    Lima’s installation The Drawing Drawing at the ICA is delightfully disorienting, with the model and the artists – the audience – orbiting one another on mechanised platforms. The artist talks about why she sees her work as conceptual art rather…

  • Christina Mackie: Material Reality

    Through a series of installations, which can be read and reread on multiple levels, Mackie questions how we look at and understand the world, through art, science and technology