On the eve of her first major UK show, she talks race, representation and the human spirit that unites us
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At Spike Island, Bristol, the artist captures the flux of queer existence in collages of gender non-conforming figures throughout time
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Blending science and the supernatural, high art and gothic horror, Hamad Butt made work that was literally dangerous. He is one of the stars of Tate Britain’s rehang
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At Tate Britain, the artist known for sumptuous works on fraught subjects like racism and homophobia finally receives a career retrospective in his own country.
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The British painter is still in his studio, 365 days a year. In a late turn to self-portraiture, he has turned his scrutiny on himself.
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By infiltrating Securitas, Disneyland and Deloitte, Pilvi Takala’s art thrives on creating toe-curlingly awkward situations
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Twenty years on from the Iraq War, Tim Shaw RA tells Elizabeth Fullerton about his new public monument reminding us of the horrors of conflict
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The artist’s interest in esoteric spirituality used to provoke art-world ridicule. That is changing, along with the mind of a Foreign Office staffer who attended one of her performances
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Born in Bradford but raised in Bangladesh, Matthew Krishanu paints children playing on swings, seesaws and climbing frames to makes subtle points about race, empire and excluded faces
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“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses,” said Susan Sontag in her 1973 book On Photography. The late Spanish artist Juan Genovés did both in his powerful political paintings that draw on photography and film techniques to point up state atrocities of the Franco era.
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