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Talks
This Frieze Week, Marina Abramović comes to London to talk candidly about her extraordinary life, career and pioneering performance art
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Walk through a career and a life story: It's time to celebrate one of the most radical abstract sculptors of our time
Things To Do
Ahead of START Art Fair, which spotlights fresh faces on the cutting-edge contemporary art scene, we round up the best things to do in Chelsea
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Love it or loathe it, you're getting the world's first selfie exhibition: Saatchi traces the act of self-portraiture, from the Old Masters to Instagram
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As we wait with baited breath for Rachel Whiteread's upcoming retrospective at Tate Britain, we round up the best female sculptors you've never heard of, but definitely should have
Interview
We caught up with contemporary collageist Robi Walters in his Soho studio to discuss his upcoming collaboration with Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge
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Bruce Nauman's sculptures, installations and video works are now on display in Tate Modern's ARTIST ROOMS series
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Things to do
The blockbuster exhibitions start to close in August, so it's time to start snooping around the best London galleries: here's our guide
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Tate's new exhibition of works by Turkish-born artist Fahrelnissa Zeid places one of the 20th century's most important female artists back in the spotlight
Must See
Don't let the best shows on in London remain well-kept secrets: these are the shows galleristas are flocking to this week
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Visual Arts
At 96, Wayne Thiebaud is as sweet as ever: savour the first UK solo exhibition of his work spanning the past 50 years
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Visual Arts
Stephen Friedman Gallery kicks off its summer season with two exhibitions exploring radical approaches to painting over the last fifty years
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Pace Gallery showcases the starkly geometric work of American sculptor Joel Shapiro
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Portraits of the artists: Whitechapel Gallery's first ISelf Collection exhibition, including Self-Portrait as the Billy-Goat, explores how leading international artists depict their selfhood
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Feminist artists Renate Bertlmann and Maria Lassnig are re-examined in a refreshing new light at Sotheby's S2
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Corrida de toros, mythology and an ancient Iberian bloodlust – this London show places Picasso in the context of the land of his birth
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A solo exhibition of multi-media works by conceptual artist Ashley Bickerton makes waves at Damien Hirst’s London gallery.
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Gilbert & George, Joseph Beuys and Oliver Beers form a triple whammy as the iconic Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac opens a London outpost in Mayfair
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A young LA- and NY-based photo sensation takes on America's bigotry and racism in the heart of Mayfair
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White Cube Gallery presents the unsettling work of Munich-born artist Jürgen Partenheimer
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Enjoy iconic photographer Cecil Beaton's most influential images on display at Beetles & Huxley
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Visual Arts
Swedish artist Emanuel Almborg's latest exhibition, Learning Matter, offers a fresh perspective towards the oldest machines: the human body
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Visual Arts
Trompe l’oeil, graffiti, birds and myth: British artist Mat Collishaw presents The Centrifugal Soul at Blain|Southern
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Dynamic canvases come to both Victoria Miro galleries: Madrid artist Secundino Hernández continues his love affair with gesture and form
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Visual Arts
New works by American artist Richard Tuttle: The Critical Edge gathers pieces in fabric from the king of textiles
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The biggest names in late 20th-century and contemporary American art come to the British Museum, including Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha and Kara Walker
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Reconstructing history at White Cube Bermondsey: Josiah McElheny's 'Crystal Land' contemplates art, science, information and materiality
Must See
February London art highlights include an overlooked Bloomsbury Group sensation, an American extravaganza at the Royal Academy and a once-in-a-lifetime retrospective of our greatest living painter
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Long live the sisterhood - all-female Whitechapel exhibition showcases photography and video work from Marina Abramović, Nan Goldin and many more
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Jules de Balincourt, Hernan Bas, Marc Chagall, Alice Neel, Celia Paul, Grayson Perry, Cy Twombly: a constellation of stars come to Victoria Miro
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Pour me a Polke: Germany's most influential post-war painter-photographer comes to Mayfair
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Scottish artist Charles Avery presents the latest instalment of his epic eleven year project, The Islanders