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Borderlands: Alex Niven on Harry Lawson’s Stepney Western

At Newcastle Contemporary Art gallery, an exhibition featuring a new film by Harry Lawson plus archival photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck, Chris Killip, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Tish Murtha and others, draws links between the fabled American West and England’s North-East

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Beryl Cook, Tom of Finland & The Horny Complexity of the Bisexual Gaze

The ribald, hot and at times hilarious art of Tom of Finland and British artist Beryl Cook are currently part of a joint exhibition at London's Studio Voltaire. In an essay originally presented as an reading at the gallery, Luke Turner explores how their work relates to the assumptions, fantasies and at times harsh realities of his bisexual identity.

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The Future Is Birkenhead: Cultural Regeneration On The Wirral Peninsula

With a trail being blazed by innovative venues and galleries like Future Yard and Convenience Gallery, one former shipbuilding town on the south bank of the Mersey may well be on the verge of a moment, finds Kenn Taylor

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The Right Stuff: An Interview With Mike Nelson

British artist and two time Turner nominee, Mike Nelson builds worlds within worlds. A few weeks back, he spoke to Robert Barry about time, tourism, and stuff

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Dig it: Mining The Deep Horizons Show In Middlesbrough

John Quin burrows away at a collaborative show in MIMA featuring work by Martin Creed, Theaster Gates, Hannah Rullmann and Faiza Ahmad Kahn

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Oskar Kokoschka: Europe’s Most Successful Self-Portrait Artist?

Before it moved to the Guggenheim in Bilbao in March, Jelena Sofronijevic caught the blockbuster Oskar Kokoschka show at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, finding a show whose curation suits its subject more than it suits the facts

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Workers Of The World: Harun Farocki Leaves The Factory

Riffing on the Lumière's pioneering early film, Harun Farocki looks at labour through the lens of cinema

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Curious Digressions: The Sensuous Sci-Fi Of Apparatus 22

In shows at Bucharest’s SUPRAINFINIT Gallery and an ongoing series of domestic interventions, Romanian collective Apparatus 22 offer a more intimate approach to the vexed question of art and artificial intelligence, finds Andra Amber Nikolayi

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Another Eden: The Phantom Threads Of Billie Zangewa

A Quiet Fire, the debut UK show by Malawi-born artist Billie Zangewa at Brighton CCA, weaves a thought-provoking web for John Quin

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Ways Of Voicing: Sonia Boyce Is Devoted To These Singers

In a remarkable collaboration with Tanita Tikaram, Errollyn Wallen, Poppy Ajudha, Tanita Tikaram, Sofia Jernberg and Jacqui Dankworth, Golden Lion winner and Royal Academician Sonia Boyce celebrates the voices of women of colour

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Many Infinities: The Vital Canvases of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

To get a handle on Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's paintings, turn off the audio guide and turn up the music, finds Poppy Richler

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Strong Silent Type: Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt Configures Language, Art & Politics

An enigmatic East German artist used a typewriter and stamps to quietly disrupt the boundaries of poetry and graphic design. Geoff Cowart travelled to Potsdam to examine her creative disobedience and find out why she quit

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Top Of The Pots: Oliver Beer Draws Music From Ceramics

Froma a 3rd century Roman cup to a brand new Edmund de Waal Pot, Oliver Beer finds a pitch in every pot. Will Jennings listens in

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Fever Technique: The Spectral Photography Of Francine Winham

British photographer Francine Winham shot groundbreaking images of Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Nina Simone, but the influence she had on the people closest to her may still be her most important legacy, argues Ian Opolot

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Sound & Vision: Broken Music Vol. 2 Explores Records By Artists

A little over three decades after Ursula Block's first exhibition of artists' vinyl records, a new show at Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof looks at 70 years of records and sound works by artists

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Figure In A Landscape: The Paintings Of Patrick Procktor

An exhibition in Bologna sheds new light on one of the forgotten heroes of modern British art

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Still Lives: Hannah Starkey’s Pictures Of Women

The Hepworth in Wakefield stages an impressive mid-career show from an artist whose images invite narratives without a trace of theatricality, finds John Quin

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Things Fall Apart: Mona Hatoum Builds The Impossible

A large sculpture by the London-based Lebanon-born artist poses some lofty questions about our precarious and unsteady existence, finds Geoff Cowart

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Afraid Of The Dark: Horror At Somerset House

From the outrageous to the grotesque, The Horror Show currently on view at Somerset House features melon-twisting work by Anne Bean, Laura Grace Ford, Jeremy Millar and others

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The Stands Of Time: Casual Culture On Display

An exhibition at Walker Art Centre explores The Art of the Terraces, through work by Steve Randall, Jamie Holman, Satch Hoyt and others

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The Rhythm Of The Night: An Interview With Marcel Dzama

With a show of new works currently on view at David Zwirner, Marcel Dzama talks to Amah-Rose Abrams about childhood reveries, lockdown rhythms, and his grandma’s love for the Queen

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Collectors’ Editions: The Curious World Of Box Art

Featuring more than a hundred artists from twenty-one different countries, Tom Buchanan’s *Out of the Box* celebrates the significance of objects and the lost art of collecting. Here, the author talks us through eight of its subjects, including Richard Johnson, Nancy Fouts, and Mohamed Hafez