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An Occupation of Loss, Islington Green
An Occupation of Loss is a profound meditation on the universality of grief. How apt
Gillian Wearing interview: the former YBA on bringing the statue of Millicent Fawcett to Parliament Square
As the figure of the suffragist is unveiled, Wearing picks apart her work on the giant bronze. Interview by Waldemar Januszczak
Van Gogh & Japan, Van Gogh Museum. Amsterdam
The flowering of his genius: the buoyant Van Gogh & Japan show finally reveals what made the painter great
America’s Cool Modernism, Ashmolean, Oxford
America’s Cool Modernism at the Ashmolean brings together a mongrel selection of US painters and photographers. What a fascinating — and chaotic — bunch of strangers
Damien Hirst at Houghton Hall; Hannah Rose Thomas at the Houses of Parliament
Damien Hirst’s cocky show at Houghton Hall is unmissable — his new work lords it over this superb house with style
Joan Jonas at Tate Modern and Yuko Shiraishi at Annely Juda Fine Art
Joan Jonas’s work shines a light in the gloom of Tate Modern’s basement
Tacita Dean, National Portrait Gallery and National Gallery
You can’t escape Tacita Dean’s work in the capital this spring. Why?
Picasso 1932 — Love, Fame, Tragedy at Tate Modern
Tate Modern’s revelatory Picasso exhibition shows how his muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, inspired him to stretch the possibilities of art
Tracey Emin on parties, post-menopausal solitude and her return to Margate
“Going home is one of the most humble things you can do”.