An army of lifesize figures are scattered across some 300 acres of the landscaped grounds at Houghton Hall in Norfolk
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Forty years after the calling of the miner’s strike, Milton Rogovin’s photographs of Scottish miners shows how much the UK’s industrial landscape has changed
At Fruitmarket Gallery, the artist takes a defunct railway built by the British in Ghana in the 1920s as his starting point
As part of its bicentenary celebrations, the National Gallery in London has sent a painting by Vermeer to Edinburgh to keep another work by the artist company
The Scottish conceptual artist who is not afraid to make fun of the art world has an 80th birthday show at Modern One
The Mexican artist, known for his woven works that borrow from folk-art traditions, listens to Bach and Rosalía while working in his studio in Colonia Roma, Mexico City
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The artist’s new film installation at MACBA is inspired by Bizet’s Carmen and themes of performance, death and tragedy
The artist has been at the forefront of activist art in Britain for half a century, as this exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery attests
