Louisa Buck

Louisa Buck is the contemporary art correspondent at The Art Newspaper

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Three to see: beyond London

Do time in Oscar Wilde’s Reading jail, self-reflect with Maria Lassnig in Liverpool before seeing the light in Cambridge with illuminated manuscripts <br> <br>

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William Kentridge: an animated life

As a major show and opera come to London, the South African artist reflects on his multimedia installations’ disparate influences, from his homeland’s politics to Wallace and Gromit

Ragnar Kjartansson finds a home from home in the Barbican

Icelandic artist's London show opens this week in venue he has loved since childhood<br>

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Ragnar Kjartansson: New Romantic

As a major show of his work opens at London’s Barbican, the Icelandic artist discusses his fascination with Romanticism and explains why he gets his mother to spit in his face every five years

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Michael Landy gets creatively destructive in Basel’s Tinguely Museum

The British artist shares the Swiss kinetic sculptor’s love of jumble and junk

Six shows to see during Art Basel

Alleviate your fair-tigue with these exhibitions in and around the Swiss city