Chloe Dewe Mathews looks beneath the surface
The photographer’s austere images hint at natural disasters, nuclear horrors, and man-made monsters
Mike Nelson sets up camp in Walsall
At the New Art Gallery the artist remakes an old installation exploring migration and belonging in Europe
Posing for Martin Parr
The photographer’s foundation opens with pop-up portrait sessions and an exhibition of images of the West Midlands
Taking notes with Alec Soth
Soth’s photographs in ‘Sleeping by the Mississippi’ are beautiful and intriguing, but the stories behind them bring them to life
Enrique Metinides made an art out of looking at people looking at death
The photographer’s images of disaster combine grisly detail with gifted composition, and implicate the viewer as much as the gathering crowds at the scene
‘A poster has to be joyous’. The energy and enthusiasm of Willem Sandberg
The designer and director of the Stedelijk Museum had a remarkable life: don’t miss an opportunity to learn about him at the De La Warr Pavilion
Crumbs! Here’s a gallery full of somebody else’s seedy secrets
‘I began wasting my god-given talent drawing pictures of sexy women the way I liked ‘em’. An exhibition of R. Crumb’s work invites us all to become voyeurs
Art Imitating Life: Duane Hanson at the Serpentine
Hanson’s lifelike works are perfectly suited to a public gallery space in London’s main park
Thomas Struth in Israel and Palestine: a land shaped and scarred by religion
Everything in Struth’s shots seems to have taken on a level of aggression
Fun and Games: 15th annual Serpentine Pavilion revealed
The Serpentine unveils plans for its summer pavilion
The scars of war: ‘Conflict, Time, Photography’ at Tate
Tate’s exhibition aims not to shock, but to contemplate the lasting effects of conflict on the people and places affected
Review: Bernd and Hilla Becher at Sprüth Magers
An earnest girl in a Hackney pub once told me she was fascinated by motorway flyovers; ‘I just think they’re…
What happens when an artist wants to be anonymous?