A rendering for James Turrell’s 2013 installation ‘Aten Reign’ ©James Turrell VISUAL ARTS 6:23pm

Interview: James Turrell

The American artist who has made light his medium talks to Jonathan Griffin as he prepares for this summer’s triumvirate of retrospectives

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The latest from the film festival – and our critic’s Palme D’Or favourite

‘Lionboy’, the new stage production from Complicite ©Sarah Ainslie THEATRE & DANCE 6:22pm

It’s all in the imagination

Founders Annabel Arden and Simon McBurney talk about what is next for Complicite’s visionary theatre as it marks 30 years

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Man of steel

Ahead of his Venetian retrospective, Anthony Caro tells Rachel Spence about abstraction, sculpting metal and why he is now embracing Perspex

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See and be seen

The Vatican hopes to reunite art and faith with its debut at the Biennale

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Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Sex Obsession, Phallic Bowl’, (1965), at Art Basel Hong Kong

Basel brand hits HK; one fair in, one fair out in California; massive deflation for sculpture

John Zorn ©Patrick Essex MUSIC 6:23pm

Screams, vamps and a malevolent hiss

An epic performance by John Zorn was only one of the highlights at Moers this year

Atticus Finch (Robert Sean Leonard) with daughter Scout ©Alastair Muir THEATRE & DANCE 6:37pm

To Kill a Mockingbird, Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, London

Robert Sean Leonard is in the kind of role that has been his strong suit since youth: quiet but resolute on the side of right

El Anatsui with ‘Tsiatsia – Searching for Connection’ at the Royal Academy ©James Royall VISUAL ARTS 6:44pm

Full metal façade

Ghanaian artist El Anatsui has given the venerable Royal Academy a summer makeover

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LSO/Gergiev, Barbican, London

At 60, Valery Gergiev shows no sign of exchanging the fast lane for the slow

'Bródno People' (2010) by Paweł Althamer and others VISUAL ARTS May 21, 2013

Expo 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York

Fragments of this creative explosion are scattered across the city

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