Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan – Tate Modern from 28 February – 27 May 2012

One of the most influential Italian artists of the twentieth century, Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994) will be the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Modern in spring 2012. Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan will be the first large-scale retrospective of Boetti’s work to be held outside Italy in over a decade highlighting his often playful exploration of numeric, linguistic and classificatory systems, as well as his...

ARTIST ROOMS Martin Creed at Tate Liverpool 24 February – 27 May 2012

ARTIST ROOMS returns to Tate Liverpool in 2012, displaying seven important new works recently donated by Turner Prize winning artist Martin Creed (b 1968) jointly to Tate and National Galleries of Scotland for the ARTIST ROOMS Collection.  Creed’s work was not previously represented in ARTIST ROOMS and he is the first new contemporary artist to join the Collection since it was established in 2008. The artist has...

Migrations: Journeys into British Art – Tate Britain

Tate Britain presents an exhibition exploring how British art has been shaped by migration. Featuring artists from van Dyck, Whistler and Mondrian to Steve McQueen and Francis Alÿs, Migrations: Journeys into British Art traces not only the movement of artists, but the circulation of art and ideas. Beginning with works from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the exhibition shows that much British art from this...

Shilpa Gupta: Someone Else at the Arnolfini from Sat 3 Mar – Sun 22 Apr 2012

Shilpa Gupta creates artwork using a variety of media including video, objects, photography, sound and performances to examine such themes as desire, conflict, militarism, security, technology and human rights. Gupta’s application of technology in her works reveals her interest in how various media affect our understanding of the political realm. Considering technology as being an extension of body, mind and...

Sophy Rickett Rickett To The River showing at the Arnolfini from 3 March – 22 April 2012

Sophy Rickett’s new work To The River takes its inspiration from the Severn Bore – an amazing phenomenon of nature whereby a large tidal wave runs along the River Severn during the moon’s equinox. Rickett’s installation incorporates video and surround-sound audio, creating an immersive environment that portrays the anticipation of the crowd on the banks of the river at night awaiting the tidal...

Picasso and Modern British Art – Tate Britain

Tate Britain  stages the first exhibition to explore Pablo Picasso’s lifelong connections with Britain. Picasso and Modern British Art will examine Picasso’s evolving critical reputation here and British artists’ responses to his work. The exhibition will explore Picasso’s rise in Britain as a figure of both controversy and celebrity, tracing the ways in which his work was exhibited and collected here...

Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern

This exhibition will blow your mind. I saw a preview of the work on the culture show presented by Alastair Sooke and down to the Tate I did go. It did not disappoint and it proved again that art in the flesh is the only way to see art, so get yourself, if you can, to Tate Modern asap and in the meantime read on…. Yayoi Kusama’s (b.1929) pioneering work spans over six decades and this exhibition will highlight...

Polly Allen reviews David Hockney: A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy of Arts

You might better recognise this artist for his polished LA scenes of swimming pools and apartments, such as A Bigger Splash (1967), but the Royal Academy has managed to create a show that doesn’t contain a single one, choosing instead to focus on the vast genre of landscape. The title of this exhibition is nothing if not apt; Hockney’s work is produced on an ever-changing scale, but one that culminates...

Turner and the Elements showing now at Turner Contemporary, Margate

Ninety-five works by Britain’s best-loved painter, JMW Turner, many from Tate’s collection, will go on show in the major exhibition Turner and the Elements at Turner Contemporary in Margate until 13 May 2012. The exhibition, including a number of works featuring Margate and the north Kent coast, illustrates how his painting technique and the influence of the latest scientific and technological developments of...

Edward Burra ends 19 February at Pallant House Gallery

The Edward Burra exhibition at the wonderful Pallant House Gallery ends 19 February. So get down to Chichester you art lovers and enjoy the beautiful and eccentric work of a great British artist. Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, West Sussex,  presents the first major show for over 25 years of the work of Edward Burra (1905 – 1976), one of the most individual and celebrated British artists of the twentieth...