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...

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...

No Jokes Please; We’re Italian: New Works by Stefano Mezzaroma

The Italian Cultural Institute in London will host an exhibition of work by contemporary, Milan-based artist Stefano Mezzaroma. The Minister of Culture in Rome has endorsed the exhibition, entitled No Jokes Please; We’re Italian, to promote to a British audience the best in Italian contemporary culture. His work blends fine and urban art techniques while weaving a social commentary which embodies the notion of the...

Christian Tagliavini at Diemar/Noble Photography, London – ENDS Tomorrow

‘Tomorrow , Saturday 4th February is the final day of this extraordinary exhibition by Christian Tagliavini at  Diemar/Noble Photography, London. I saw his work at ParisPhoto 2011 and the detail and quality of the prints were exquisite. At times, however, I was left with the feeling of ‘style over content’ when looking at these prints. Yet the beauty of the work is undeniably seductive and...

DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture at Tate Liverpool

Carol Ann Duffy response to the  DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture was to write a new sonnet entitled POETRY that is integrated within this exciting exhibition. Carol Ann Duffy has constructed an installation that asks visitors to involve themselves with the display by re-arranging the words of the sonnet, thereby creating an original and unlimited poem. Tate Liverpool has collaborated with world renowned hat...

Zarina Bhimji at the Whitechapel Gallery

The Whitechapel Gallery presents the first major UK survey of British photographer, film-maker and installation artist Zarina Bhimji. The exhibition traces the development of her work over the last 25 years and premieres her new film, Yellow Patch (2011), inspired by trade and immigration routes across the Indian Ocean between India and Africa. Bhimji, who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2007, creates...

The Photographers Gallery opens 19 May 2012

The Photographers’ Gallery will unveil its new home for international and British photography in the heart of London’s Soho on Saturday 19 May 2012. The Gallery’s opening will mark the conclusion of its ambitious £8.9 million capital campaign, which has been generously supported by Arts Council England’s Lottery Fund alongside a range of Trusts, Foundations, corporates and individuals. The renowned...

Lygia Pape Magnetized Space ends soon at the Serpentine Gallery

Lygia Pape (1927-2004) was a leading Brazilian artist whose work brought together formal rigour and daring experimentation. In her own words, she explained her approach: ‘My concern is always invention. I always want to invent a new language that’s different for me and for others, too… I want to discover new things. Because, to me, art is a way of knowing the world… to see how the world...

Andrea Zittel – Lay of My Land opens 10 February at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art is showing a major exhibition of the work by the American artist Andrea Zittel. Born in Escondido, California in 1965, Zittel received a BFA in painting and sculpture from San Diego State University in 1988 and an MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990. She began her practice in New York in the early 1990s and established A-Z East, a small house in Brooklyn...

Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady at James Hyman Photography London

To coincide with the UK premiere of Meryl Streep’s portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the new movie, The Iron Lady, James Hyman Photography spotlights Helmut Newton’s iconic portrait of Margaret Thatcher. This famous photograph is widely considered to be Newton’s greatest portrait as well as the greatest portrait ever taken of Margaret Thatcher. This picture is in an edition of just three, but only...