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...

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...

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...

DEATHTRIPPING at The Garage, Birmingham

DEATHTRIPPING 18 – 19 February The Garage presents… DEATHTRIPPING – a festival of trash film and performance curated by Bernadette Louise. The programme features seminal video works from experimental filmmakers Nick Zedd and Richard Kern alongside live performance from the legendary Lydia Lunch. Presented across two days (18-19 February), DEATHTRIPPING journeys into the radical manifesto of the...

Postcards From Japan: A Message From Tohoku Artists at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

Postcards From Japan – A Message From Tohoku Artists 15 February – 22 April 2012 Ikon presents Postcards From Japan – A Message From Tohoku Artists, an exhibition marking the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit north east Japan on 11 March 2011. In the aftermath of the disaster, electronic means of communication largely failed, making the use of landlines, mobile phones and...

Sarah Browne: How to Use Fool’s Gold at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

Sarah Browne How to Use Fool’s Gold 15 February – 22 April 2012 Ikon presents How to Use Fool’s Gold, the first UK solo exhibition of works by Dublin-based artist Sarah Browne. Browne uses ‘the economy’ as the basis for her practice, a metaphor for contemporary politics. Often working with small communities of people, she reflects and documents such resourceful forms of exchange as gifting, subsistence,...