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...

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...

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...

David Shrigley: Brain Activity – Hayward Gallery, London

This February, the Hayward Gallery will present the first major survey in the UK of works by David Shrigley. Spanning the upper galleries, David Shrigley: Brain Activity, will cover the full range of Shrigley’s diverse practice from the past two decades of the artist’s career, including drawing, animation, painting, photography, taxidermy and sculpture. The exhibition will feature some 175 works,...

Van Dyck in Sicily: Painting and the Plague 1624-25 at the Dulwich Picture Library

Dulwich Picture Gallery presents Van Dyck in Sicily: Painting and the Plague, the first ever exhibition to focus on the prolific year and a half that Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) spent in Sicily between 1624 and 1625. The exhibition reunites for the first time the 16 works, all portraits and paintings of religious subjects, that are documented, or believed to have been painted during that year in Palermo. The...

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...