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Tally Beck Contemporary Presents New LED Work
 by Shanghai Collective island6, 25
 January – 11 March 2012 Opening Reception Wednesday, 25 January to Celebrate Chinese New Year, 42 Rivington Street
. New York, New York 10012 ...

Christie’s host Generation Y – an innovative loan exhibition showcasing works of art from the collections of 30 young collectors Christie’s is currently presenting a group of free, public exhibitions dedicated to the t...

A new mixed exhibition on two floors at the Quest Gallery until 8 March A new exhibition at the Quest Gallery, Bath, features a wide range of fine and applied arts ranging over two floors. ‘Water in Landscapes’ features ...

You have only five more days to see Yinka Shonibare, MBE's Nelson's Ship in a Bottle before it is removed from public display in Trafalgar Square. This is your chance to help save an important sculpture by one of Britain's leading co...

25 January – 18 March 2012 Wojciech Bakowski, Anna Molska, Agnieszka Polska The Forgetting of Proper Names is a two‐month season that focuses on Poland’s vibrant contemporary art and culture, and explores the way th...

Second Floor Studio & Arts (SFSA) is a recent project combining studios for artists with the availability of state-of-the-art printmaking facilities and communal café areas. See Rosalind Ormiston’s account in our January issue. ...

‘Alice in Wonderland’ at Liverpool’s Tate gallery is a magical exploration of the world created by the Victorian mathematician and photographer, Charles Dodgson – better known as Lewis Carroll. The show closes on 29 January but t...

Monday 30 January 2012, 7.30 p.m. Ben Zweig (Boston University), Suicide, that mysterious and unknowable death, provided ample fodder for the mediaeval imagination. Then as now, suicide both attracted and repelled. It stirred the imagination and...

Whitney Museum of American Art, 
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
 until 12 February This exhibition presents Three Landscapes, a little-known triple screen film installation by Roy Lichtenstein, unseen since its showing at the Los Angel...

British curators invited to develop museum collections with world class objects of contemporary craft The Art Fund and the Crafts Council have today launched the fifth Art Fund Collect, the £75,000 scheme that offers UK museums the chance ...

A retrospective view of Lucian Freud’s life over the past 12 years is covered in an exhibition of photographs by David Dawson to be held at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, 38 Bury Street, St James’s, London SW1Y 6BB from Monday 30 January to Friday...

Tate is delighted to announce the appointment of Colombian curator José Roca (b.1962) as the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art. The post, which reflects Tate’s continuing commitment to broadening the geographical s...

In 1959 the Civic Trust established its own architectural and built environment awards scheme to recognize the very best in architecture, urban design, planning, landscape, public realm and public art. Over 50 buildings have been shortlisted for the 201...

Signed print limited edition of 100 in aid of Haworth Bronte Church Fund Artist, Stella Vine has created a Limited Edition Giclée Print of the Brontë sisters, ‘Charlotte, Emily and Anne’ with 100% profit&rsquo...

Rosalind Ormiston visits ‘NUDE’, a spectacular installation on display in London only until 22 January On display for a limited period ‘NUDE’ is an interactive sculpture installation created by the prize-winning artist Ev...

The art of printmaking is being celebrated in a new exhibition opening next week at the University of Kent’s Studio 3 Gallery. The University is collaborating with the Royal College of Art (RCA) to host 'Double Take – The Art of Pr...

Wherever you are, there should be an interesting exhibition within striking distance. Let us know about interesting shows near where you are so that we can let others know about them. If possible, we will arrange for one of our reviewers to visit. ...

For this weekend only, Phaidon are offering discounts of up to 75 per cent on many of their titles. Books such as Marco Livingstone’s Kitaj , Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer’s Théodore Géricault , Jonathan Clarkson’s ...

20 January – 25 February 2012 Kozo is an exhibition of works on handmade Japanese echizen kozo washi paper using techniques including dyed paper pulp poured into moulds and gouache paint on paper made by the artist. Richard Gorman made th...

A new patron of the arts has emerged in the shape of the Corinthia Hotel London, which has now appointed its first artist in residence. During her one-month residency at Corinthia the winning artist, Noemie Goudal, will create a collection of work to be...

British design is second to none in many areas, and this is true of fine textiles, which have been manufactured in the UK for centuries. Now, West Sussex company Heirlooms Ltd has had the quality of its bespoke fine linens recognized through a much-cove...

The Museum of London’s Archaeological Archive and Research Centre (LAARC) celebrates 10 years with a series of hands-on events at the Museum of London from January 16 to 23 March 2012. Last year, the LAARC won the prestigious Museums and Heritag...

Back in August we told you about Separation and Silence’, a temporary exhibition at the Wandsworth Museum. This was due to close at the end of December but has been so successful that it has been extended til 12 February. Wandsworth Prison is the ...

Quest Gallery’s new year exhibition continues all this week until this Saturday, 14 January. The gallery is known for exhibiting a wide range of contemporary fine and applied arts, and this week you can see the artists on display and remind yo...

This major work by David Smith is a gift from the Lipman Family Foundation Stainless-steel sculpture, on view through January 8 in Whitney exhibition ‘David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy’ Storm King Art Center and the Whitney Muse...

Sacred Word and Image: Five World Religions , an exhibition that opened on 4 January 2012 at Phoenix Art Museum, features the written word and painted image as expressed in the cultures of Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Christianity throughou...

January 7 to February 4, 2012 
Reception: Wednesday, January 11, 6–8p.m. School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents ‘It’s All in Your Head’, an exhibition featuring work by fourth-year students in the BFA Visual &...

Eve Arnold, the American photographer and photojournalist, has died in London at the age of 99. She photographed such historic figures as Queen Elizabeth II, Malcolm X, Jackie Kennedy and, perhaps most famously, Marilyn Monroe. Eve Arnold published a nu...

A new innovative touring exhibition, Transmitter/Receiver: The Persistence of Collage from the Arts Council Collection is to go on show at The Lightbox gallery and museum in Woking, Surrey, 18 January – 25 March 2012, admission free. Transmitt...

Whitney Wees: Faces and Feelings For families with children aged 4–5 Even the youngest art aficionados know that artists often say it with feeling! In these sessions , the children will look at the expressions and emotions on view...

In January’s Cassone we have an interview by Jenny Kingsley with Canon Mark Oakley of St Paul' s on contemporary art at the cathedral, where in the last few years Bill Viola (see video above of an excerpt from his work The Messenger ), ...

Written and edited by Antony Penrose An audio visual presentation for the Rifle Hall Trust Fund Lee Miller is thought to be the only woman combat photographer with the allied infantry in Europe during the Second World War. This presentation ...

18,000 new Members help the Art Fund to place £18.5 million worth of art in UK museum collections Membership of the UK’s national fundraising charity, the Art Fund, has increased by 15% in 2011 to just fewer than 90,000 memb...

The newly installed Tiffany Drinking Fountain brings music to London’s Royal Parks to welcome in the New Year The Royal Parks Foundation ceremoniously greets the arrival of a notable New Year in the British calendar, with the launch of t...

Thursday 12 January –Sunday 15 April 2012 Quentin Blake is one of Britain’s best-loved and most successful illustrators. Well known for illustrating stories by Roald Dahl, Blake was Britain’s first Children’s Laureate. Sh...

Dulwich Picture Gallery is marking the Queen’s Jubilee with its seventh impressive Contextual Lecture Series . The Jubilee Series will be launched on 3 January 2012 by Professor Lord Peter Hennessy on The Queen as a Heineken Lager Monarch: ...

‘Hamish Fulton: Walk’ 17 January 2012 – 7 May 2012 Turner Contemporary is presenting Hamish Fulton's first one-person show in a UK public gallery since 2002. The exhibition brings together works from the early 1970s to ...

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 from 28 January–13 May 2012. T...