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The exhibition ‘Pertaining to Things Natural..’, a display of art works by 20 leading artists, is closing on 31 October. The show is set in the stunning surroundings of the Chelsea Physic Garden, London, the city’s oldest botanic garde...

‘Fireflies on the Water’ 
 closes October 28 Yayoi Kusama’s depictions of seemingly endless space have been a central focus of her artistic career. Kusama’s Fireflies on the Water (2002) – with its carefully cons...

Karsten Schubert is showing Mel Bochner’s Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art (1966) together with some recent works, until 2 November. The Karsten Schubert gallery is open Monday ...

24 October–6 November ‘Richard Artschwager!’, a retrospective highlighting the artist's unique exploration of sculpture, painting, and drawing, is now open at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art. Associated ...

The Whitney Presents the Eighth Annual Annenberg Lecture: Sarah Sze in Conversation with Adam D. Weinberg Monday, 5 November at 
7 p.m. Since the late 1990s, Sarah Sze has created remarkable sculptural installations, wall reliefs, and work...

Deadline approaches for aspiring street artists' chance to join the industry’s biggest names at See No Evil 2013. 

 Deadline for submissions: midnight 26 October 

 Winner announced: 1 November 2012 From 13–19 Augus...

New York artist FAILE has unveiled a new sculpture that has been designed to speak to the future of Mongolia. Entitled Wolf Within , the 5 metre fibreglass creation was unveiled last week at National Garden Park, a new 1650 acre project in the heart of...

21 September 2012 – 24 February 2013 Wandsworth Museum presents ‘Painting Wandsworth’, an exhibition of more than 60 fascinating local watercolours from its extensive collection. Historic scenes from across the borough of Wandsw...

A makeshift hairdressing salon and life-sized falling dominoes feature in part two of 'I Is AnOther' – a New Art Exchange, Nottingham, exhibition exploring issues surrounding contemporary notions of identity by celebrating Jamaica’s ...

‘Welsh Landscapes: From Turner to Long’, opening at the award-winning Lightbox gallery and museum in Woking, Surrey on 23 October 2012, showcases works from Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales’ outstanding collection. ...

For the last few months of his life, Richard Hamilton was working with the National Gallery, London, on an exhibition of his own work. With Hamilton’s fairly sudden death last September, aged 89, the plans for this had a setback and the scope of t...

25 October – 3 December 2012 Other Criteria is presenting a new series of sculptural works by Marcus Harvey , to be launched at their New Bond Street gallery on 25 October 2012 . Harvey’s sculptures are assembled of cast archa...

British sculptor, Tony Cragg is exhibiting work at the Science Museum until 25 November 2012. Five major new outdoor sculptures have taken over Exhibition Road and six indoor works are on display at the V&A, the Science Museum and the Natural Histor...

Edvard Munch’s iconic The Scream (1895), among the most celebrated and widely recognized images in art history, will be on view at MoMA for a period of six months beginning on 24 October. A haunting image of a hairless figure on a bridge und...

Rare and never-before-seen videogame art to be showcased by Ukie and the Mayor of London A free week-long exhibition showcasing the very best videogame art is to be held at City Hall next week. Kicking off at midday on Monday 22 October and ...

Distinctive jewellery helps support children through adversity Inspired by the charity Young Pioneers which has helped over 6,000 vulnerable children in the past four years, Wild Ivy Jewellery has created a beautiful collection of Italian Murano...

Wednesday 17 October 2012 Dorotheum , Palais Dorotheum, Dorotheergasse 17, 1010 Vienna, Austria If you have a few million euros to spare, Vienna is the place to spend them on 17 October. ...

An Evening with Justin Webb at the American Museum in Britain, at Bath Sunday 28 October, 6 pm Tickets: £25 per person / £20 per American Museum Member Refreshments included. Seating is limited so please book early. ...

An exhibition of recent paintings 10 October to 3 November 2012 Bernard Jacobson Gallery 6 Cork Street London, W1S 3NX Bruce McLean has been investigating the condition of sculpture since the late 1960s creatively interrogatin...

'Peter Lely: A Lyrical Vision' 11 October 2012 to 13 January 2013 The Courtauld Institute of Art Somerset House Strand London WC2R 0RN This exhibitio...

Dulwich Picture Gallery is working with NADFAS (National Association for the Decorative and Fine Art Societies) London Young Arts to offer a rare opportunity for 16–18 year olds who are passionate about art. In a completely free-of-charge inte...

The Palazzo’s recently restored cellars, traditionally known as ‘ La Strozzina ’, are Palazzo Strozzi’s main platform for contemporary culture, hosting a broad range of events, activities and exhibitions representing the entire s...

A reliquary is 'A receptacle, such as a coffer or shrine, for keeping or displaying sacred relics'. bo.lee gallery presents the mixed media findings of intrepid explorer Duncan Cameron and introduces an artist new to the gallery, A...

‘Painting: Pulled, Stretched, Revealed’ presents three artists who push beyond the traditional limits of painting by manipulating the canvas, delving beyond the image and exploring the processes of the medium. Alexis Harding’s techniqu...

Regency Society Weekend, a celebration in Brighton about society in the time of the Prince Regent is next weekend, 12–14 October 2012. The Prince Regent’s love of Brighton remains its mixed legacy today. How come the amazing Royal P...

2012 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize has been awarded to an architectural consortium for the restoration of Hizuchi Elementary School, one of Japan’s most representative modern buildings. Bonnie Burnham, president of World Monumen...

Not many can say they've put pencil to paper under the watchful eyes of Chaim Soutine's La Soubrette (Waiting Maid).... Perhaps you have been intrigued by Cassone 's recent article about this work. On 11 and 18 October, you get th...

'Bedlam', a new show presented by Lazarides Gallery in association with HTC 9 – 21 October 2012 Following the success of Hell’s Half Acre in 2010 and Minotaur in 2011, Lazarides Gallery and The Old Vic Tunnels will join art...

Some of the top grandmasters in the world have visited ‘The Art of Chess’ exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery to play a quick game on chess sets made by some of the world’s leading contemporary artists. Today, Wednesday 3 October, is the...

Yes, not content with animals sawn in half and suspended in formaldehyde, Damien Hirst has gone even further to surprise us and made a rug - or indeed a number of rugs. On view at Other Criteria, 14 Hinde Street, London W1U 3BG, from 11 October to 15 No...

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation launches We the People exhibition and We the People TV. A Portrait of the American Populace to coincide with the 2012 Presidential Election. 'We the People' Curated by Alison Gingeras a...

‘Unforeseen’, an exhibition of new paintings by Callum Innes at Dublin’s Kerlin Gallery ends Saturday 13 October. 
Callum Innes makes work in a number of different ways, all of which are evolving simultaneously. He shifts fro...

World Monuments Fund's ‘World Monuments Watch Day,’ celebrates heritage sites across the globe. Events highlight the importance of cultural heritage sites to local communities. World Monuments Fund (WMF) runs ‘ World M...

What do you get when you mix 31 artists, three counties and artistic collaboration? A festival of ideas and inspiration entitled Regrouping. ‘Regrouping’ is the latest show from art and culture champions BendInTheRiver. The show &ndas...