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Imperial War Museum London partially re-opens with major new family exhibition Horrible Histories ® : Spies and a new art programme: IWM Contemporary Following a temporary closure to begin transformation works and build new Fir...

HUGO: RED NEVER FOLLOWS 31 July – 1 September HUGO celebrates its 20th anniversary with a unique exhibition featuring 20 contemporary artists at the Saatchi Gallery in London. In celebration of its 20th anniversary, HUGO will be pre...

In the first of a series of collaborations, Sir John Soane’s Museum (the first museum of architecture in the world) is showing a selection of the highlights from the newest architectural museum in Europe – Berlin’s Tchoban Foundation, ...

Following a unanimous verdict from the judges, the winner of the RIBA and Vauxhall One’s international design competition has been announced. London-based Erect Architecture and J&L Gibbons will now work with Vauxhall One to re-design the publ...

Birmingham Museums Trust and York Art Gallery are the latest organizations set to benefit from two new fully funded curatorial traineeships. These have been made possible through the National Gallery Curatorial Traineeship Programme supported by the Art...

Ashes and Diamonds Friday 26 July – Saturday 31 August 2013 The Outsiders Newcastle gallery presents a gala showcase of ‘Ashes and Diamonds’, an art exhibition by acclaimed painter Darren Coffield examining the miner’...

Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller is bringing Sacrilege , his life-size inflatable Stonehenge to East London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as part of Open East Festival. Festival visitors will also have the opportunity to meet and buy wo...

Robert Irwin in conversation 
 with Donna De Salvo Thursday, 25 July 
6.30 p.m. at the Whitney Museum of American Art On the occasion of the reinstallation of his formative work, Scrim veil—Black rectangle—Natural light, ...

A film has been made about some of the objects shown at the current Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) show of items from the career of David Bowie. The curators and others will discuss the stories behind some of the exhibits. It will be screened nati...

Curator Talk led by Evie Salmon: ‘The Birth of Cinema... and Beyond: An Exhibition of Painting and Video’ Thursday 25 July at 7 p.m. For Rosenfeld Porcini’s July edition of Fitzrovia Lates , curator and art historian Evie ...

Talk: Prints from the Masters; Henry Moore, Elisabeth Frink and Barbara Hepworth Recollections by Rosemary Simmons at the Quest Gallery, Bath On Saturday 27July at 5.00p.m. in the Quest Gallery you will have an opportunity to attend ...

It was the conundrum that baffled some of the greatest and most eccentric experts of the 18th century – and captivated the British public during an era of unprecedented scientific and technical transformation. Now, for the first time, the fu...

Nottingham Contemporary, 20 July - 22 September 2013 Nottingham Contemporary presents 'Aquatopia', a major exhibition of Contemporary and historic art about how the ocean depths have been imagined across cultures and through time. The exhi...

19 July – 1 September 2013 Immerse yourself in a 17th-century court masque at the Banqueting House This summer the Banqueting House on Whitehall will come to life with the sights and sounds of the masque, recreating the lavish ente...

Nature Reserves Curated by Tom Jeffreys Exhibition : 26 July until 13 September 2013 GV Art gallery, London, 49 Chiltern Street, Marylebone, London W1U 6LY ‘Nature Reserves’ is a new group exhibition curated by Tom...

‘Imagine that you could live in a different world. What would you want it to be like?’ asks Ralph Rugoff, director of the Hayward. He suggests that we might change how we measure time, or alter our cities, or the finality of death. With that...

'Caroline Walker – In Every Dream Home' PM Gallery & House Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing, London W5 5EQ 18 July – 8 September Cinematic scenes exploring relationships between people and architecture So...

'Poetry & Performance: Ida Applebroog, Henri Chopin, Gina Pane' From 18 July, Richard Saltoun Gallery is showing ‘ Poetry & Performance : Ida Applebroog, Henri Chopin & Gina Pane’. Each of the artists holds ...

The waiting is now over for a thousand photographers from around the world who entered this year’s Renaissance Photography Prize. Judges, including Nadav Kander, Brett Rogers from The Photographers’ Gallery and BJP editor Simon Bainbridge...

'Dot to Dot' From 16–20 July, Illustration graduates from the Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) will be bringing an innovative collection of contemporary work to The Rag Factory in Brick Lane, London. The show will feature a my...

Len Tabner: An Artist in his Element

 13 July–8 September 2013

 The work of one of the UK’s most important and influential landscape painters will feature across all three floors of Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, for the ...

In Washington DC this summer Honfleur Gallery and The Gallery at Vivid Solutions are presenting two solo exhibitions with local artists Steven M. Cummings and BK ADAMS•I AM ART . There will be a joint opening reception for both exhibitions on Fr...

‘Themeless/Contactless 3’ Group exhibition 19 June – 1 September 2013 Galery İlayda in Istanbul, Turkey, is currently showing ‘Themeless/Contactless 3’ , a group exhibition by 10 artists which ru...

Artist Carl McCrow's collection, ‘History Interrupted’, is exhibiting at Gallery@Oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf, South Bank, London, from Wednesday 10, to Sunday 14 July. McCrow decommissions and transforms AK47 guns into statement pieces th...

‘ Looking in:
 Photographic Portraits by Maud Sulter and Chan-Hyo Bae’ This is the first in a series of exhibitions at Ben Uri to explore themes of identity and migration
within contemporary art. The exhibition pairs photo...

My Dear Mr. Hopper – Author/curator presentation and book signing Date: Tuesday, July 16, 7-9 PM Elizabeth Thompson Colleary, curator of the contemporaneous 'My Dear Mr. Hopper: The Story Starts Here' exhibition in the...

'Observed and Made' Contemporary Ceramics from Joanna Veevers and Sasha Wardell 5 July – 31 August 2013 The De Morgan Centre will be welcoming two established ceramic artists this summer in a selling exhibitio...

Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street New York Screenings Tuesdays, 9, 16 and 23 July, 7 p.m. When not in the mood for painting, Edward Hopper (1882–1967) said, ‘I go to the movies for a week or m...

Robert Irwin: Scrim Veil – Black Rectangle – Natural Light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1977) Through September 1 ‘One of the most important artists of his generation’ – The New York Times ...

An overlooked intaglio (see image above) holds a vital clue in dating the world’s finest collection of Elizabethan and Early Stuart jewellery – The Cheapside Hoard. ‘The Cheapside Hoard: London’s Lost Jewels’ , Museu...

The UK will become the world’s largest art gallery when a unique exhibition, Art Everywhere, will transform thousands of poster sites and billboards into iconic artworks from the national collection, to be launched on 8 August 2013 . Art...

Titian’s Diana and Callisto , acquired for the nation in 2012, will be the subject of an exciting new National Gallery venture. Visitors to arts festivals this summer can step inside a mobile cinema truck, sit under a star-studded canopy and watc...

The Birth of Cinema…and Beyond An exhibition of painting and video 3 July – 21 September 2013 rosenfeld porcini 37 Rathbone Street London W1T 1NZ rosenfeld porcini is currently showing ‘The Birth of Ci...

Museum of London announces Sherlock Holmes exhibition in autumn 2014 ‘Which is it today? Morphine or cocaine?’ ‘It is cocaine. A seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?’ The subject of the Museu...

London’s weather may be somewhat dull this summer, but stepping into the peaceful atmosphere of the Mall Galleries allows one to escape into a world of sunshine and flowers. Maria Bell-Salter’s exuberant flower paintings bring us the light, ...