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2 January to 2 February on the London Arts Board Part of a series looking at the fundamental elements of painting, Jessica Dally’s beautiful assemblages reduce the key elements of a painting down to wood, paint, canvas threads or nails, By...

Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life Free admission. Exhbition is on until 9 March 2014. The Royal College of Art’s Creative Exchange (CX) Hub has collaborated with Liverpool’s Foundation for Art and Creative Technology...

For the past three years Tate Britain, built in 1897 and designed by patron Henry Tate’s favourite architect Sidney R.J. Smith (1858–1913), has been undergoing a stunning transformation. Original architectural features have been restored and...

In June of this year we featured an interview between Janet Stiles Tyson and Graham Beal, the British-born director of the embattled Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). The citizens of Detroit love DIA so much they voted to pay extra taxes to support it,...

For two centuries Japan’s self-imposed isolation led it to develop an etiquette and behaviour surrounding sex distinctly different not just from that of the West but also from that of its nearest Asian neighbours. The British Museum, founded to sh...

3 December 2013–25 January 2014 A wide range of fine and applied arts have been brought together for the Christmas 2013 exhibition at the Quest Gallery, Bath. Prices start at £40. Some some new ringsets by the renowned designer...

Transformer: Aspects of Travesty Richard Saltoun Gallery 13 December 2013–28 February 2014 On the 40th anniversary of 'Transformer: Aspects of Travesty' – a groundbreaking show curated by Jean-Christophe Ammann ...

Riverside Artists Group was formed in 1986 at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. Its raison d’être is to support and promote practising visual artists based in West London. RAG is run by its artists. It provides a network for exchan...

Well, so Natasha Rees tells us! We Can All Have It is on display 24 hours a day, seven days a week at The London Arts Board from 11 to 29 December. Natasha Rees was born in Caerleon, Wales, and works as an artist and writer in Lon...

Alison Wilding Tate Britain: Display Now on until 9 February 2014 Tate Britain’s Duveen galleries host a display of works by Alison Wilding , one of Britain’s foremost sculptors, known for her inventive approach to fo...

Qiwen Ke, an international student from China soon to graduate with an MA in 'Applied Imagination' from Central St Martins art school in London, has created a provocative installation centring on a model of an unborn child enveloped in ice. This...

The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is still under the threat of having its collections sold off to pay the debts of the City of Detroit. There is pressure to do this from some of the city's creditors. It would seem incredibly short sighted of the C...

‘Alex Chinneck – Miner on the Moon (Upside Down House)’ 20 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8NY from 5 December 2013 Part of BANKSIDE TRANSFORMED As the Grande finale to MERGE 2013, artist Alex Chinneck ...

London's Whitechapel Gallery is currently showing works by Sarah Lucas , in the exhibition ' SITUATION Absolute Beach Man Rubble '. This closes on 15 December so get over there soon if you don't want to miss it. Sarah Lucas was one of t...

Paul Winstanley
 ‘Art School’ 
 
15 November 2013–7 January 2014 ‘Art School’ is an exhibition of new paintings and photographs by Paul Winstanley, showing this winter at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Dur...

What is probably the world’s earliest example of a multimedia publication has sold for £21,080 A book that could be the first example of a publication containing images, words and music sold for £21,080 on Thursday 28 November...