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Panel discussion, Thursday 6 March, 6.30p.m. Ridinghouse, London publishers of art books, are hosting a free public panel discussion that considers five groups of works by British artist Nicholas Pope , whose sculpture explores the physical qua...

‘Tobias Rehberger. Home and Away and Outside’ at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (on now until 11 May 2014) is an exhibition in three parts by Tobias Rehberger (b.1966), one of the most influential German artists of his generation. An artis...


 'Art in the era of assessment' 

 Friday 28 February–Thursday 27 Mar 2014 Can students' artwork, produced for external assessment, retain true artistic integrity? Can their teachers, who are also art practitioners...

Art History in the Pub is back for 2014 – Monday 24 February, 7.30p.m. The extent of Pre-Raphaelite participation in the cult of spiritualism has never been thoroughly recognized. Above all, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was driven by a guilty ...

‘Abstract Drawing’ Drawing Room, London 20 February–19 April 2014 Following her major show at Tate Britain, Alison Wilding is included in Abstract Drawing , a group exhibition curated by Turner Prize-winning ar...

Spectators at Sochi Winter Olympic Games create giant 3D ‘selfies’ in project developed by London-based artist Asif Khan. A digital Mount Rushmore? Asif Khan has created MegaFaces, a pavilion at the entrance of the Sochi Olym...

Emma Richardson: 'FEAST' Friday 21 February – Saturday 29 March 2014 Southampton-based artist Emma Richardson is to have her first solo exhibition with the Outsiders Gallery in London's Soho. Entitled 'FEAST', t...

'Mona Hatoum: Turbulence ' Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art Until 18 May 2014 Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha is currently showing ‘Mona Hatoum: Turbulence’, the artist’s largest solo exhibition ...

To celebrate the current exhibition Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore! at Somerset House, Studio-BOO were commissioned to create an installation taking inspiration from Isabella Blow’s personal collection of incredibly crafted Philip Treacy hats. ...

Enrique Martínez Celaya 'A Wasted Journey, A Half-Finished Blaze' Now on until 7 March 2014 Galleri Andersson/Sandström Umea, Sweden Galleri Andersson/Sandström Umea in Sweden is presenting Umeå&rsquo...

The National Gallery, London has acquired its first major American painting – the 1912 work Men of the Docks by George Bellows (1882–1925). This is the first painting by this important American artist to enter a UK public collection. ...

‘Art and Optimism in 1950s Britain’ 
 21 February – 29 June 2014 
 Free entry 

 This spring, mima presents ‘ Art and Optimism in 1950s Britain’ , a major exhibition that explores the changes in th...

‘Patrick Scott 
Image Space Light’ 
 opens at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow on 16 February 2014 Sadly, just as a major exhibition of his work is about to open, it has been a...

Remains , the new video work by Willie Doherty at Dublin’s Kerlin Gallery Remains is situated in the landscape and streets of Derry, Northern Ireland where an uneasy peace is often disrupted by incidents of violence that seem like ine...

'Art & Life 1920–31' Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis & William Staite Murray Now at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge till 11 May. A major international exhibition of work from two ...

New exhibition of illustrations 14 February to 6 April 2014 Across the ages, London has produced and inspired countless stories. Fictitious and real characters and events in this amazing city have always held fascination, from anecdotal urban my...

‘Living As Form (The Nomadic Version)’ at The Carpenter Center For The Visual Arts, Cambridge, Boston An exhibition of 20 years of cultural works that blur the forms of art and everyday life, emphasizing participation, dialogue and com...

According to Edith Tudor-Hart, by the mid-1930s photography had ‘ceased to be an instrument for recording events and became a means for stimulating and influencing events. It became a living art embracing the people’. This was written in 1...

A major show at London's Somerset House showcases the life and work of this extraordinary patron of the art of fashion The late Isabella Blow ‘could talk about fashion with complete rigour in terms of silhouette, shape and historical c...

Edward Steichen in the 1920s and 1930s: A Recent Acquisition 
 Closes 23 February 
’The Godfather of Modern Fashion Photography – Gotham From 1923 to 1937, Edward Steichen (1879–1973) was the chief photographer...

Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris is showing the installation Douglas Gordon Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work From About 1992 Until Now in its permanent collection from Friday 7 March. So if you are a fan of his work it's ti...

Tapestry of Touch – a ‘hands-on’ arts exhibition to raise awareness of sight and hearing loss UK national deafblind charity, Sense, is launching a ‘hands-on’ arts exhibition to spread the word about sight and hearin...

Enrique Brinkmann 'Painting in Space – The Dilemma of Gesture' 7 February – 29 March 2014 Following the inaugural UK retrospective of Spanish artist Enrique Brinkmann, ‘The Poetics of Silence’ in 2011, w...

T.J. Wilcox 'In the Air' closes Sunday 9 February ‘Dazzling . . . an ode to New York and to film’ – The New York Times This exhibition presents a new panoramic film installation by T. J. Wilcox – a large...

Renaissance Women artists – who were they? Jenny Kingsley explores the history of women artists of the Renaissance Recently I saw a play about Elizabeth Siddal (1829 – 1862), the Pre- Raphaelite artists ’ model, poet a...

Alison Wilding Tate Britain: Display Closes this Sunday, 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 approac...

‘ Jerwood Collection: Revealed’ 1 February – 23 April 2014 The Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK starts 2014 with an in-depth look at the Jerwood Collection of 20th- and 21st-century British art. The exhibition will mar...

‘In Focus: Alfred Wallis’ With works from the Kettle's Yard Collection, University of Cambridge 1 February – 23 April 2014 Complementing ‘Jerwood Collection: Revealed’exhibition will be a single ...

Proceeds from the sale of a limited-edition print to support human rights organization in Egypt The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation announced today the selection of Shirin Neshat for its new One-to-One artist initiative that supports contempo...

Patterns of Magnificence Tradition and Reinvention in Greek Women's Costume The multiform traditions of Greek women’s dress are among the richest and most splendid in the world. This exhibition brings together over 40 superb or...