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‘Edmund de Waal: Atmosphere’ (29 March 2014 – 8 February 2015) is a new installation by the renowned ceramic artist and author. De Waal , who grew up in Canterbury and is best known for his large installations of porcelain vesse...

SiOTT Gallery Saturday 29 March–Sunday 20 April 2014 'The Elusive Line' is a show at the Riverside Studios curated by SiOTT Gallery featuring works by Sophia Burns, James Reynolds, Steven Porter and Natalia Davis. The sh...

Three mornings a fortnight Jeremy Cooper has breakfast at Mario’s Café, around the corner from his London digs, on fortnightly visits from home in Somerset. The postcards in this installation at the café have been gathered since 1...

14 March – 3 May 2014 An exhibition currently at Hauser & Wirth explores the decade-long collaboration between Dieter Roth (1930–98) and Arnulf Rainer (b. 1929). From 1972, Roth and Rainer worked together intermittently, produc...

To complement the current show of Michael Kenny’s work at Bath Abbey and Quest Gallery, there will be a panel discussion on his work this Saturday, 15 March at the Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath in the Elwin Room Doors ...

Tickets are now already on sale on Tate Britain’s website for what promises to be the must-see show of the autumn. J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) continued to paint prolifically to the end of his life, despite living in a period when most...

Sunday Session at the Australian Centre for Photography Sunday 16 March | 2–4pm Free Entry Join prominent commercial photographer and exhibiting artist Michele Aboud at The Australian Centre for Photography on Sunday 16 March...

Now in its 15th year, the Affordable Art Fair continues to position itself as the perfect antidote to the capital’s high-rolling fairs. But, whilst the price tags are more palatable, it’s not all about shopping. The Spring edition, which ope...

13–22 March: RCA's 'secret' postcard sale The Royal College of Art’s annual anonymous postcard exhibition and fundraising sale is back for its 20th year. Where else can you see over 2,500 postcard size works of art in one...

‘Post-Op’ Perceptual Gone Painterly 1958–2014 Curated by Matthieu Poirier Galerie Perrotin, Paris / 8 March 8 –19 April 2014 ‘Post-Op’ opens this evening at Galerie Perrotin, Paris. The ...

Piranesi at Sir John Soane's Museum, London ‘Diverse Maniere: Piranesi, Fantasy and Excess’ Sir John Soane’s Museum, 7 March – 31 May 2014 This spring, Sir John Soane’s Museum is staging the seco...

There are only a few weeks left to catch a retrospective of the rarely seen work of French artist, René Rimbert (1896–1991) before the exhibition closes on 24 March 2014. In Rimbert’s first retrospective in nearly 20 years, ther...

The 2014 Biennial will take a bold new form as three curators from outside the Museum – Stuart Comer (Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at MoMA), Anthony Elms (Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia), and Mic...

The Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge has launched an appeal to save Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ‘lost’ polar negatives. A last minute stay of execution means it now has until 25 March to save the negatives for the UK. ...

A report from Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, expresses the Gallery’s profound sense of sadness and loss on reporting the death of Barrie Cooke. Born in Cheshire, England, 1931 Barrie passed away on Tuesday, 4 March 2014 in Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, ...

6–29 March 2014 Artist Talk: Tuesday 18 March at 7p.m. ‘Robin Richmond is one of the finest painters working in Britain today’ Art Review ‘Robin Richmond has surely found herself a secure space within the u...

Open: 6–23 March, 11a.m.–6p.m. daily. Free admission. Graduating RCA Curating Contemporary Art students present an international group exhibition that explores the indistinct spaces that lie between chatter and silence. John Ca...

From the moment I edged my way past Work No. 142 , 1996–2002, a three-seater sofa partially blocking the gallery entrance, I sensed that Martin Creed’s first major retrospective ‘What’s the Point of It?’ (on now at London&...

A new display exploring the high demand for copies and versions of portraits by Tudor court painter Hans Holbein the Younger has opened at the National Portrait Gallery, London. ‘ Hans Holbein Re-made’ brings together a selection of importa...

This free-to-attend exhibition takes place within the sumptuous surrounds of the 208-year-old library where Roget’s Thesaurus was created, and Elizabeth Gaskell shared literary musings with Charlotte Bronte. One of the participants is Manche...

Tuesday 4 March 2014 10.45 for 11 a.m. South Kensington (precise location provided upon RSVP) Frances Borzello, art historian, author and lecturer, will speak to UK Friends of the National Museum of Women in the Arts on women artists...

London’s global art fair brings together over 180 galleries from 42 countries across the world Art14 London, sponsored by Citi Private Bank, is taking place at Olympia Grand in West London this weekend. This year the Fair presents ...

Michael Kenny RA ‘The Crucifixx’ at Bath Abbey ‘Stations of the Cross’ at Quest Gallery 03 March–20 April 2014 Quest Gallery, in association with The Royal Academy of Arts and Bath Abbey, invit...

Stephen Willats: Concerning Our Present Way of Living
 4 March–14 September 2014
 Whitechapel Gallery, London English conceptual artist Stephen Willats (b.1943) was one of the first artists to take work out of galleries a...

Louis Byrne reads a new book on Renaissance art but is left sceptical, to say the least... Did you hear the one about the two mediaeval artists working away in a busy Florentine workshop? One says to other: ‘l wish we lived in the Renaissanc...