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Gilly Turney writes: French photographer Guy Bourdin transformed fashion photography with his innovative, seductive images and a major exhibition at the Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, London, shows that his photographs are as relevant tod...

Blinc , a city-wide exhibition for the Adelaide Festival , sees the South Australian capital engulfed in lights and projections. Eerie faces appear and disappear in clouds of smoke, a three-dimensional elephant stomps through crowds in a bar an...

'Post Pop: East Meets West' is at the Saatchi Gallery, London but has only another week to go before it closes on 3 March 2015. So catch it before it closes! Read Peter Jones' review of the show in this month's Cassone. Saatc...

No, we aren't prophets of doom, but the 'REALITY' exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich, UK closes on 1 March. Is REALITY the real thing? Read Hugh McGlyn's review in January's Cassone. If you are...

Look Again The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2015 
Exhibition open 24 February to 7 March 2015 London’s Mall Galleries are offering free entrance to Cassone readers. Just mention Cassone (Ca-soh-neh) at the door an...

Mackintosh Architecture 18 February– 23 May 2015 Architecture Gallery, RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD The Scottish architect, artist and designer, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928) is celebrated worldwide, b...

To celebrate the publication of Christopher Le Brun: New Paintings , the publisher, Ridinghouse, is organizing a special event with the artist at the Academicians' Room at The Keeper's House of the Royal Academy of Art, London, on Monday, 9 ...

'Warsaw Calling: Emerging Polish Fashion Design Talent ' 20–24 February Brewer Street Car Park, London FREE ‘Warsaw Calling: Emerging Polish Fashion Design Talent’ is a response to the enthusiastic...

The Last Art-of-Peace Biennale 13 February – 20 March 2015 We're all against war. But what are we for? Peace, we say. What is peace? Nobody quite knows. (Robert Filliou) Richard Saltoun Gallery is celebrating the ...

HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection 14 February–14 June 2015 For more than 25 years, Los Angeles-based collectors Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard have built a world-class collection of contemporary art that is focused on men...

Royal Academy 'Premiums' show opens today RA Schools has played a vital role in the education and career development of some of Britain’s most successful artists. For many of them, their first chance to exhibit in a major museu...

Refiguring the 50s: Curatorial Tour , Ben Uri gallery, London Tuesday 17 February at 11.00a.m. Dr Judith Walsh, lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Liverpool and Hope University, and exhibition catalogue contributor, c...

A national competition will reveal what art means to UK primary school children A UK-wide competition is launched today asking all primary school children 'What is art?'. The competition by Artis challenges primary school children ...

The Phillips Collection, Washington DC explores the tntersection of art and science in ‘Man Ray – Human Equations: A Journey From Mathematics To Shakespeare’ – on now until 10 May 2015 This exhibition displays toget...

Admirers of the work of Maggi Hambling should get over to the National Gallery, London this week to see her latest paintings of the sea at Southwold, Suffolk, UK. There are eight very large canvases, over six feet by seven, and a smaller one inspired ...

Guido van der Werve: Nummer veertien , home Until 26 April 2015 Nummer veertien , home , Dutch artist Guido van der Werve’s 54-minute film, weaves together three stories of journeys away from home: the death of Fréd&eac...

‘Graphic Constellations: Visual Poetry and the Properties of Space’ is a group exhibition co-curated by Bronac Ferran and Will Hill at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge, UK that opens on 6 February. The artists are: Liliane Lijn Fr...

William Gear: Centenary Exhibition of Works on Paper 1947–1996 1 – 21 February 2015 A Centenary Exhibition of Works on Paper from 1947 – 1996 by William Gear (1915 – 1997) is taking place from 1 – 21 Febr...

Present in the Past: Renovation and Revival in King’s Cross Central Weekdays 5–25 February 2015 Viewings by appointment, details below. Collyer Bristow, 4 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4TF Jerwood Drawing Prize winner an...

The Works on Paper Fair , the annual art fair specializing in drawings, watercolours, prints and photographs, is being held Thursday 5 - Sunday 8 February 2015 at the Science Museum in South Kensington, London . The 2015 Fair will bring toge...

Unexpected Encounters: Kasia Depta-Garapich and Stanisław Wejman Unexpected Encounters is a conversation between two artists of different generations. It began around disposable objects that became works of art almost against the intention... ...