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Tom Levy ‘Visual Meditations’ Saturday 1 August 2015, 6p.m.–9p.m. On Saturday 1 August, British artist Tom Levy is holding a solo exhibition called ‘Visual Meditations’.With 40 pieces on display, each is paint...

El Lissitzky: The Artist and the State With the work of Rossella Biscotti, Maud Gonne, Núria Güell, Alice Milligan, Sarah Pierce & Hito Steyerl 30 July – 18 October As the centenary of Ireland’s Easter R...

A new contemporary art event in South Europe will create a new indispensable date within the international calendar. Art Marbella is born, a fair and meeting point for Mediterranean creators and collectors. During five days, from 30 July to...

Edible art: Pyramid of 5,800 oranges to feature in new exhibition at The Lowry 'ExtraORDINARY: Everyday objects & actions in contemporary art' 25 July–18 October 2015 Visitors to a new exhibition at the award-wi...

The Jerwood Drawing Prize is the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK. Selected from original drawings, the Jerwood Drawing Prize has established a reputation for its commitment to championing excellence, and to...

A great start for young artists Jack Petchey Start programme opens young people's eyes to the wonderful world of art and leads them to exhibiting their own art at the Saatchi Gallery 300 secondary school students from seven Enfield s...

‘Warhol and the World of Pop Art’ 25 July – 1 November 2015 The artwork of Andy Warhol (1928–87) will take centre stage in a unique exhibition at The Lightbox gallery and museum, which will showcase the colourful ...

Alice Anderson: Memory Movement Memory Objects Wednesday 22 July–Sunday 18 October Over 100 works by artist Alice Anderson will be displayed at the Wellcome Collection. Anderson’s sculptures are entirely mummified in cop...

David Hall | ‘Situations Envisaged’ 17 July – 14 August 2015 Richard Saltoun Gallery will be showing the work of one of the earliest exponents of video art in the UK, David Hall. Richard Saltoun will be showing Hall&rsq...

The Ingram Collection: Art and Christianity 18 July – 27 September 2015 For hundreds of years the theme of religion has been a popular subject for artists. From the 18 July – 27 September 2015 The Lightbox, Woking, UK will ex...

17 July to 13 August at Lazarides Gallery Lazarides Editions’ new exhibition ‘Printin' Backwuds’ looks back at over 50 years of fine art prints by one of the world's most politically charged cartoonists, Ralph Steadman....

John Stezaker' s current exhibition, 'John Stezaker: Film Works' at Bexhill's stunning De La Warr Pavilion closes on 19 July. He is showing three films: Horse (2012), Crowd (2013) and Cathedral (2013). Each is made from numerous ...

The EU has had its vote on the proposal to remove the Freedom of Panorama - and the right has been protected. Even the MEP who proposed removal of the right ended up voting against his own proposal, so vociferous was the campaign against the amendment. ...

The Department of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London claims that over the past 25 years, its graduates have been instrumental in turning contemporary art into one of the most dynamic art forms in British culture. The Department of Art’s...

The artist James Capper will be visiting The Cass Sculpture Foundation (CASS) to demonstrate his new commission GREENHORN . GREENHORN is the first work in a new series of James Capper’s Material Handling division, so called because of th...

At present in the UK and most EU countries, you can take a photograph of, or including, a public building or work of art as long as you are standing on public ground, and you can publish it where you like - in a magazine such as Cassone , on your Face...

Soho Fluorescent 2015 is the new open house arts festival running in the centre of London this weekend. The event will see 40 up-and-coming artists creating and exhibiting work in up to 12 unconventional venues across Soho. The Soho Fluorescent...

Valérie Belin – 'Unquiet Images' Where does the sense of uncanny strangeness in Valérie Belin’s photographs come from? From the living complexion of her shop-window mannequins, or the fixed expressions of these...

As part of the exhibition 'America Is Hard to See', the Whitney is screening a series showcasing films and videos from the Museum’s collection by approximately 50 artists. Programmes screen on select Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays in the ...

Dead but certainly not forgotten, 'King of Cool' Steve McQueen (1930–80), once the highest paid movie actor in the world, star of the original Thomas Crown Affair, Bulitt, The Towering Inferno, The Magnificent Seven and many other Holly...

Drawn entirely from the Whitney’s collection, ‘America Is Hard to See’ takes the inauguration of the Museum’s new building as an opportunity to re-examine the history of art in the United States from the beginning of the 20th cen...

‘Sophie Calle: North Pole’ On now until 9 August 2015 Following her mother's death, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle wanted to bury her portrait and jewels on a glacier in the North Pole, a place her mother had alwa...