Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, 6 Heddon St, London W1B 4BT
‘My, my shivers’ creates vibrations in the gallery. The paintings are charged with physical energy and movement; dark, crude, crayon-like marks tangle and twist across the surface of each painting, mapping the artist’s gesture through waves of intensity into moments of tranquillity. Emma Rae Warburton reviews
Laura Bartlett Gallery, 4 Herald St, London E2 6JT
'Drawn by its own memory' hits that elusive sweet spot between aesthetic pleasure and intellectual interest. Review by Isabella Smith
Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
History hasn’t been kind to much of Pop. Since the 1960s, its bastardisation in the hands of the advertising industry, has obscured the reality of what was at first a genuinely utopian project. What Tate’s ‘The World Goes Pop’ brings to light is the democratic intent of the era. Review by Niko Munz
Mon Chéri, 67 rue de la Régence, 1000 Brussels,
It is not unusual for Yonatan Vinitsky’s solo exhibitions to look like group exhibitions. The formal diversity of his works as well as that of the techniques used often produce a heterogeneous landscape that a distracted viewer would have trouble attributing to one and the same person. His solo exhibition at Mon Chéri brings together three of the artist’s new productions, along with two recent series of works.
Frutta, Via Giovanni Pascoli, 21 00184, Rome, Italy
Young British artist Lauren Keeley's images are composites of views and objects assembled and visualised in computer software, later rendered in found and screen-printed fabrics stretched across wooden panels. 'In a Year' at Frutta gallery showcases her latest, intricate works.
Studio Visit, Miami
A brief visit to Farooq’s workshop in Doral (west of Downtown Miami) provided me a glimpse of a project that only a fool could pursue: a plus-life-sized, down-to-the-centimeter reproduction of an MiG 21-BIS fighter jet. Following an artist talk hosted by Locust Projects in August 2015 and a recent studio visit, Shana Beth Mason offers her thoughts on Farooq's current work in production 'BALALAIKA'.
Cell Project Space, 258 Cambridge Heath Rd, London E2 9DA
The space is filled with a cacophony of transmissions. Live-stream screens and discordant audio recordings of conversations transport the viewer to such real-time faraway scenes as Times Square in New York or a bird feeding in the South American jungle. Phoebe Cripps reviews
Recorded inside Ben Cruachan, Scotland and broadcast on BBC Radio 4
The voice of John Mulholland is a rich, long-vowelled working class Ulster with a bone to pick. A life of dusty toil has gritted it to the core, and as surely as he has spent his working life digging into rock, so has it dug its way into him. ‘The more we do the more we get,’ he says, ‘but over time our lungs get set.’ James Gormley responds to Master Rock by Maria Fusco.
Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
Lying in fairly austere, somewhat inaccessible vitrines, the archival material shows the reality of women working in relation to the institution: as fringe observers, counter-cultural explorers and subaltern archeologists. Review by Sophie Risner
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 360 Kansas Street, San Francisco
The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts presents videos, drawings, and notes of the late, prolific artist Ellen Cantor, alongside the work of Capp Street artist-in-residence Carissa Rodriguez - an exhibition which marks the end of her three-month residency in San Francisco.
Galerie Rudolfinum, Alšovo nábř. 79/12, 110 01 Prague 1, Czech Republic
Flaesh brings together works by internationally renowned artists Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Kiki Smith and Louise Bourgeois, who collectively question the function of the human body in contemporary art, reflecting on the archaic ideals of beauty and medieval symbolism.
Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD
Although without the immediate dialogue of shared sight-lines, Bailey and Day’s pairing creates a multi-layered, sometimes contradicting, but always lively discourse, drawing out new meanings, and deciphering in each other’s those that are less clear. Review by Cicely Farrer
Kate Werble Gallery, 83 Vandam Street, New York, NY 10013
For his third exhibition at Kate Werble Gallery, titled ‘LIVESTRONG,’ the New York City-based artist Christopher Chiappa has prepared and assembled 7,000 unique plaster-based sculptures of sunny side up-style fried eggs, and installed them throughout the gallery. Review by Arthur Bravo
Southampton City Art Gallery, Civic Centre Road, Southampton SO14 7LP
Magic itself is integral to Johnson’s work. Revolving around architectural structures, his paintings are so remarkably realistic that they begin to play tricks. Review by Eva Szwarc
