Talbot Rice Gallery, The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL
Lengths of printed fabric enfold the gallery’s oval space. They feature a mass selection of digitalised images from the University of Edinburgh’s academic collections. Review by Alexander Hetherington
Birch Contemporary, 129 Tecumseth St, Toronto, ON M6J 2H2
In his 1966 essay ‘Entropy And The New Monuments’, Robert Smithson describes an architectural imagination that is fixated on the present. ‘New Monuments Forget the Future’ returns to the text with a meditative exhibition studying the changing cityscape. Rowan Lear reviews.
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX
Carsten Höller’s ‘Decision’ asks the viewer to reflect on the process of decision making. Accepting doubt and uncertainty, Höller intends the viewer to experience ‘moments of not knowing’. Review by Rory Duckhouse
mac birmingham, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, B12 9QH
“At a time when so many art colleges in this country are now increasingly out of reach for most, Cannon Hill Art School will remind us of the reasons why art school practice today should be open to all.” Cathy Wade, Visiting Tutor at Cannon Hill Art School, responds to the project.
Institute Of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
Eloise Hawser’s exhibition, ‘Lives on Wire’ at the ICA, explores the bodily attributes of a theatre organ and its various afterlives. Review by Louisa Lee
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 152 North Central Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012
Through Pope.L’s intervention, the trinket is situated as what is shared among us—clumsy or privileged, embodied or discarded; trinkets bind us together. Review by Rusty Van Riper
Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, New York, NY 10012
A cinematographic journey across architectural offices in New York City, from Fifth Avenue’s corporate bureaus to Downtown and Brooklyn’s lofts and warehouses, 'The Architects' investigates the cultural outcomes of economical models and labour in relation to the field of architecture. Review by Laura Herman
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead NE8 3BA
American consumer, pop and car culture collide in cacophonous excess in the sprawling, disordered installations painstakingly recreated for BALTIC’s formidable spaces. Review by Rowan Lear
David Roberts Art Foundation, Symes Mews, London NW1 7JE
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Gallery spaces are transformed into a cloakroom, backstage, main stage, lounge and shadow theatre through the elaborate staging of The Violet Crab at David Roberts Art Foundation. Jaime Marie Davis reviews
Rowing, 3 Leighton Place, London NW5 2QL
Art has a longstanding relationship with food and consumer culture. ‘M’m! M’m! Good!’ explores alternative ideas of sustenance, interrogating contemporary culture’s relationship with food and food production. Phoebe V. Bradford reviews
South London Gallery, 65-67 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH
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Fiona Haggerty reviews 'Passage avec Poussin' by Isabelle Cornaro, exploring the ordered and methodical structuring of objects within pictorial space.
Available to view online between 17 August to 31 August 2015
SWIM was one of a series of works looking at people and our relationship with water in an urban setting.
Fundación Botín C/ Pedrueca, 1 - 39003 Santander, Spain
'17 Wall Drawings: 1970-2015' is one of Europe’s most significant exhibitions to date devoted entirely to the Wall Drawings of American artist Sol LeWitt. An excellent presentation of LeWitt's theoretical ethos, the show demonstrates that although the work is rooted in 1970s Conceptualism, its perpetual re-birth means it will always feel contemporary. Review by Kathryn Lloyd.
