Modern Institute, 3 Aird’s Lane, Glasgow G1 5HU

Richard Wright

Richard Wright  No Title 2014 Handmade leaded glass  Installation view The Modern Institute, Glasgow, 2014 Photo: Keith Hunter

Richard Wright continues his work with York Glaziers Trust - Britain’s oldest stained glass conservation studio, who have a special connection to the medieval windows at York Minster. For this project he has made four leaded glass skylights in the ceiling at Aird’s Lane.

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Contemporary Art Centre, Vokieciu 2, LT- 01130 Vilnius, Lithuania

Rosa Barba

Boundaries of Consumption

Rosa Barba explores the fragmentation of cinematic language in her exhibition at CAC Vilnius.

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Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien, Austria

New Ways of Doing Nothing

Bartleby le scribe brickbat

New Ways of Doing Nothing devotes itself to a form of artistic production that opposes activity, doing and manufacturing. It instead gives an affirmative slant to forms of doing nothing.

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Workplace Gallery, The Old Post Office 19/21 West Street, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear NE8 1AD

Cecilia Stenbom: Everyday Collateral

Everyday Collateral, Installation view Workplace Gallery, 2014

Everyday Collateral plays on universal anxieties that proliferate our existence, yet channels them through the stylistic lens of HBO-style dramas, health and safety demos and infomercials. Review by Rebecca Travis

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The NewBridge Project, 12 NewBridge Street West, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8AW

Steven Dickie: A Hypertrophied Eye

Steven Dickie: A Hypertrophied Eye, 2014

Dickie’s immersive audio-visual installation speculates on future possibilities and fantasies of screen-based knowledge systems. Review by Rachel McDermott

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Laura Bartlett Gallery, 4 Herald Street, London

Accordion

Accordion installation view Laura Bartlett Gallery, London 2014

Laura Bartlett Gallery is pleased to present Accordion, a group show bringing together works by Caroline Achaintre, Nina Beier, Anna Betbeze, Sissel Blystad, Sol Calero, Christopher Kline, Fay Nicolson and Alek O..

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Chandelier Projects, Studio 16, Victor House 282a Richmond Road Hackney, London E83QS

Grant Foster: Holy Island

Holy Island borrows from the provincial traditions of British Romantic painting alongside a personal archive of tabloid newspaper photographs, children’s illustration and advertising imagery. Foster offers a sardonic and often humorous swipe at the role of nationalism, religion and our commonly assumed cultural values. The exhibition presents a peculiarly British world: petty, vengeful, absurd and contradictory.

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Le Grand Cafe, Contemporary Art Centre, Place des Quatre z’Horloges, F–44600 Saint-Nazaire

Bertille Bak: The Tour of Babel

The Tour of Babel, 2014

In a practice that poetically blends documentary and fiction, Bertille Bak is developing a unique way of thinking about her contemporaries.

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HangarBicocca, Via Chiese 2, Milano, Italy

Cildo Meireles: Installations

Marulho, Installation view at Fondazione HangarBicocca, 2014

Pirelli HangarBicocca presents Cildo Meireles: Installations, the first exhibition in Italy devoted to one of the most important artists on the international scene, whose multi-sensory works inspire intense involvement of the public.

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Cole Gallery, 19 Goulston St. London. E1 7TP

Jackson Sprague

Installation view

A collection of immaculately turned out objects populate the two floors of Cole Gallery for Jackson Sprague’s latest exhibition, emanating a dapper, old-school charm. Indeed, on walking through the door I half expect a jazz band to swing into action, such is the predominant mid-century style.

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