MAUREEN PALEY. 21 Herald Street, London E2 6JT

David Thorpe: A Rare Beast

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Thorpe's installations are painstakingly constructed through complex layering processes where the objects are dressed and hidden. Each piece is ornately detailed and meticulously rendered, honouring traditional methods of handwork, where there is a close

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Five Years, Unit 66 6th Floor, Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London, E8 4QN

Mary Maclean: Left of Place

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The photographic images of empty lecture theatres, hallways and seminar rooms in Mary MacLean's Left of Place engage with new spatial representations and allude to the interface between knowledge and power using titles drawn from Foucault's essays. Each i

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Stephen Friedman Gallery, 25-28 Old Burlington Street, London W1S 3AN

Shapeshift

SHIRR 1 Untitled (Standing Shadows)

Stephen Friedman Gallery is delighted to announce its summer exhibition, Shapeshift, a group presentation in two gallery spaces. The exhibition brings together the work of four contemporary artists: Sarah Braman, Iran do Espirito Santo, Jim Hodges and Eri

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Interview with Bassam El Baroni courtesy Kadist Foundation Paris

Peer, 97 & 99 Hoxton Street London, N1 6QL UK

Robert Holyhead: Paintings and Works on Paper

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On the three walls of PEER's first gallery space Robert Holyhead displayed dozens of small watercolour drawings, all produced over the past few years. Unframed and carefully arranged on long narrow ledges to form a grid pattern, these works are presented

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David Byrne: Get It Away from Artangel on Vimeo. David Byrne stayed in A Room for London, a one-bedroom installation above the River Thames, from 17 - 19 February 2012. During this residency, he created Get It Away... London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute. I brought along some field recording gear to use while I was staying in the lovely pod/room/boat. I went out during the day and recorded sounds that I thought might be useful and evocative. It turned out that most of the sounds - even the church organ in Southwark Cathedral - seemed to converge around a common rhythm. It's a bit too good to be true - that every large city should have its own rhythm, but here it is. I let the sounds dictate the groove, the tempo, and then I simply played along. Here are where the sounds come from: Strawberry seller: Borough Market, Train: Southwark, Woman Evangelist: Spitalfields Market, Organ: Southwark Cathedral, Jackhammer: near Waterloo, Footsteps: mine, embankment, Thames waves: near Surrey water. The videos are from all over. I took lots of photos around town while walking about, but I felt that moving images complemented London's groove a little better. DB

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street Cambridge, CB2 1RB

Edgelands: Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy

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The writer Robert Macfarlane defines the 'Edgeland' as that 'debatable space where city and countryside fray into one another': it is a neglected, nameless landscape where ivy strangles graffiti-clad brickwork and knotted fists of weeds rear up through co

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The Tanks: Sung Hwan Kim Preview, just opened at Tate Modern

Anthony Reynolds Gallery, 60 Great Marlborough Street, London, W1F 7BG

Asier Mendizabal Untitled (Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic)

Rotation (Moir, Brussels) and Rotation (Moir, Salburua)

Asier Mendizabal's first exhibition at Anthony Reynolds is an exploration of the same subjects that have accompanied the artist throughout these years; the political subject and the exploration of symbols. These themes are not unfamiliar to Londoners beca

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