Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre, Moss Street, Bury, BL9 0DR, UK
Reading As Art
Simon Morris examines the relationship between reading and art .
Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, 13 Perth Road, Dundee DD1 4HT
Of Other Spaces: Where does gesture become event? Chapter One
Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event? is a two-chapter contemporary art exhibition and event programme at Cooper Gallery and off site venues in Dundee.
The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, Marylebone, London W1U 3BN
The Middle - Tom Ellis at the Wallace Collection
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Oscar Gaynor reviews a solo exhibition of work by Tom Ellis at the Wallace Collection, spread between its basement white cube gallery space and some of its silk-lined historical rooms.
Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG / Nahmad Projects, 2 Cork Street, London W1S 3LB
Naked Truth
Carolina Mostert considers the eroticism to be found within Georgia O'Keeffe's recent exhibition at Tate Modern and the artists currently exhibiting in 'Bliss' at Nahmad Projects.
Breese Little, Unit 1, 249 - 253 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 6JY
Aimée Parrott
Aimée Parrott is as much a painter as she is a choreographer: an expert craftsperson able to temper and transform fabric with certain ease. Review by Skye Arundhati Thomas
New Galerie, 2 rue Borda, 75003 Paris
Amalia Ulman: Reputation
The pioneer of a still loosely defined practice, Amalia Ulman uses social networks as a stage for her performances. For her exhibition at New Galerie, Ulman has transformed each room into a diffracted mirror of her virtual universe.
Para Site, 22/F Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: The Serenity of Madness
Filmmaker and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul is deeply invested in the life, culture, spirituality, and struggles of the people excluded by the elite nationalist project of the Thai state. Para Site presents a survey of Weerasethakul's experimental short films, video installations, sculpture, photography, and drawings.
Talbot Rice Gallery, The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL
Rob Kennedy: acts of dis play
Glasgow-based artist Rob Kennedy’s new installation for Talbot Rice Gallery seeks to describe a gallery space as site for the jarring confluence of material, subjects, reference, interference and thought.
Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ
Rachel Emily Taylor: Finding Foundlings
Artist Rachel Emily Taylor presented new works made during her residency at the Foundling Museum on the 14th of October 2016.
Serpentine Sackler Gallery, West Carriage Drive, London W2 2AR
Helen Marten: Drunk Brown House
There’s no cosy welcome at ‘Drunk Brown House’, Helen Marten’s solo exhibition in the Serpentine Sackler Gallery. The iron framework filling the entrance acts as a gate, its outline of a hand holding a knife carves up the gallery, invoking an act of violence to tame the challenging space. Review by Tessa Norton
The Showroom, 63 Penfold St, Marylebone, London NW8 8PQ
Uriel Orlow: Mafavuke’s Trial and Other Plant Stories
In ‘Mafavuke’s Trial and Other Plant Stories’, Uriel Orlow proposes the concept of botany as a political sphere, where vegetation and plant life emerge as instruments of political agency, both in colonial and post-colonial contexts. Review by Ruth Hogan
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Abandoibarra Etorb., 2, 48009 Bilbo, Bizkaia, Spain
Francis Bacon: From Picasso to Velázquez
‘Francis Bacon: From Picasso to Velázquez’ at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is conceivably one of the most significant Bacon exhibitions to date. It features a number of works on which little is known and some that have never been exhibited. Review by Dr Rina Ayra
Tanya Leighton, Kurfürstenstraße 156 & 24/25, 10785 Berlin
Borna Sammak: No Hanging Out
Borna Sammak’s unique approach to mining contemporary culture – translated into video, sculpture and painting – often amounts to an overwhelming, nearly illegible accumulation of the stuff that surrounds us. If contemporary life feels cluttered, Sammak asks just how much overstimulation we are willing to slog through to find meaning that makes sense to us.
Annka Kultys Gallery, 472 Hackney Road, Unit 3, 1st Floor, London, E2 9EQ
Molly Soda: Comfort Zone
Comfort Zone brings together Molly Soda's exploration of how instant messaging, constant sharing, retweeting and ranking through likes, invades and permeates our lives today. All these technologies profoundly affect our concept of human identity and the relationship between the public and the private realms.
