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798 Art District, No. 2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100015

Liu Jianhua: Square

Square

Liu Jianhua's solo exhibition comprises freely spilled materials that bring together craft and fine art traditions.

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Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Stadhouderslaan 41, 2517 HV Den Haag, The Netherlands

Jürgen Partenheimer: The Archive

Nirox 7 (Dreaming Termites)

Jürgen Partenheimer has carved out a niche of his own within the field of abstract art. His exhibition at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag is his third at the gallery.

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Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham, B1 2HS

Lee Bul

Lee Bul, Mon grand récit Weep into stones . . . (2005)

Political, cryptic and dazzlingly beautiful, Lee Bul's first solo show in the UK opens with a remarkable new work inspired by a mystical glass city. Review by Catrin Davies

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BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead, NE8 3BA

Lydia Gifford: Drawn

Lydia Gifford: Drawn, Installation view at BALTIC, Gateshead (2014)

Engaging in a dialogue of painterly curiosity, Drawn reflects an understanding of painting originating from post-minimalism. Review by Rachel McDermott

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Hopkinson Mossman, 19 Putiki St Auckland 1021 New Zealand

Fiona Connor: Can Do Academy

Installation view: Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland

The taxonomy of marks in Can Do Academy are quoted from various sites of creative production, including artist studios, after school program rooms, and print workshops. The patina is that of incidental marks; signs of process that would typically be either contained in the surface of a painting (as purposeful mark-making), or purposefully excluded from exhibition.

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Hannah Hoffman Gallery, 1010 N Highland Avenue, Los Angeles 90038

Sam Falls

Sam Falls' paintings inhabited the landscape before the white cube gallery.

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MOSTYN, 12 Vaughan Street, Llandudno, Wales LL30 1AB

WAR

WAR, Installation View at MOSTYN (2014)

It’s often hard to conceptualise a global war that is reaching its centenary year, but Mostyn present it in connection with the local town, Llandudno. Review by Rory Duckhouse

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Laura Bartlett Gallery, 4 Herald Street, London E2 6JT

Elizabeth McAlpine: Tip Toe

Sleeping Hollow 2

Elizabeth McAlpine's sixth solo show at the gallery continues her explorations into the materiality of photographic processes and the haptic legibility of surface through a series of photographic objects that hover between the bi-dimensional surface of their paper support and the architectural space they inhabit as well as represent.

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Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY 12504-5000

Amy Sillman: one lump or two

13 Possible Futures for a Painting

Amy Sillman's painting practice has recently turned to the diagram, injecting into her lush, abstract fields of colour the sort of stringent line so often used to communicate complex information.

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