Renowned for transforming the domestic and everyday urban objects into sculpture, Burlington Gardens, the Royal Academy’s new venue for contemporary art, comprises over 50 pieces from Bill Woodrow’s oeuvre in a new exhibition.
Chris Burden is a master of many modes of expression. But his capacity with design, architecture and engineering dominates his current exhibition, Extreme Measures, at the New Museum.
Covering all genres of Patrick Lichfield’s photography, landscape, portraiture, fashion and nudes, The Little Black Gallery displays the first exhibition of his Caribbean images.
Art Cinema at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) returns for a one-off special event. Previous events have included work by artists Salvador Dali, René Clair and Rachel Maclean.
The designs of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel have influenced and inspired designers for decades. The Chanel Legend at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag explores the company and its creative directors.
New York City is transformed into the performance capital of the world as the biennial Performa returns for its fifth edition. 2013 sees more than 100 separate shows presented.
David Johnson makes installations, usually using existing objects with projections or light. His work is concerned with the basic nature of reality: mind and world, spirit and matter, being and nothingness.
In the catalogue prepared for the first ever Contemporary African Art Fair to take place in the world, the foreword by Koyo Kouoh, the fair’s Cameroon-born artistic director, draws attention to many important aspects of the fair.
Frieze week is always a good opportunity to do something spectacular or insane. The surprising marriage of Gonzalez-Torres and Hirst captivates audiences.
This year at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, audiences will have the opportunity to engage with both mainstream cinema, and a programme of thought-provoking artists’ film.
Weetwood Hall plays host to an art conference offering eight speakers the chance to explore the less familiar side of art and examine the difference between artist intent and audience reception.
From 24 October, Jim Shaw’s 40-year practice will be under the spotlight at Chalet Society. The artist has produced a significant number of paintings, drawings, videos, installations and performances.
Mitra Tabrizian’s Leicestershire makes its UK debut in an exhibition showcasing shots taken in the county still bearing the marks and memories of its once central position in the textile and hosiery industry.
Irving Penn: On Assignment is an eclectic collection of photographs and media taken or published between the 1940s and 2008. Yet there is a unity to the pictures that derives from excellence.
Dorothy Cross Connemara and Turner And Constable: Sketching From Nature straddle an almost two-century gap, contemporary mixed-media on one side, Romantic painting on the other.
Zoe Strauss’s most interesting work may be her most abstract: images of construction materials, earth moving machines, geometry of interiors/ exterior façades, lights in a night sky.
With an interest in the challenges and changes in the art world, FIAC returns for its 40th edition on 24-27 October. The fair aims to be creative and responsive while maintaining a spirit of continuity.
Frieze London is over for another year and now is the time to reflect upon the many works on display. Drawing visitors in immediately was Dan Graham’s Plexiglas spiral sculpture.
The Social: Encountering Photography is the first festival of international contemporary photography in North East England. The event collates new commissions with iconic works.
