Behind a slightly run-down high-street is a little known landmark: a Victorian chapel known simply as The Tin Tabernacle. Housed within this modest building is Lindsay Seers’ most recent piece.

Overlooked by the steeple of St. James’s Church, a deer lies on a stone slab, supported by a wooden pedestal in the otherwise tranquil setting…

The Hepworth stands adjacent to the river Calder’s rushing weir. The cascading energy of this ebullient, artificial diversion of a natural phenomenon is enough to inspire an ancient sense of animism.

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition turns its focus on the self-portrait as a genre throughout the 20th and 21st century, as shown in 150 works by a wide variety of international artists.

The Mind on Fire is the first solo exhibition in a UK public gallery by James Welling. Comprising around a 130 works, the exhibition will recreate some of the artist’s seminal photographic shows.

The Wapping Project Bankside showcases British-Iranian artist Mitra Tabrizian’s unseen series Another Country. Tabrizian’s work explores post-colonial theory and corporate culture in the West.

Xu Zhen has emerged as one of the most inventive and provocative artists working in China today. His work is characterised by tackling authoritarian gestures and clichés of human ambition.

Stephen Friedman Gallery presents a solo exhibition of works on paper by American painter Wayne Gonzales. This is the first time that the artist’s unique gouaches have been the focus of a show in London.

Nowhereisland has become an inspirational story for thousands of people across the world. The island has journeyed from the High Arctic region of Svalbard and was discovered by artist Alex Hartley.

The 2012 Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition ends tomorrow, submit your poetry and fiction today. The award celebrates writing, nurturing talent and bringing work to international attention.

Jerwood Makers Open brings together five emerging makers working at the forefront of applied art to Oriel Myrddin Gallery. Exhibiting artists have created works in ceramics, design, glass and more.

Imagine if a painting came to life: brushstrokes rippling across the canvas like muscles and shimmering like the surface of a wind-swept lake, drips of paint resolving into heads and limbs.

Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death, the National Portrait Gallery will focus on Monroe’s connection to Britain in their new exhibition this September.

We’re inviting all writers and poets to submit to the Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition. The competition celebrates and champions creative writing and brings work to international attention.

Last week we showed you a trailer from the up and coming Terra Cognita Photography Exhibition at the Noorderlicht International Photofestival.

Over the past five years, Aesthetica has consistently supported and championed artists working in all mediums. Artists may submit their work into any one of the four categories. Entries close 31 August.

Incorporating the works by artists Francis Alys, Stan Denniston, Andy Holden, Ben Rivers, Ugo Rondinon, Maaike Schoorel and George Shaw, this exhibition explores the meaningfulness of events in our lives.

Stonehenge goes on tour: Sacrilege by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller comes to Whitstable Biennale in Kent as part of the London 2012 celebrations. On view from 5 until 16 September.

The inverted cupcake, the washing machine, the hot-cross bun…these are just three nicknames that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum acquired in the years that followed its unveiling.

The Rootless Forest, a mobile sculpture comprising of a mini-forest made of real trees and soil planted onto a converted canal hopper, will travel the canals of Birmingham and the Black Country.

The game of Chess is believed to have originated in India in the seventh century and no other game in history has been so widely reflected in art and literature. Chess remains an intriguing subject.

With Americans’ attention directed this autumn toward the Presidential election, The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) brings together three internationally celebrated artists.

The WW Gallery presents Second Skin, a solo show of works by Ayuko Sugiura. Working with sculpture and installation, Sugiura presents the viewer with a series of new skins. From 5 September.

The definition of sculpture is currently being put into question here at the Henry Moore Institute. The artist-interrogator is Sarah Lucas. She turns to the sculptural rather than the sensational.

The 19th and possibly final edition of Noorderlicht International Photofestival transcends photographic genres to sketch a picture of the relation between man and nature. From 2 September.

Showcasing the Gallery’s Collection and featuring a group of new acquisitions, Sculpture Is Everything explores the extraordinarily diverse and surprising field of contemporary sculpture.

Slavs and Tatars is a collective whose installations, lectures, publications, and multiples focus on relationships between Western cultures and the Eastern world. From 15 August until 10 December.

The inaugural North Atlantic Pavilion brings together artists from Greenland, Iceland and Faroe Islands as part of City States at this yearʼs Liverpool Biennial. It features new works from three artists.

Project 4L/Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art has opened the new outdoor Terrace Exhibition area of 1500 squared meters that will be displaying 23 art works selected from artists’ portfolios.

The brick walls of Tramway’s ground floor gallery on Glasgow’s Albert Drive surround the works of Jannis Kounellis. Exhibited pieces are comprised of wool coats, colourful rugs and burlap sacks.

After the big success of the exhibition made by a group of artists from Hamburg at the A Plus A Slovenian Exhibition Centre in Venice, it is time for five Italian multimedia artists to exhibit in Germany.

One of the Forgotten reflects on the consequences of human nature on man and his environment. In an attempt to investigate the subject, the exhibition features the work of nine young artists.

FreshFaced+WildEyed 2012 is The Photographers’ Gallery’s annual exhibition which showcases the quality and breadth of graduates’ practices from photographic courses across the UK.

The theme of dOCUMENTA (13) speaks of the historical premise of the dOCUMENTA event within the context of a particularly contemporary idea of art, one that acts in the present.

From 8th September to 13th October, the Young Vic presents Benedict Andrews’ new production of Chekhov’s masterpiece of disaster, deception, self-sacrifice and heartbreak Three Sisters.

Grand Union is an artist run project space in the metallic confides of Digbeth, Birmingham. The current exhibition, The Possibility of an Island, focuses on the question of what an ‘island’ is,

In the shadow of Anish Kapoor’s Olympic tower the sun retreats into the horizon casting an orange haze across. It is in the middle of this that Annex East’s current exhibition One One One is housed.

The Australian Institute of Architects will open their Formations: New Practices in Australian Architecture at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennial. From 29 August until 25 November.

Facing The Music is an exhibition focusing on the portraiture and documents of British composers. The collection shows works painted and photographed by a hoard of different artists and assistants.

This group exhibition Fashion! A Selection of Photographs from the Camera Work Collection will present a survey of nine decades of fashion photography. Part of Unseen in Amsterdam.

Tony Cragg at Exhibition Road is a major exhibition of new outdoor sculptures created by one of the most influential British sculptors Tony Cragg for the London 2012 Festival.

To celebrate 50 years of political independence for Trinidad and Tobago, literature producer Melanie Abrahams and composer Dominique Le Gendre have teamed up to stage a free festival.

Shooting from helicopters, this series by Guy Malin has been photographed around the world from the U.S. to Brazil to Australia. Malin was inspired to take aerial shots from a balcony in Las Vegas.

The magic of film lies in its frame-by-frame flickering approximation of life. The stilling of that movement re-directs the viewer’s gaze towards an entirely new reality. Context and meaning are rearranged.

The second edition in the series marking BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art 10th birthday, the exclusive new colour print by Graham Dolphin whose work Fallen Neverland goes on sale 17 August.

John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as “the worlds most famous unknown artist”. 40 years later, her work is undoubtedly more familiar to the world but for some there still remains an air of detachment.

Out of the Blue Art Gallery presents Around Leh, an exhibition of photographs by Nishant Chandra, exploring the splendid and scenic beauty of the Leh region in monotone greys. From 6 August.

SuperMassiveBlackHole is dedicated to contemporary photography and the photographic imagery resulting from the time-based processes found in many interdisciplinary art practices today.

The Design Museum in London have opened Designed to Win looking at the close links between sport and design. Designed to Win celebrates the ways in which design and sport are combined.

The ninth Edinburgh Art Festival launches today with major exhibitions by leading international artists. Edinburgh Art Festival is the UK’s largest annual festival dedicated to visual art.