The creators of the 200 extraordinary works on show in this new art venture are all outsiders; untrained individuals, often socially marginalised and psychologically fragile, whose drive to create powerful, fantastical drawings, paintings,...
Polaroid photographs by artists including Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Walker Evans and others alongside examples of the medium's use in professions such as medicine, filmmaking and fashion. Coincides with the October 2009...
This first retrospective of French conceptualist Calle's work in the UK, 'Talking to Strangers' begins back in 1979 with 'Sleepers', for which she invited 29 people to sleep in her bed as she watched, and 'The Bronx', in which she asked homeless...
Work by 47 emerging artists, this year selected by Ellen Gallagher, Saskia Olde Wolbers, John Stezaker and Wolfgang Tillmans.
Annual fundraising sale of postcard-sized artworks, all for £40, the secret being that you won't know whether the artist is a student or a famous name until you've made your choice. This year's contributors include Bill Viola, Grayson Perry,...
Kapoor has tackled this latest show - and any such criticisms of aesthetic flatlining - head-on, including more new work than tried-and-tested old favourites, trying out big ideas fearlessly. He's also ruined the Royal Academy and the mess is...
Exhibition and charity auction of artworks by 70 designers, musicians and artists, based on photographer Rankin's portraits of famous musicians. Proceeds in aid of Youth Music.
Two-venue show of recent work by the celebrated German artist; see also White Cube Hoxton Square in King's Cross to Shoreditch.
The legacy of Pop Art is explored in this exhibition, which takes Andy Warhol's pronouncement that 'good business is the best art' to look at the ways that artists since the 1980s have engaged with mass culture and cultivated and promoted...
For the past five decades, Ed Ruscha has worked in the space between words and images, exploring how words look and how we 'read' images. Hollywood mythology, The American Dream, religion, the sublime, cerebral sunset stand-offs and cocktail hour...
A reappraisal of religious art from the Spanish Golden Age, including paintings by Velázquez and Zurburán and a selection of seventeenth-century polychrome sculptures, most of which have never been shown outside Spain, that are believed to...
Drawings by the underground, counter-culture artist, part of 'Comica', the London International Comics Festival.
Although Roger Hiorns is odds-on favourite to win, the other artists' shows feel more intriguing, their visual concerns extending beyond simply making their pieces look good. Lucy Skaer's intention is to manipulate how we view things; to strip...
This chronological survey highlights Baldessari's influence not only on the general development of conceptual art but also on later generations of artists. It's the work from the '70s and '80s that best demonstrates his investigative games and...
The UK-born, LA-based artist's killer move is showcased in a series of his cracked-in-transit glass cubes placed on the Fed-Ex boxes they travelled in. Effectively collaborations between Beshty, a transcontinental courier and the hand of chance,...
'Nothing Matters', Damien Hirst unveils more new paintings, including major triptychs, across both White Cube venues (see also White Cube Mason's Yard in Mayfair to Sloane Square).
Polaroid prints to mark the medium's demise, by Marc Quinn, Sarah Moon, Helmut Newton, Andy Warhol and many others. See also Pump House Gallery (Chelsea to Westbourne Park).
Re-opening of Hiorns's Jerwood/Artangel commission to transform a former council flat into a sparkling blue environment of copper sulphate crystals -which has earned him a Turner Prize nomination.
'The Epoch of Perpetual Happiness', new paintings.
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Sixty works, including the prizewinners, selected from this year's award.
Twenty five new paintings by Hirst made between 2006 and 2008, featuring an array of skulls, flowers and butterflies set against dark backgrounds.
'Make it new John', premiere of Glasgow-based artist Duncan Campbell's film telling the story of the DeLorean car, its creator John DeLorean and the workers of the Belfast car plant who built it.
Works 1968-1990 by the conceptual artist best known for his photographic work, who died in 2008.
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'Willy Loman: The Rise and Fall' brings the fate of the protagonist from Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' into the present, for a suite of carnivalesque photographs also inspired by Dante's 'Inferno'.
A new three-part film installation by this American artist, who is renowned for his complex depictions of war and its representations, especially by Hollywood. For 'Nostalgia', Fast turns notions of fear and displacement on their heads in a tale...
Sculpture from Anish Kapoor and a less controversial Turner Prize shortlist than usual - controversy coming instead...
In pure landscape terms, Turner met his match in Claude Lorrain, whose work apparently reduced the cocky cockney to tears. His soft-focus version of Claude comes off all corny and romantic, while his narratives couldn't compete with Rembrandt's...
'George Always', display from Maggi Hambling's recent Walker Art Gallery exhibition of ink drawings and paintings of her late friend George Melly.
New paintings.
The vein of absurd untruth running throughout this installation - which comprises video, posters, an architectural model and other evidence-like sundries - is clearly rooted in 'real' histories transformed into acerbic and elusive conjecture....
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'Embodied', first of three exhibitions, with work four artists including Sigalit Landau and Jessica Lagunas.
Work by Helen Appel, Frank Auerbach, Glenn Brown, Eduardo Paolozzi and others in the Art Now space.
Exhibition exploring nineteenth-century photography, when the medium was still in its infancy.
New wall works made with appropriated media imagery.
The development of British sculpture at the beginning of the twentieth century is charted through the work of Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Eric Gill; the show includes key works such as Epstein's 'Rock Drill' and Gill's controversial...
New paintings and gouaches by the acclaimed artist.
'MTB [Military Training Base]', installation of designs and ideas for a hypothetical military training base.
New works on the theme of the mirror, to coincide with Kapoor's major exhibition at the Royal Academy.
London in the swinging sixties through photographic portraits of The Beatles, David Bowie, Marianne Faithfull, The Rolling Stones, Sandie Shaw and others.
Two-venue show of recent work by the celebrated German artist; see also White Cube Mason's Yard in Mayfair to Sloane Square.
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'The Wall Street 100', large portraits in wax of public figures selected for their perceived level of global economic power. Includes Barak Obama, The Dalai Lama, Kate Moss and Roman Abramovich.
Watch our video round-up from Abstract America Bright young thing from the Lower East Side, Agathe Snow, opens...
The experience of 'How It Is' , Miroslaw Balka's big black box, is of course nothing like as fraught with psychological terror as a one-way ticket to the Holocaust. The artist's constant referencing of this thorny subject is more like a...
Covering the period from the eighteenth century to the end of British rule in 1947, this exhibition looks at the influence of the maharajas and their patronage of the arts through some 250 objects, including thrones, weapons, paintings and jewels.
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