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  • Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings

    Pallant House Gallery, Chichester 16 February–2 June 2013 Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, West Sussex, is showing Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings. The show coincides with the 65th anniversary year of the launch of Britain’s pioneering National Health Service in…

  • The Bloomberg Commission: Giuseppe Penone

    Delicate and poised, spidery and animated, these bronze casts of tree trunks, hollowed out and painted with a radiant gold-leaf interior, seem to prowl the gallery on their spindly branched limbs. This new site-specific work for the Bloomberg Commission, Spazio…

  • Haroon Mirza: Untitled Song

    Retro furniture, disembodied speakers, bits of drum kit, wires and LEDs, Untitled Song is a sculptural installation that traverses boundaries between sound and vision, sculpture and music, analogue and digital. A collaborative effort between James Clarkson and Haroon Mirza, there…

  • An Exhibition to See: Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing

    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford 28 February–19 May 2013

  • Mat Collishaw: THIS IS NOT AN EXIT

    Blain Southern, Hanover Square, London 14 February–30 March 2013

  • Antony Gormley in Belgium

    The sculpture Firmament III (2009) by Antony Gormley has been acquired for the permanent collection of the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp, Belgium. The title of the work is rooted in an ancient word denoting the sky, and Gormley fashioned the…

  • Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in LA

    While Los Angeles’ modern residential architecture is world renowned, the innovative nature of its infrastructure and urban planning, commercial and civic buildings, housing experiments, and other architectural forms is less well-known. Initiated by the Getty, Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture…

  • Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective

    Tate Modern, London 21 February–27 May 2013

  • Portraiture In Focus: Irene Barberis, Anita Taylor and Helen Sturgess

    Langford 120, North Melbourne, Australia 23 March–21 April 2013

  • Un Lugar sin Reposo/A Place with no Rest

    The Guatemalan photographer Luis González Palma, now a resident of Argentina, has a solo exhibition opening at the Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) in Washington, DC, at the end of the month. AMA’s mission is to show artists whose…

  • Kara Walker’s Silhouettes

    The Art Institute of Chicago has inaugurated a newly commissioned installation, Rise Up Ye Mighty Race!, made by American artist Kara Walker, who is known for her use of simple black cut-paper silhouettes to explore provocative themes. With her shadowy…

  • Monir Farmanfarmaian 2004–2013

    Work created in the last decade by Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian is the focus of a show at The Third Line, a contemporary Middle Eastern art gallery in Dubai. Nearly 90 years old, Farmanfarmaian still tirelessly produces her eclectic…

  • Antoni Tàpies

    Timothy Taylor Gallery, London 7 March–13 April 2013

  • A Post-Modern Renaissance Rooted in Tradition

    Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design Museum of Arts and Design, New York City 19 March–7 July 2013

  • Joe Tilson: A Survey

    Marlborough Fine Art, London 6 March–5 April 2013

  • Schwitters In Britain

    Tate Britain, London 30 January–12 May 2013

  • Giorgio Morandi: Lines of Poetry

    To celebrate its 15th anniversary year, the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art is hosting a career-spanning exhibition of one of its most popular artists: Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964). Focusing on his works on paper, and including around 80 drawings, watercolours…

  • Charles Harrison in Retrospect

    Charles Harrison: Looking Back Published by Ridinghouse, London, 2011

  • Susan Hiller: Channels

    Matt’s Gallery, London 13 February–14 April 2013

  • Jay Defeo: a Retrospective

    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 28 February–2 June 2013

  • Embanking the Sublime The Unilever Series: Rachel Whiteread

    Rachel Whiteread is the most successful and original artist to have filled the big space at Tate Modern, the Turbine Hall. Her white landscape of cubic boxes offers the museum-goer something of a dreamland

  • Arthur Watson: poetic conceptualist

    The work of Arthur Watson plays an important role in contemporary Scottish art. Characterised by a ‘poetic conceptualism’, Watson draws from a range of idiosyncratic experiences and predilections, all of which seem to be linked to his intimate knowledge of…

  • Tan Dun’s ‘Visual Music’

    Shanghai Gallery of Art, April – May 2005 My first encounter with Tan Dun was through his multimedia concerto grosso ‘The Map’ last October in Shanghai. He still used the usual western musical instruments, however, what left a deep impression…

  • Cy Twombly: Philosophy in Paint

    Cy Twombly: Philosophy in Paint Cy Twombly Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh 9 August-27 October 2002.