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The Bowes Museum, a grand nineteenth-century chateau in the historic Durham market town of Barnard Castle, is the British venue for a touring exhibition of photography that contextualises the famously turbulent relationship of painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera with the social and political changes of their native Mexico.

The first exhibition to focus solely on Bridget Riley’s seminal black-and-white works from the early 1960s is presented across two West End galleries until mid-July: Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert in St James’s and Karsten Schubert in Soho’s Golden Square.

This week: The 'strange visual soup' of Gert & Uwe Tobias at Whitechapel Gallery; recent paintings by Basil Beattie RA on show in Bath; John Riddy's photographs of Palermo; Whistler on the Thames and the long-awaited reopening of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum.

Although the Edinburgh Festival every summer is synonymous with theatre, comedy and other performance arts, the Scottish capital has increasingly become a visual arts destination each August, thanks to an array of ambitious gallery exhibitions and site-specific commissions under the auspices of the Edinburgh Art Festival.

Artists’ films are works made by visual artists rather than traditional filmmakers, and more often than not they are seen in art galleries and museums rather than in cinemas. But the ICA in London has for the past five years run the Artists' Film Club, a programme that uses the institution’s quality cinema spaces to project significant developments in the medium.

Not long ago, the visually aware among us could travel to the Edinburgh Festival knowing that – for one city break at least – art exhibitions could be forsaken for the pleasures of a pint and a stand-up or sketch show. But over the last decade a visual art festival has sprung up and slowly built momentum, to the point where any art-loving visitor to Edinburgh now has top-quality shows on offer as...

The most successful Swiss import into America in recent years is not a type of chocolate or clock but an art fair, Art Basel Miami Beach. A sister to Art Basel since 2002, the fair has fast become one of the most influential in the international art calendar and acts as a magnet for collectors, curators, artists and art professionals for a handful of days.

This week sees some art sales take centre stage at Christie’s for those looking to invest in a special fine art gift for themselves or their loves ones.

Celebrating its 25th year, the London Art Fair (LAF) opened to the public yesterday in its usual location, the Business Design Centre in Upper Street.

Ahead of the Academy’s ‘Australia’ exhibition this autumn, which will be the first survey of Australian art in over half a century in the UK, there is a chance this weekend to view in London highlights from the most significant private collection of the country’s modern and contemporary indigenous and non-indigenous art.

This weekend at Sotheby’s in London, a presentation puts the ceramics of Pablo Picasso under the spotlight, with over 100 plates, bowls, pitchers, tiles and vases produced by the titan of modern art late in life.

'Out of Focus' is the first survey exhibition of photography that the Saatchi Gallery has presented since 'I Am a Camera' (2001), a show that was well-received by critics but caused distracting headlines for its presentation of pictures by Tierney Gearon featuring her two young children in the nude (public complaints caused the police to visit the gallery).

Four recent works by the Melbourne-born, British-based artist Ron Mueck (pronounced ‘Mew-eck’) are on view for a month at Hauser & Wirth on Saville Row.

Howard Hodgkin’s obsession with Indian art of the Mughal period (c.1560–1858) predates his career as a painter – he acquired his first Mughal work while still in short trousers, aged fourteen. Today his collection of approximately 115 paintings is considered one of the finest of its kind in private hands. This Sunday is the last opportunity to see the collection in its entirety, when its presentation...

The representations in 'Galápagos', a new group exhibition at the Bluecoat in Liverpool, presents a more complex picture of the archipelago than the images we are most familiar with.

The V&A has just opened a mid-career retrospective of the work of Thomas Heatherwick, whose studio has emerged over the last two decades as one of the country’s most experimental design practices.

Budapest’s Museum of Fine Arts (Szépmüvészeti Múzeum) has loaned Pablo Picasso’s watercolour 'Mother and Child' (1905) and Artemisia Gentileschi’s oil 'Jael and Sisera' (1620) to Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery until February 2013. The gallery’s Curator of European Fine Art, Xanthe Brooke, tells Sam Phillips why the two works fascinate her.

Our fascination with the Roman ruins of Pompeii is fuelled by both our interest in remnants of an antique era and our awe at how such a vibrant city – in just a matter of hours – could be entombed by a natural disaster and lost for centuries. The British Museum’s new blockbuster exhibition does a balancing act by focusing squarely on the eruption of Vesuvius in its first and last sections, while...

A truly cinematic art experience is on offer tonight at both multiplexes and art-house establishments across the country. As part of ‘Exhibition’, a series of films on great gallery shows, a feature-length documentary takes viewers behind-the-scenes of the Royal Academy’s ‘Manet: Portraying Life’.

Leon Kossoff has been drawings and painting scenes of London in the same frenetic, expressionistic style for more than six decades. But looking at his latest works in the catalogue for his new show at Annely Juda Fine Art, there is no sense that his recent pieces are in any way anachronistic.

The poetic paintings of Per Kirkeby play out in a no man’s land between abstraction and figuration – a territory that the viewer finds hard to map.

As well as solo and group exhibitions across the city’s public and private galleries, the week of Frieze Art Fair has also seen three smaller ‘satellite’ fairs open up in an effort to attract some of the many art lovers who are out in force in the capital.

Frieze Week is upon us – and the word ‘Week’ deserves its capital letter, if one considers how the annual Frieze Art Fair in Regent’s Park spurs the whole London art scene to launch simultaneous exhibitions and art events. Here’s the lowdown on RA Magazine’s top ten exhibitions opening their doors away from the Regent’s Park tent.

RA Schools’ students tend to see their three years of postgraduate study as a period to develop their work away from the glare of galleries and critics. But London-born artist Eddie Peake (b. 1981) has combined his time so far on the course with high-profile forays into the hyped-up wider art world.

Rather than the reverent silence one anticipates on a visit to an art gallery, last Saturday as I walked into White Cube Bermondsey a sound system was banging out UK bass music. In a large gallery in front of the public, artist Eddie Peake was rehearsing a performance piece, in which – to live music played by two musicians – a small group of dancer-actors made shapes to high-tempo beats, writhed...

RA Magazine featured British painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye last year in an article that caught up with graduates of the RA Schools. The London-born artist, who left the Schools in 2003, has a solo show on view until 13 May at Chisenhale Gallery, a space in the east of the city which has built an international reputation over 30 years for its enlightened contemporary art programme.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye was today announced as a nominee for the Turner Prize 2013, a decade after she completed a post-graduate course at the Royal Academy Schools.

Tom Hunter stages photographic scenes in response to both art-historical paintings and the conditions of his home borough of London, Hackney.

Irish artist-filmmaker Gerard Byrne, the subject of a new survey show at the Whitechapel, specialises in historical reenactment, focusing not so much on key events of popular history but lesser-known culture moments.

Tracey Emin RA’s returns home to Margate from Saturday with a major exhibition at Turner Contemporary.

This summer’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion has been conceived by the celebrated Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron in collaboration with the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei Hon RA, the design team responsible for the iconic ‘Birds Nest’ Beijing National Stadium at the 2008 Olympic Games.

Such is the ubiquity of Henry Moore’s sculpture in parks and other public spaces, and so central to the canon of twentieth-century British art has his work become, that I visited the show of his late, large-scale sculptures at London’s Gagosian Gallery with no expectations of surprise. But the exhibition is surprising...

New York-based artist Jenny Holzer came to prominence in the late 1970s and 1980s, developing a form of text-based art that emphasised the socio-political status of public communication, in contrast to some of the more impenetrable language-based work of her conceptualist peers. Until the end of July, Sprüth Magers in the West End of London presents a solo exhibition that provides an interesting...

Twenty years since Rachel Whiteread's masterpiece 'House', she has been commissioned to produce a permanent piece - a frieze installed on the façade of London’s Whitechapel Gallery. The work was unveiled last week and characteristically involves casting negative spaces and replicating elements of buildings and objects, using the Whitechapel’s existing turn-of-the-century ornamentation as her inspiration...

The Tokyo-born artist, musician, poet, performer and peace activist Yoko Ono is the subject of the Serpentine Gallery’s summer exhibition. Before she became a household name in the late 1960s for her relationship with John Lennon, Ono established herself as a pioneer of the type of multidisciplinary conceptual practice that was define avant-garde art over the following decades.

American artist Bruce Nauman was mentioned briefly on this blog a few weeks’ back in connection with the screening of his early video and performance art at White Cube Bermondsey. Another strand of the pioneering media artist’s work is on display this week at the ICA in the form of Days (2009), a sound work in the venue’s ground floor gallery.

Chichester’s Pallant House Gallery celebrates the relationship between pop music and Pop art this summer with four related shows. Two are monographic exhibitions, concentrating on Peter Blake RA and Derek Boshier and their close relationships with musical culture. Another display entitled ‘Artist Pop Stars’ showcases the artwork of musician-artists, such as Bryan Ferry and Ian Dury (once a student...

Since 2004 Warwickshire’s Compton Verney – an eighteenth-century Georgian mansion set in stunning Capability Brown-designed grounds – has staged high-quality art exhibitions comprised of loans from national collections. Today it opens what looks to be a fascinating summer show on the subject of flight.

The largest public gallery in London has just got larger. The Photographers’ Gallery opens its doors to the public again this Saturday in its Ramillies Street home – around the corner from Oxford Circus – after a major renovation project by acclaimed Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey that includes a two-storey extension.

‘Bold Tendencies’ is the country’s most unconventional summer sculpture park, an annual exhibition over the top floors of a multi-storey car park in Peckham in South London, a short walk from Peckham Rye train station. Rather than rolling hills or picturesque forests, the works of the participating artists respond each year to a grimy example of Brutalist inner-city architecture. Posted 6 July 2012...

Following their presentation in a grand columned space at St Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum, Antony Gormley RA’s series of cast-iron figures ‘Still Standing’ (2010–11) comes to London for an exhibition at White Cube’s Hoxton Square gallery, on view now until the autumn.

The works of Simon Patterson take a wry look at our conventional classification systems and hierarchies. In his new exhibition Patterson has collected photographs of around 30 equestrian statues examining their relationships and status as symbols of national identity. Posted 16 July 2012 by Sam Phillips

The curved walls that spiral inside the Norman Foster RA-designed City Hall on the bank of the Thames form a suitable stage for a photography exhibition that examines the avant-garde architectural environment of Russia.

The first stage of Tate Modern’s long-term expansion project opened to the public on Wednesday in the form of The Tanks: subterranean spaces, formerly vast oil containers for the Bankside power station, which have been reclaimed for the presentation of art.

Keep an eye out for the time on Friday morning. At 8.12am, when you might normally be spreading butter on your toast, waiting for the bus or – in a perfect world – still in blissful sleep, one of the most ambitious performance art works the UK has ever seen will be underway, and you could take part.

I approached the British Museum’s new exhibition about Shakespeare, ‘Shakespeare: Staging the World’ with a touch of trepidation if not downright doubt. How could an array of objects about Shakespeare add anything to his plays? I emerged from the show well and truly put in my place.

Alison Wiliding RA's pieces are always alert to real world associations, through both their shapes and their materials. Her series 'Drone' is currently on view at London's Karsten Schubert gallery.

Nowhere Less Now, by British artist Lindsay Seers, is the latest major commission by Artangel, the organisation acclaimed for producing groundbreaking contemporary art projects in unlikely places.

The UK’s most important contemporary art festival kicked off last weekend in Liverpool. Comprised of group exhibitions and specially commissioned site-specific projects across the city, this year’s Liverpool Biennial – now in its seventh edition and led by a new director, Sally Tallant, formerly of London’s Serpentine Gallery – has seen a variety of interesting venues open to the public in the name...

Sam Phillips hails this monumental exhibition of international contemporary art and picks out some highlights of the 100-day event.

Sam Phillips assesses the four nominees for this year's Turner Prize as their work goes on show at Tate Britain.

The Serpentine’s new survey show of the work of German artist Thomas Schütte is subtitled ‘Faces and Figures’, but the torsos and limbs of the human body are rarely present in the exhibition.

Although featuring recognisable forms such as buildings and figures in landscapes, the rich and romantic paintings of the Scottish-born, Trinidad-based artist Peter Doig seem less a record of the world than an attempt to paint memories, or maybe dreams.

Beijing-based painter Zeng Fanzhi – the subject of a solo exhibition at London’s Gagosian Gallery – emerged to acclaim in the mid-1990s. His more recent works have probed the psychological potential of landscape.

New York’s Pace gallery has leased a London outpost in the Royal Academy of Arts' Burlington Gardens and has opened with a museum-quality inaugural show: a two-person exhibition that compares and contrasts American Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko with the contemporary Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto.

I urge you to visit a magnificent show of large-scale sculptures by the Los Angeles-based British artist Thomas Houseago in the next week, before the exhibition – on view at Savile Row’s Hauser & Wirth – closes on 27 October.

The Whitechapel Gallery has just opened the first major survey show in Britain of Mel Bochner, one of an influential group of New York-based artists who, from the 1960s, pioneered conceptual art.

The Affordable Art Fair (AAF) opens in a temporary structure in Battersea Park tomorrow. The fair has been staged annually every autumn in the South London park since October 1999, but in the past thirteen years the AAF brand has also become a global phenomenon, spreading to cities across the world including Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York, Seattle, Hong Kong, Singapore, Amsterdam, Brussels, Hamburg...

The continued buoyancy of the global Asian art and antiquities market, and the British capital’s preeminent place within it, is reflected by Asian Art in London, a ten-day festival of sales and events on the subject that now celebrates its fifteenth year.

This Sunday the doors close on an engaging exhibition by Chicagoan artist and designer Theaster Gates, on view at White Cube’s impressive space on Bermondsey Street.

Ben Uri Gallery holds approximately 1300 works by artists mainly of Jewish descent – including Marc Chagall, Chaïm Soutine, Sonia Delaunay, Mark Gertler and Sandra Blow RA – making it London’s Jewish Museum of Art.

Tony Cragg RA follows up his treasure hunt of large-scale sculptures around London’s Exhibition Road with an exhibition at the Lisson Gallery until mid-January. But the show’s gallery context does not mean a reduction in ambition; the exhibition is ‘almost boiling over with energy’, presenting highly dynamic works from this year that develop further the types of forms seen in South Kensington.

If you have any plans to wander around and wonder at the autumn leaves in Richmond Park this month, then tie in a trip with a visit to Richmond Hill Gallery, which has a show of works on paper – paintings, monotypes, carborundums and screenprints – by Academician Barbara Rae.

The preeminent French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson was scathing about the possibilities of colour photography, claiming in Le Monde that the ‘only good colour photo I have taken’, which appeared on the cover of the celebrated Camera magazine in 1954, was ‘too self-consciously aesthetic’. A fascinating free exhibition at Somerset House takes Cartier-Bresson’s attitudes towards colour as a challenge...

The Royal College of Art’s expansive survey of artworks from past staff and alumni touches upon so many of the key artists, architects and designers this country has produced over the last 175 years that, rather than a focused show on teaching methods and the experiences of students, it presents as a potted but pretty comprehensive history of modern British art.

Marlborough Fine Art on Albemarle Street, off Piccadilly, celebrates the 80th birthday of Quentin Blake this month with an exhibition of works on paper from this year. I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t adore Blake’s idiosyncratic illustrations, their affection first blossoming while reading a Roald Dahl book as a child or to a child. But the Marlborough show presents another side of Blake’s output...

Since its foundation in 1993, Michael Hoppen Gallery in Chelsea has collected, presented, promoted, sold and published photography in all its myriad forms, becoming one of London’s most influential advocates for the medium.

“Sound is the opposite of an art which privileges the eye.” Haroon Mirza’s new exhibition of sound-art installations at London’s Lisson Gallery challenges this preconception, with an examination of how audio’s intrinsic qualities ally with our perceptions of space.

Print and printmaking has been as integral to the career of American artist Ed Ruscha as painting; the Los Angeleno and Honorary Royal Academician developed his obsession with the appearance of words while working as a typesetter at an advertising agency in the 1960s, and he has long produced books, book art, screenprints and lithographs alongside canvases.

Bologna-born Giorgio Morandi was arguably the finest painter of still lifes in the twentieth century. He represented arrangements of bottles on a table in simplistic perspective and muted palette, but somehow – without trickery – he always achieved a kind of alchemy, by which such everyday items became endowed with a spiritual aura once on the canvas. Encountering a Morandi painting can be a mesmeric...

Long before Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth settled in St Ives in 1939, encouraging many other liked-minded modernists to the Cornish coast, the town, together with Newlyn, had been a magnet for nineteenth-century British artists, especially painters influenced by the Barbizon and Impressionists schools across the English School.

Could this be the ultimate date exhibition? When I visited ‘Light Show’ at the Hayward on Friday night, there were an inordinate amount of couples ‘ooh’-ing and ‘aah’-ing in front of the awe-inducing light installations scattered around the gallery spaces.

The first exhibition dedicated to the connections between the work of Francis Bacon and Auguste Rodin opens tomorrow at Ordovas on Savile Row. The show, which features three works from each artist, pivots on some research that suggests a series of reclining figures by Bacon were inspired by two of the sculptor’s sculptures: 'Figure volante' and 'Iris, messagère des dieux' (both 1890–91).

In 2013 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, while recognised as a major figure of Spanish Golden Age art, has been eclipsed in the minds of connoisseurs. Now, two new exhibitions at Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Wallace Collection give a rare chance for us to reconsider his worth.

Taryn Simon's exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in Mayfair sees her turn towards an existing index: the image archive of the New York Public Library, which contains over 1.2 million printed images.

Kutlug Ataman's latest work in London, an 80-minute double-screen projection at Thomas Dane Gallery, leaves the Turkish metropolis for a remote village in Anatolia. But an even more marked departure is his movement from documentary to fiction.

Since the earliest stages of his career in the 1940s, the paintings of the late Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies Hon RA have comprised of much more than just oil on canvas. Timothy Taylor Gallery’s presentation of ten works from Tàpies’ last two decades reminds us of the artistic gold this Barcelona-born alchemist was able to refine from the most unrefined materials.

The National Gallery’s exhibition of sixteenth-century Italian painter Federico Barocci is the first major monographic show on the artist. It affords an opportunity for many to discover an artist who, in his own time, enjoyed great popularity but has since had his star eclipsed by others.

Where does one travel when one listens to music? And can any sonic journey – an expedition into what Schopenhauer called “the inexpressible depth of music” – ever find representation in one’s physical disorientation within space?

Looking at a catalogue for the Ashmolean’s new exhibition of their world-class collection of drawings, the pieces of paper appear like a level playing field: from Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo to Rubens, Watteau and Gainsborough, all the artists – in a sense – have the same limited tools.

Los Angeles-based Sterling Ruby salvages materials for his multidisciplinary and mixed-media works not from rubbish dumps but from his own studio. In the artist’s new series ‘Basin Theology’, on display as part of his solo show this month at Hauser & Wirth’s Savile Row space, shallow and scorched circular vessels are fused with the broken fragments of previous aborted pottery pieces.

The Brazilian-born photographer Sebastião Salgado has gained both popular and critical acclaim in the Western world for his hauntingly beautiful black-and-white prints that document people living and working on the edge in less developed nations. His new photographic series, ‘Genesis’, premiered at London’s Natural History Museum last week.

If painter Paul Klee 'took a line for a walk’, then sculptor Alexander Calder took a line for a dance. His signature mobile sculptures – the highlights of an exhibition of the American artist at Pace London – move musically in all directions, their multiple metal lines curving with the energy and grace of a ballerina, their biomorphic shapes suggesting the expressive flourishes of a jazz dancer...

Charles Saatchi’s new exhibition at his Chelsea gallery follows the advertising mogul’s previous attempts to define the nation’s art scene, in shows such as ‘Newspeak: British Art Now’ (2010 and 2011) and, of course, ‘Sensation’, which was held at the Royal Academy in 1997.

New York-based painter Julie Mehretu has emerged over the last decade as a significant figure in the US contemporary art scene, and her large-scale abstract works were the subject of an exhibition in 2010 at the city’s Guggenheim Museum. So it is something of a surprise to learn that White Cube Bermondsey’s current show is her first major presentation in the British capital.

This weekend Brighton Museum and Art Gallery opened a stellar survey of Koons’s works from the collection of gallerist Anthony d'Offay, acquired for the Tate and National Galleries of Scotland as part of the Artist Rooms programme. D'Offay collected pieces from across Koons’ oeuvre, making the exhibition a fine overview of the artist’s practice.

About Chillida it’s been said that his works are not in space but that they are space,' wrote the late Carlos Fuentes. It is hard to disagree after an encounter with Chillida’s alabaster works on view at Ordovas, which presents the first London gallery exhibition of the Basque sculptor for almost two decades.

In American artist Bill Viola's nine-channel installation Chapel of Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures (2013), on view at Blain Southern’s show of his latest works, nine episodes unfold in simply sketched-out, quotidian environments. Viola moves from the general towards the particular, with everyday actions as his subject - such as the digging of a hole, or the pouring of water in a bowl.

Since his first installations in the late 1960s, Californian artist Robert Irwin has taken the perceptual experience of the viewer as his subject, and the art object as something that, in his terminology, is 'conditional' – intrinsically connected to the changeable conditions of its environment.

When painter Laura Knight became a Royal Academician in 1936 she was the first female to be elected with full membership status since 1768. A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery explores the unsentimentalised emotional presence and visual strength of her portraiture.

This week: an exhibition of recent work by Eileen Cooper RA opens at Art First, Alan Cristea shows prints by Richard Serra, James Welling is at Maureen Paley, an exhibition of works by Jonathan Yeo opens at the National Portrait Gallery and Sotheby's present a selection of sculpture at Chatsworth

Royal Academician Richard Deacon challenges the idea that ‘the whole is more the sum of its parts’ in an exhibition of recent sculptures at the Lisson Gallery. The geometric constructions on view are all comprised of a series of smaller polygonal components that assert their integrity with each structure.

In this week's wrapup: Don't miss Jeremy Deller and David Shrigley at the Hayward; last chance to catch Blek le Rat's pioneering street art at Opera Gallery; Flights of Fancy in Cheshire's Tatton Park; two art fairs in London and an exhibition of automatic drawing.

This week: Munch opens at Tate Modern, the Whitechapel Gallery presents 'The London Open', Masterpiece London opens and your last chance to see the RCA graduate shows.

A Pop Art conference at the ICA; Juan Muñoz at Frith Street Gallery; Glasgow's International Festival of Visual Art; last chance to see Joan Mitchell at Hauser & Wirth and a new exhibition at the National Maritime Museum celebrates Power, Pageantry and the Thames.

A major exhibition of Leonardo's anatomical drawings, Picasso's Vollard Suite at the British Museum, last chance to see vintage photography of ancient ruins at James Hyman Gallery and exhibitions featuring Royal Academicians Anne Desmet and Philip Sutton are all in this week's wrap-up.

Several standout shows, Lucian Freud at the National Portrait Gallery, Alighiero Boetti at the Tate Modern and Louise Bourgeois at the Freud Museum, close this week. Plus, ex-RA Schools student Rachael Champion has organised an afternoon of activities at the Camden Arts Centre and Damien Hirst and Bruce Nauman go on show at the White Cube.

A Bond Street art stroll, John Piper at Dorchester Abbey, Stan Douglas at Victoria Miro, Giuseppe Cavalli at the Estorick Collection and Marcus Coates's film installation at Elephant & Castle.

In this week's wrapup: Don't miss Mondrian║Nicholson: In Parallel at the Courtauld; art institutions across the country open their doors for the Museums at Night festival; Stratford Underground station is brightened up by Who is Community? and The Triumph of Pleasure opens at the Foundling Museum.

In this week's wrapup: Howard Hodgkin shows at Alan Cristea, James Hyman Fine Art celebrate Derrick Greaves's 85th birthday, Hauser and Wirth show an exhibition of Guillermo Kuitca, A memorial exhibition for Adrian Berg RA opens at Pallant House and ex-RA Schools student Veronica Smirnoff presents recent works at Gallery Vela

This week: Polly Morgan at All Visual Arts, Nancy Holt shows at Haunch of Venison, Haroon Mirza wins the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, SNAP 2012 comes to the Aldeburgh music festival and Shirazeh Houshiary goes on show at Lisson Gallery.

This week: 'Renaissance to Goya' opens at the British Museum, The David Roberts Art Foundation opens, the London Art Book Fair takes place at the Whitechapel Gallery, Rita Ackermann goes on show at Hauser and Wirth and 'Garden of Reason' closes at Ham House.

This week: George Osodi at Liverpool's International Slavery Museum, Leah Gordon shows a series of new photographs at Riflemaker, recent paintings by Academician Barbara Rae is on display at Adam Gallery in Bath, Gillian Wearing RA at the Whitechapel Gallery closes on Sunday and Invisible Art goes on show at the Hayward Gallery.

This week: Tate launches a new online gallery of lost art, contemporary sculture goes on show at Chelsea Physic Garden, The Bruce Lace Experience opens at Camden Arts Centre, Frank Bowling RA goes on show at Eleven Spitalfields, former RA Schools student Francesca Lowe's solo exhibition opens at Riflemaker, Romuald Hazoumè opens at the October Gallery and Edward Allington and Vaughan Grylls are...

This week: Contemporary artists' take on Titian go on show in 'Metamorphosis' at the National Gallery, Julian Opie opens at the Lisson Gallery, the Regent's Canal Festival features 70 contemporary artists across the waterway, the nominees for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize go on display at the Photographers' Gallery and Peter Blake goes on display at both Paul Stolper and the Fine Art Society...

This week: Damián Ortega opens at White Cube Mason's Yard, printmaker Alan Kitching goes on show at Advanced Graphic London, Leeds' Henry Moore Institute takes a new look at Sarah Lucas, the celebration of print studio Paupers Press moves up to Northumbria University and Edinburgh National Gallery explore the influence of Symbolism in 'Van Gogh to Kandinsky'.

This week: The Photographer's Gallery shows 'The World in London', it's the last chance to see Mary Ramsden at Pilar Corrias, Thomas Houseago goes on show at the Sainsbury Centre, 'Calder in India' closes its doors at Ordovas gallery and Jeremy Deller's Sacrilege tours the parks of London.

This week: Mark Wallinger shows at Baltic, 'Francis Bacon to Paula Rego' opens at Abbot Hall, Carlson Gallery opens a new space in Mayfair, Timothy Taylor gallery show works by Diane Arbus and your last chance to see Calder at Crane Kalman. Plus, the latest openings of Royal Academician's shows.

This week: Street art celebrating 150 years since the birth of Gustav Klimt, Richard Parry's Elephant Paintings at Bloomberg SPACE and last chance to see John Currin at Sadie Coles.

Galleries and museums are wisely avoiding opening any major shows during the Olympic fortnight, for the fear they might sink without a trace in a nation gripped by sporting fever. RA Magazine's Sam Phillips offers his picks of the best shows around London coming to a close over the next two weeks, from Grayson Perry at Victoria Miro to British Design at the V&A.

This week: Cork Street Open goes on show and the last chance to see Zhang Huan at White Cube Bermondsey, 'Billie Cowie: The Revery Alone' at the Wapping Project, Annex East closes its first exhibition and the doors close on 'Gravity and Disgrace' at Blain Southern.

This week: 'Carving in Britain' opens at The Fine Art Society, Blain Southern shows works by Francesco Celemente, the Serpentine Gallery displays a survey of Jonas Mekas, William Burroughs is at the October Gallery and Valentino goes on show at Somerset House

This week: Thea Djordjadze opens at Sprüth Magers, David Blandy features in the Brighton Digital Festival, Alexandre da Cunha goes on show at the THomas Dane Gallery, HaYoung Kim is at Hoxton Art Gallery and RAs show in 'Sculptor's Drawings'.

This week: 'The Art of Chess' opens at the Saatchi Gallery, Daido Moriyama's photographs are on display at the Michael Hoppen Gallery, Annely Juda shows painting by John Golding and Adam Dant presents his latest work at Hales Gallery.

This week: Mali Morris RA opens at Eagle Gallery, Robert Motherwell's prints go on show at Bernard Jacobson, Aspen Magazine goes on show at the Whitechapel Gallery, the winner of the Jerwood Drawing Prize is announced, and Michael Kidner RA is on display at Flowers East.

This week: Abbot Hall celebrate 50 years with an exhibition of Hughie O'Donoghue, Maurizio Cattelan opens at the Whitechapel Gallery, Rashid Johnson goes on display at the South London Gallery, Chisenhale Gallery show work by Ed Atkins, Eric Bainbridge and Simon Martin go on show at the Camden Arts Centre, Elmgreen & Dragset are at Victoria Miro and The Wild the beautiful and the Damned closes at...

New shows opening ahead of Frieze week include Belgian painter Luc Tuymans; a show that pairs Lucian Freud and the Baroque Bolognese painter Annibale Carracci; Gillian Ayres RA at Jerwood Gallery, ceramics by Edmund de Waal at Alan Cristea and Barbican's experiential Rain Room.

This week: Ruth Borchard's collection goes on show at Kings Place Gallery, catch Toby Ziegler's Q Park installation before it closes, it's the last chance to see Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin at Paradise Row, The Lost Prince opens at the NPG and an exhibition on Art and Vodou begins on Saturday at Nottingham Contemporary.

This week: Cedric Morris and Christopher Wood at Norwich Castle Museum, last chance to see group show 'Edge of Arabia', Cathy Wilkes and Shio Kusaka go on show at The Modern Institute, Goshka Macuga at Kate MacGarry closes this weekend and Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings opens at Hepworth Wakefield

This week: 'Seduced by Art' opens at the National Gallery, The Queen's Gallery displays work from the Northern Renaissance, Jean Dubuffet goes on display at Pallant House, Artangel restage Stifter's Dinge and Paradise Row shows work by Anna Bjerger

This week: 'Light from the Middle East' opens at the V&A, 'A Bigger Splash' begins at Tate Modern, White Cube display works by Josiah McElheny, films by William Kentridge are at Tate Tanks and Hauser & Wirth show recent works by Isa Genzken.

This week: Alan Cristea show works by Gillian Ayres RA, 'Death: A Self-portrait' opens at the Wellcome Collection, catch 'The Art of Remembrance' on iplayer, the winners of the BJP International Photography Award go on show at Foto8 Gallery and a display of Ansel Adams is at the National Maritime Museum.

This week: The Piper Gallery presents Abstract Paintings from the Seventies, Josephsohn goes on show at Hauser and Wirth, Florian Hecker is at Sadie Coles HQ and pop-up shop House of Voltaire opens in Mayfair

This week: Hong Kong artists display work at Saatchi Gallery, snap up Christmas gifts at the RCA fête and The New Craftsman's pop-up shop, Flowers Gallery shows a selection of small-scale work by artists from Tom Phillips RA to Bryan Kneale RA, RIchard Green Gallery celebrate Alfred Munnings PPRA and an exhibition exploring the relationship between Eduardo Paolozzi RA and Nigel Henderson opens at...

This week: From Death to Death opens at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, SLG reveals the work of Sanja Iveković, it's your last chance to see Richard Hughes at Tramway, Ruskin's Landscape is on display in Force of Nature at Museums Sheffield and the doors close on Winifred Nicholson at Kettle's Yard.

This week: Whitworth shows landscapes by John Piper, Juergen Teller is at the ICA, Schwitters in Britain opens at Tate Britain, 'Tessa Traeger: Chemistry of Light' is at Purdy Hicks, Sadie Coles HQ shows an installation of works by Angus Fairhurst, it's the last chance to see Helen Marten at Chisenhale Gallery, works by Richard Wentworth are on show at Lisson Gallery and Hauser and Wirth explore...

This week: Jessica Warboys's film 'Pageant Roll' is screened at the Whitechapel Gallery, Kings Place Gallery presents a survey show of John Lessore, and it's your last chance to see a number of shows this Sunday, including Pre-Raphaelites at Tate Britain, Peter Lely at the Courtauld and The Lost Prince at the National Portrait Gallery.

This week: Timothy Taylor Gallery presents new works by Fiona Rae RA, collaborative works by Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra are on display at One Canada Square, the Contemporary Art Society opens a new space in East London, Eastside Projects in Birmingham feature sculpture by Mike Nelson and the Abbot Hall Art Gallery showcase contemporary artist, Uwe Wittwer.

This week: Richard Prince opens at Sadie Coles HQ, Haunch of Venison display works by Thomas Joshua Cooper, Kraftwerk perform in the Tate's Turbine Hall and 'Knock Knock: Seven Artists in Hastings' goes on show at the Jerwood Gallery.

This week: 'Ice Age Art' opens at the British Museum, portraits by Man Ray go on display at the NPG, Luxembourg & Lacan displays work by Michelangelo Pistoletto, 'Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos' is at the Serpentine and work by Susan Hiller is on show at Matt's Gallery

This week: Alan Cristea shows work by Julian Opie, 'Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901' opens at the Courtauld Gallery, an exhibition of works by Raqib Shaw goes on show at Manchester Art Gallery, Mark Leckey curates a new exhibition at The Bluecoat, Liverpool and a retrospective of sculptor Elisabeth Frink RA opens at The Lightbox, Woking.

This week: Works by Albert Oehlen go on show at the Zabludowicz Collection, new art fair Art13 opens at London's Olympia, a selection of works by Craigie Aitchison are at Waddington Custot Galleries, works from Central Asia and the Causcasus are exhibited at Sotheby's and exhibitions of R.B. Kitaj and Yinka Shonibare open.

This week: Works by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye are on show at Corvi-Mori, an exhibition of Royal Academicians opens at Richmond Hill, Chatsworth House display paintings, drawings and sculpture by Wiliam Turnbull RA, 'RCA Secret' opens and Anne Purkiss' photographs of Royal Academicians go on display at Leighton House Museum.

This week: Pae White creates a new installation at the South London Gallery, Jenna Burlingham Fine Art display work by Peter Greenham RA, photographs by Julian Anderson go on show at blackShed Gallery, Matt Calderwood: Paper Over the Cracks opens at Baltic, Alan Cristea show work by Jan Dibbets and Flowers open two shows of works by Tai-Shan Schierenberg and Tom Hammick.

This week: Phyllida Barlow opens at the Contemporary Arts Society, the ICA opens two shows focusing on art groups, an exhibition of works focusing on natural forms opens at Harewood House, Hatfield House showcases the sculpture of six RAs and Moore Rodin opens at Perry Green.

This week: The Foundling Museum displays the hidden stories of the Foundling Hospital, Richard Deacon curates an exhibition of Garth Evans at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, an exhibition on Kenneth Anger goes on display at Sprüth Magers London and works by Geoffrey Farmer go on show at the Barbican.

Andy Warhol experimented with celluloid in the mid-1960s, at the same time the New York pop pioneer was perfecting his silkscreen paintings. Three of the resulting 16mm films are on view in recently restored prints at the ICA this weekend.

This week: Royal Academicians are on view across the UK, Art First shows former RA Schools student Liane Lang, works by Celia Paul are on display at Marlborough Fine Art, Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi are at Chisenhale Gallery and an exhibition of new works by Rachel Whiteread opens at Gagosian.

This week: Gary Hume and Patrick Caulfield exhibitions open at Tate Britain and Waddington Custot, Sheila Hicks opens at Alison Jacques Gallery, the Design Museum show Lesser Known Architecture, Tim Rollins and K.O.S. go on show at Maureen Paley and it's your last chance to catch an exhibition of Geoff Uglow at Connaught Brown

This week: Lucy and Jorge Orta reveal their new artwork at St Pancras Station, the works nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize go on show at The Photographers' Gallery, an exhibition of work by Richard Patterson opens at Timothy Taylor Gallery and new art space The Dairy opens

This week: Towner Gallery display works by Fiona Rae RA, Gavin Turk is a Ben Brown Fine Arts, an exhibition of Paul Pfeiffer opens at Thomas Dane Gallery, Oreet Ahery's 'Party for Freedom' begins, Jerwood Gallery shows work by William Scott and Anthony Whishaw RA opens his studio to visitors this weekend

This week: Mariele Neudecker takes over a Brighton townhouse as part of the Brighton Festival, Trade Routes opens at Hauser & Wirth, Richmond Hill Gallery shows works by Frederick Gore RA, Fred Cuming RA is on display at Adam Gallery, an exhibition of works by Robert Morris opens at Sprüth Magers and The Otolith Group talk at The Japan Foundation next week.

This week: 'Dieter Roth: Diaries' opens at Camden Arts Centre, Roche Court display a two-person show of Rothschild and Clare Woods, Karsten Schubert display drawing by William Scott, 'Chris Levine: Light' is on show at the Fine Art Society and an exhibition of the Bay Area School opens at Thomas Williams Fine Art

This week: a new exhibition of kinetic sculptures by Michael Landy RA opens at the National Gallery, Jupiter Artland kicks off their summer season, Chisenhale Gallery shows work by Mariana Castillo Debball, new work by Sinta Tantra is installed in Holland Park and it's the last chance to see 'Becoming Picasso' at the Courtauld Gallery

This week: an exhibition on Tudor and Stuart fashion opens at The Queen's Gallery, Richard Green displays work by the late Mary Fedden RA, Browse and Darby show works by Anthony Eyton RA, Jutta Koether goes on display at Bristol's Arnolfini and a comparison of photographs by Martin Parr and Tom Wood is shown at the Walker Art Gallery.

Eduardo Paolozzi's collages in Chichester, a spotlight on contemporary Brazilian art, Eastern European sound art in Shoreditch and the return of Bold Tendencies to Peckham's multi-storey car park are among this week's art highlights.

This week: Railings Gallery shows work by Donald Hamilton Fraser RA, an exhibition of Bill Jacklin RA opens at Marlborough Fine Art, Royal Academician sculptors Cornelia Parker and Anthony Caro have exhibitions opening at Frith Street and Gagosian Gallery, 'A Crisis of Brilliance' begins at Dulwich Picture Gallery and Pace Gallery shows work by actor and artist James Franco.

This week: 'Alternative Guide to the Universe' opens at the Hayward Gallery, Sculpture in the City begins on 20 June, Pallant House shows 'Modern British Collage', two shows on paper begin at Saatchi Gallery and the ICA and Roger Hiorns' site-specific installation opens at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

This week: 'Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life' opens at Tate Britain, National Gallery presents 'Vermeer and Music', a display of works by Gauguin is now open at the Courtauld, the Fine Art Society shows 'Sickert: From Life' and a new installation by Leandro Erlich opens in Dalston.

Mexican revolutionary art at the RA, visions of utopia at the Whitechapel Gallery, Manchester International Festival and an open submission show at White Cube are among this week's art picks.

This week: The Photographers' Gallery shows new work by BA and MA students, the Jack Bell Gallery displays sculptures by Gonçalo Mabunda, lithographs once displayed in Lyons teashops go on display at Towner, Eastbourne, Newlyn Art Gallery presents oil paintings by Andy Harper and an exhibition of work by Christopher Wood opens at Kettle's Yard

This week: An exhibition of Sarah Morris is on display at White Cube Bermondsey, Aquatopia opens at Nottingham Contemporary, Arnolfini presents work by Ian Hamilton Finlay, works by Hamish Fulton are shown at Maureen Paley and a solo show of Emma Hart begins at Camden Arts Centre

This week: Anthea Hamilton opens at Bloomberg Space, Ikon display works by Japanese artist Shimabuku, Chisenhale Gallery shows Pratchaya Phinthong, 'The Future is Here' opens at the Design Museum and RA Schools student Anthony Faroux is displayed at Cardiff's Bay Art gallery

This week: Thom Phillips RA shows at Flowers Gallery, the Contemporary Art Society shows work by John Stezaker, prints by William Kentridge are on display at University Gallery, an exhibition of Ben Nicholson etchings opens at Bernard Jacobson Gallery and 'The New Situation: Art in London in the Sixties' begins at Sotheby's

The holiday season rarely sees new art exhibitions opening and this year is no different, with a review of RA Magazine’s inbox yielding next to naught in terms of private views in the next fortnight. So this week’s pick of exhibitions is a 'last chance' round-up of some London shows that are worth viewing before they close their doors over the next two weeks.

This week: A survey of recent work by Thomas Scheibitz opens at Baltic, 'Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Man' opens at The Queen's Gallery, Edinburgh, Cass Sculpture Foundation show works by Eduardo Paolozzi RA, and it's your last chance to catch two great shows: 'Cinematic Visions' at Victoria Miro and Merlin James at Parasol Unit

A nationwide project that's bringing art to advertising billboards; exhibitions of Gilberto Zorio and Brian Griffiths; a fundraising campaign by Marina Abramović and a sculpture trail in the grounds of Fulham Palace.

This week: Richard Wilson RA's '1513: A Ship's Opera' forms part of the Thames Festival, the ICA explore London's subcultures at the Old Selfridges Hotel, The collection of Albert Richardson PRA goes on display at Christie's, work by sculptor Geoffrey Clarke RA is shown at Pangolin Gallery and a solo exhibition of RA Schools alumni Alex Hoda opens at Edel Assanti