Transience, Serpentine Gallery, London
Bringing together over 30 years worth of work, this solo show by Michael Craig-Martin features his era-defining representations of once familiar yet obsolete technology. Laptops, games consoles, black and white televisions and incandescent lightbulbs mark the increasing transience of technological innovation.
Until 14 February 2016, serpentinegalleries.org
Alien Encounters, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
For its intriguing autumn programme, Nottingham Contemporary presents four separate solo shows, all linked by their exploration of fiction and alternative realities as ways of transforming and extending our understanding of identity, social norms and world history. Featuring performance, theatre and film, the artists: Sun Ra, Rana Hamadeh, collaborators Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, plus Danai Anesiadou.
Until 31 December 2015, nottinghamcontemporary.org
Anne Hardy, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
London-based artist Anne Hardy transforms the gallery space into a series of environments that include roughly-built structures, objects, colour fields of carpet and audio. Using found objects as her stating point, the show also features a room of photograms created using the dust and debris swept from her studio floor at the end of each working day, making images directly on photographic paper.
Until 10 January 2016, modernartoxford.org.uk
Works to Know By Heart: An Imagined Museum, Tate Liverpool
Featuring over 60 post-1945 artworks from the collections of Tate, Centre Pompidou and Frankfurt’s MMK, this show encourages audiences to commit the art to memory, evoking Ray Bradbury’s 1953 sci-fi novel Fahrenheit 451 – a tale of a future in which works of literature are banned and the only way to save them is to learn them by heart. Featured artists include Marcel Duchamp, Claes Oldenburg, Bridget Riley, Dorothea Tanning, Andy Warhol and Rachel Whiteread. In a final weekend (20-21 February 2016), the art will be removed to be replaced by gallery visitors presenting their memories of the works.
Until 14 February 2016, tate.org.uk
Ceri Richards, New Art Centre, Salisbury
The paintings of Welsh artist Ceri Richards (1902-1971) often feature themes and motifs from landscape, the cycle of nature, Celtic imagery, poetry and, most notably, from music. This exhibition focuses on his later work, with the resulting swathes of colour making it easy to understand why Richards was chosen to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1962.
Until 31 January 2016, sculpture.uk.com
