Xavier Ribas, Bluecoat, Liverpool
This intriguing exhibition of photographic and moving image works charts the history of nitrate extraction in the Chilean Atacama Desert. It features audio and visual documentation of geographically disparate but historically connected landscapes.
Until 5 July 2015, www.thebluecoat.org.uk
Sonia Delauney, Tate Modern, London
A key figure in the Parisian avant-garde and European abstract art, Sonia Delauney celebrated the modern world of movement, technology and urban life. This superb retrospective features the groundbreaking paintings, textiles and clothes she made across her 60-year career.
Until 9 August 2015, www.tate.org.uk
Georgina Starr, mima, Middlesbrough
Engaging with a reimagining of identity, biography and history, Georgina Starr challenges the viewer to re-examine the self, the subconscious and its ever-morphing biographies. Visitors are taken on a journey through vaults and corridors to encounter video, sculpture, performance, writing and sound work.
Until 28 May 2015, www.visitmima.com
Roy Lichtenstein, Modern One (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art), Edinburgh
One of the most influential Pop artists of the 20th century, Roy Lichtenstein created visually striking works that to this day provoke questions about how images permeate our lives. This display brings together a newly assembled group of works across three rooms, shown together for the first time as part of the ARTIST ROOMS series.
Until 10 January 2016, www.nationalgalleries.org
Glossary: How and Why Artists Make Prints, Crescent Arts, Scarborough
This group show brings together the work of seven contemporary printmakers. Exploring a range of printmaking processes and technical approaches, highlights include the works of Julian Meredith and Tom Hammick, whose works respond to momentary events or found objects, reflecting aspects of the complex relationship between ourselves and the natural world.
Until 16 May 2015, www.crescentarts.co.uk
Selections chosen by Jack Hutchinson
