NOW SHOWING #76: Top exhibitions this Christmas
For the final Now Showing selection of 2014, Jack Hutchinson selects shows in Derby, Nottingham, London, Liverpool and Glasgow.
For the final Now Showing selection of 2014, Jack Hutchinson selects shows in Derby, Nottingham, London, Liverpool and Glasgow.
This week’s selection of must-see UK shows stretches from Nestor Armando Gil in Exeter to Alasdair Gray in Glasgow, with detours to London and the North East along the way.
This week’s selection includes exhibitions marking the 40th anniversary of Aberdeen’s Peacock Visual Arts and 30 years of Manchester’s Cornerhouse, while elsewhere there’s Howard Hodgkin’s India-inspired gouaches in London, Graeme Durant’s playful constructions in Gateshead, and a group show at Chatham’s new art space, Sun Pier House.
This week’s selection includes a show in Llandudno that links the act of breathing with the gesture of drawing a line, works dealing with authorship and identity in Salisbury, and a theatrical exploration of an imagined relationship between Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth in Sheffield.
This week’s must-see shows include a billboard in Sheffield, a new graduate group show in London and a sculptural event at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds.
This week’s selection of must-see shows includes Allen Jones at the Royal Academy, first world war artist CRW Nevinson in Birmingham, and the last chance to catch An-My Lê in Milton Keynes.
With Stan Douglas in Edinburgh, Andy Warhol in Liverpool and William Hogarth in London, this week’s selection spans 300 years of art making and includes painting, sculpture, film, drawing, print and more.
This week’s selection of must-see shows takes us on a trip to Manchester, Leeds, Hastings and a forest in Surrey.
This week’s selections range from young Polish artist Agnieszka Polska’s video explorations of forgotten histories at Nottingham Contemporary, to a major exhibition of the work of groundbreaking Austrian painter Egon Schiele at The Courtauld Institute.
This week’s must-see shows range from Tate Modern’s major Sigmar Polke retrospective to a combination of sonic and visual art at BALTIC, Gateshead.
This week’s selection ranges from a bumper Constable show at the V&A to surreal art ‘operas’ in Nottingham.
This week’s must-see shows include major exhibitions in London by Ai Weiwei and Anselm Kiefer, and a retrospective of the work of British performance artist Stuart Brisley in Oxford.
This week’s must-see shows range from an emotive Susan Philipsz sound installation in Birmingham to the ‘Wp Wp Wp’ of Chinook helicopters in Yorkshire.
From a Tory MP being devoured by birds of prey to an exploration of modern methods of communication and human intimacy, this week’s tour of recommended exhibitions includes shows in Glasgow, Sunderland, Nottingham and more.
This week’s selections range from Tate Britain’s major J.M.W. Turner exhibition looking at his work between 1835 and 1851, to a debut solo show in an artist-led space in Norwich.
This week’s must-see shows range from White Albums in Liverpool to a celebration of the tiny things in life in Southampton.
From artist-led adventures in Leicester to an exploration of a 19th century German educationalist in Bristol, we pick five must-see exhibitions from across the UK.
This week’s must-see shows include Frank Auerbach’s drawings and paintings at Tate Britain, Simon and Tom Bloor’s exploration of the post-war architecture of play at Sheffield’s Site Gallery – and a spot of artist-run golf in Croydon.
This week’s selection of must-see shows includes a ‘breathing’ bulb in London, an evolving artist-led group show in Sheffield, and the auto-creative work of Gustav Metzger in Cambridge.
Conflict, industry and landscape are on the agenda this week as we recommend shows in London, Leeds, Manchester, Brighton and Edinburgh.
Memory, permanence and motorcycle counterculture are on the agenda this week as we take in Phil Root’s ‘erasure’ works in Exeter, Richard Bernstein’s magazine cover art in London and Charlie Woolley’s continuing exploration of the avatar in Plymouth.
This week’s selections include a ‘topical’ collection of new works by Gilbert and George in London, pioneering abstract paintings by the British post-war artist Sandra Blow in Penzance, and a series of ‘exuberant’ installations by Phyllida Barlow – made in response to the unique surroundings of Hauser and Wirth’s gallery space in Somerset.
This week’s must-see shows include a group exhibition exploring urban anxiety in Manchester, a retrospective of German émigré Gego in Leeds, and a fresh look at the work of Shelagh Wakely in Camden.
This week’s selection takes in two career spanning survey shows – Giulio Paolini in London and Bruce McClean in Colchester – plus there are ‘earthy’ new works by William Cobbing in Middlesbrough, and a new film installation questioning the concept of freedom by Grace Schwindt in Birmingham.
This week’s selection of must-see shows ranges from a stand-out Glasgow show of new work as part of Generation in Scotland, to something spooky going on in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire.