Peace from the Bottom of my Art
25th April - 9th May 2012... 40 of the best Middle Eastern artists explore the theme of peace at the Opera Gallery in London.
25th April - 9th May 2012... 40 of the best Middle Eastern artists explore the theme of peace at the Opera Gallery in London.
Charming Baker heads to LA to wow the art crowds with his next show.
View Reporting from ‘Lie Down I Think I Love You’ – Charming Baker, LA →
Oslo-based stencil artist, Martin Whatson brings his surreal urban world to MSAGallery, Paris.
The Prodigy's Maxim delivers another fantastic show in LA. Put him on your 'ones to watch' list.
Various artists turn the male gaze back on itself, and ask whether social constructs have created an illusion of 'real men' who actually don't exist.
Let the psychoanalysis begin... the iconic works of one of light and neon art's best.
Commentator and creator, David Breuer-Weil's 'Project 4' brings distorted figures and landscapes to London.
Kinetica Art Fair brings Musion, Chris Levine, SquidSoup and even Damien Hirst (in the collector's department) to its annual lair.
The remarkably unique RAE comes to London for his first solo show, with East London projects in tow.
One of Pop Art's finest, Roy Lichtenstein gets the spotlight at the Tate Modern this Spring.
Man Ray may be known as a painter to most, but his photographic portraits include subjects as Picasso and Catherine Deneuve.
Marina Zurkow's work offers some remarkable perspectives about decay, ecosystems and the fine line between life and death.
London Art Fair brings some devilishly good highlights to it's 2013 programme.
View London Art Fair: Matthew Collings, Art Projects and Hannah Barry →
How the past explains the present: Irish artist Gerard Byrne gets a retrospective at the Whitechapel gallery.
Tate Britain explores the master of collage, Kurt Schwitters, a refugee arriving in the UK from Nazi Germany in 1940.
The artist who once made a burning vagina as a homage to Burning Man festival brings his unique brand of art to London.
The photographer explores the theme of the body, inviting us to view them as we would classical statues.
Light art has moved on since the days of James Turrell and Dan Flavin. Scream exhibits some of today's artists exploring the medium of light.
The house of Dior brings the work of 20 female artists to the Grand Palais, as inspired by the iconic perfume.
Freud's notion of what is strange, is 'strangely familiar' is actually explored in 'The Uncanny' at Ronchini Gallery.
View ‘The Uncanny’ – Adeline de Monseignat and Berndnaut Smilde →
6th - 9th Dec 2012... PULSE art fair is back in its eighth year with a few key artists involved to seduce audiences, including Invader.
Public art is given a new playground as a London launderette is turned into an art gallery.
One of rock n roll's key photographers of the 60s and 70s gets a full retrospective at Chelsea's Vinyl Factory.
View ‘Drag Queens, Rent Boys, Pick Pockets, Junkies, Rockstars and Punks’ – Leee Black Childers →
WIRED's first UK offline pop-up shop arrives in London's West End... the world is your digital oyster.
Of all the icons influencing music, fashion, make-up and even film, it's David Bowie that definitely deserves a V&A retrospective.
21st Nov 2012 - 25th Mar 2013... The master of wild and crazy - and of course, surrealism - gets a full-blown retrospective at the Pompidou Centre.
Jackson Pollock, David Hockney and other experimental artists feature in a Tate show that looks at painting's story after performance art bled in to the mainstream art world.
View Reviewed: ‘A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance’ – Tate Modern →
World toilet day in the UK this year is plopping itself right on Boris Johnson's front lawn.
21st Nov - 15th Jan 2012... Neon's biggest player takes Soho by storm in a temporary pop-up shop that doubles up as a giant archive.
30th Nov - 5th Jan 2013... New work by Vhils will be shown at this solo exhibition at Lazarides Rathbone Place.
9th – 27th Nov 2012... The Eagles' 'Hotel Kalifornia' forms the title of this soul-bearing installation and film exhibition by Heidi Locher.
20th Nov - 19th Jan 2013... A new body of work by contemporary artist, Zeng Fanzhi comes to the Gagosian.
1st Nov - 1st Dec 2012... Aboriginal artist and Australian rising art star Michael Cook, brings his next narrative to October Gallery.
Urban art collectors are going to flock to this one, as Lazarides brings the work of Banksy, JR, Know Hope, Antony Micallef and more all under one roof.
19th - 22nd Nov 2012... Re-new brings digital culture,music and art to Copenhagen for it's annual festival.
33 of urban art's best including ROA, Blek le rat, Nick Walker and Shepard Fairey join forces for Opera Gallery's 'Urban Masters.'
27th - 30th Nov 2012... Festival of Transitory Art, SONICA is back on its fourth year, offering more by way of interactive technologies and digital art.
Richard Hamilton works grace the National Gallery walls... includes never-seen-before works.
Dedicating his life to art, Rich Simmons brings his next body of work to Imitate Modern.
The innovators behind Secret Cinema turn to art - no longer about viewing art, it's all about experiencing it.
The work of painter, Bruce French comes to Scream in London.
Shepard Fairey's long awaited 'Sound and Vision' show comes to Stolen Space gallery, London.
14th Sept - 11th Nov 2012... Bharti Kher's solo show addresses the self amidst global issues and politics in India.
6th Oct 2012... A live performance from Anti VJ, The Field and Byetone ought to satisfy any cravings you have for live audiovisual performances. Alphaville's the key.
Why art by offenders, detainees and secure patients in a show curated by Sarah Lucas, is something to shout about.
The third and final show where Lazarides & co take over the Old Vic Tunnels. Has the world gone mad?
View Primrose Hill? Nope, Lazarides’ ‘Bedlam’ at the Old Vic Tunnels →
6th Sept - 13th Oct 2012... Digital media show requests audience participation at the forward-thinking bitforms gallery in New York.
Beautiful Crime picks out its top 5 events at this year's London Design Festival
6th -13th Sept 2012... Graffitimundo offer UK audiences a rare insight in to the differing South American and Argentinian styles and approach to street and urban art.
View Catch Graffitimundo at Londonewcastle Project Space, London →
5th Sept - 13th Jan 2013... What will become of all things tanglible as the future of the digital age unfolds?
The graf veteran returns with candy colours and bright images at High Roller Society.
27th Sept - 28th Oct 2012... Slinkachu brings his miniature world and all its miniature narratives to Andipa gallery in London and New York.
Fashion meets art with old school photography techniques used by Paulina Surys. Perfect timing for LFW.
4th Sept - 1st Sept 2013... The Bloomberg Commission offers the bronze and gold leaf tree of Giuseppe Penone at The Whitechapel Gallery.
Blending the real with the virtual via paintings and video projections, Newman asks you to question what's real and what's not.
The Dreamy Awards brings an interesting take on awards ceremonies in our celeb-obsessed culture.
20th Sept 2012... One of the graffiti and street art scene's biggest festivals comes to Norway this Autumn.
Tate brings all that is underground in audio, visual, digital and performance art to shining new venue, The Tanks. Artist, Leo Asemota pictured above.
Cinimod Studios create an interactive LED lighting installation that responds to your movement for London Design Festival at V&A.
View ‘Walk the Light’ (whilst listening to ‘Walk the Line’?) →
21st + 23rd August - 3rd September 2012... Gustav Klimt works are celebrated by a handful of street artists
Running until 9th Dec 2012... Installation art was once banned in China: this show at the Hayward, Southbank celebrates Chinese installation art's uprising.
View ‘Art of Change: New Directions in China’ Hayward Gallery →
Urban Ibiza is back in it's fourth year, once again with a huge variety of urban and street art talent.
Crane tv and Moniker Projects bring the premiere of Steve ESPO Powers' A Love Letter For You' plus other art films to London as part of adidas' underground series of events
Raymond Harmon delivers a treat by way of a warehouse installation.
View Reviewed: ‘Gnosis’ by Raymond Harmon – top notch autonomous graffiti →
31 August - 2nd September 2012... Take off with artist, Martin Parr for a short break in Folkestone.
19th July 2012... Evisu get creative with a mural and live art project at Boxpark, Shoreditch.
Tate Modern updates itself with the opening of The Tanks, a new space specially created for performance art and live interactive installations.
20th July - 25th August 2012... Logan Hicks painstakingly stencilled landscapes are pinned to the walls of The Outsiders for his solo show.
Paul Smith SPACE gallery in Tokyo brings Masayoshi Sukita's iconic photographs of David Bowie to its walls.
Pioneering video and moving image artist, Bill Viola explores the theme of water in his latest show.
13th July – 23rd September 2012... Curators Coates and Scarry bring you ideas of nature's most unnatural including works by David La Chapelle, ROA, Kate McGwire and Angela Singer.
'The Mr Brainwash Summer Show' arrives at the Opera Gallery this month, which includes new sculptures.
29th June – 15th July 2012... Rone brings his trademark female muses back home for a show in Australia.
A summer-long arts festival featuring urban artists such as Nick Walker and Vhils, and interactive artists such as Anti VJ.
View See No Evil festival, Bristol. Vhils, Nick Walker, Anti-VJ + more. →
30th June - 18th July 2012... Some of the US' biggest street art names come to London for an unmissable show.
View ‘Letters From America’ Shepard Fairey, Saber, Ron English, TrustoCorp, RISK →
29th June - 28th August 2012... Japanese artist, Jacob Hashimoto's paper kites flood his latest show in London.
10th October - 10th November 2012.... Anish Kapoor's next show will take over the Lisson Gallery.
11th July – 25th August 2012... Julian Opie's next show comes to the Lisson Gallery, including works on graphite, stone and even LCD screens.
31st May - 10th June 2012... Herakut come back to London with new works and a book signing.
25th May – 21st July 2012... Haroon Mirza brings audiovisual installations and compositions to Berlin.
Friday 1st June 2012... The anti-art fair art fair isn't saying much yet.
Art's epic car boot sale for is back yet again, with Tracey Emin, Polly Morgan, Sir Peter Blake and more selling one-off pieces.
10th - 13th May 2012... The Other Art Fair is the only art fair in London that ensures all exhibiting artists get 100% of the profits.
We dig deep in to the www and find art's best portraits of the Queen, including a selection from the upcoming 'The Queen: Art and Image.'
View Queen-tessentially British: an ode to ‘The Queen: Art and Image’ →
3rd Oct - Dec 2012... Read about the artists who will be testing the limits of art yet again.
25th April - 22nd July 2012... Some of the best photography exhibited at te Saatchi Gallery, both in au natural and digitally enhanced forms.
10th – 20th May 2012... Described as "Visual Audio and Deviant technologies.' Some of the best mapping artists and VJs convene for this annual festival in Geneva.
27th April – 26th May 2012... The Static duo are set to provide a mash-up of experimentally-driven urban and fine art in their next show.
4th April – 4th May 2012... Illustrators convene for this Pop-Up feast of drawing and illustration for five weeks in Bristol.
27th April - 10th May 2012... Click through for NEW WORKS! Blek le rat comes to London for a long awaited solo show. And you can win a free print.
3rd April - 10th June 2012... The digital switchover has inspired the ICA to get a bunch of artists thinking about TV's place in modern culture.
Oct 2012 - Jan 2013... A show featuring artwork centered around 'the four pillars of rock,' - Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin.
28th April - 20th August 2012.... Antony Gormley brings 'Vessel,' a12-piece sculpture to Galleria Continua.
19th April – 26th May 2012... Ron Mueck - chickens, naked ladies carrying sticks and youths with blood on their t-shirts feature in his next major show.
20th April - 10th May 2012... ROA's solo show and book launch at Stolen Space gallery.
19th April - 10th May 2012... The instantly recognised works of Stik in his next show include light boxes and sculptures.
11th April - 11th May 2012... Cedar Lewisohn, Sweetoof and Jasper Joffe exhibit works in this group show at Eb and Flow gallery.
4th - 25th May 2012... Ten shortlisted artists present new works as they compete for the prestigious Catlin Art Prize 2012.
29th March - 7th July 2012... Female artists at the helm of Urban Art and Pop Surrealism exhibit their works at The Warrington Museum, London.
3rd May 2012... The King of neon explores hedonism and desire in his next shows at Guy Hepner, in Miami and LA.