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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.

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Reporting from ‘Lie Down I Think I Love You’ – Charming Baker, LA

Charming Baker heads to LA to wow the art crowds with his next show.

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‘The Beauty of Grey’ – Martin Whatson, Paris

Oslo-based stencil artist, Martin Whatson brings his surreal urban world to MSAGallery, Paris.

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‘The Cure’ – MM

The Prodigy's Maxim delivers another fantastic show in LA. Put him on your 'ones to watch' list.

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Is there such a thing as a real man?

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.

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Renowned light artist to woo crowds with ‘Mindf*ck’

Let the psychoanalysis begin... the iconic works of one of light and neon art's best.

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‘Project 4’ by David Breuer-Weil

Commentator and creator, David Breuer-Weil's 'Project 4' brings distorted figures and landscapes to London.

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Kinetica Art Fair: the future of art

Kinetica Art Fair brings Musion, Chris Levine, SquidSoup and even Damien Hirst (in the collector's department) to its annual lair.

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Spotlight: RAE and ‘Nocturnal Trips’

The remarkably unique RAE comes to London for his first solo show, with East London projects in tow.

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Lichtenstein: A Retrospective

One of Pop Art's finest, Roy Lichtenstein gets the spotlight at the Tate Modern this Spring.

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Man Ray – painter? No, photographer

Man Ray may be known as a painter to most, but his photographic portraits include subjects as Picasso and Catherine Deneuve.

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Spotlight: Marina Zurkow

Marina Zurkow's work offers some remarkable perspectives about decay, ecosystems and the fine line between life and death.

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London Art Fair: Matthew Collings, Art Projects and Hannah Barry

London Art Fair brings some devilishly good highlights to it's 2013 programme.

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‘A State of Neutral Pleasure
’ – Gerard Byrne

How the past explains the present: Irish artist Gerard Byrne gets a retrospective at the Whitechapel gallery.

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’ – Gerard Byrne

Schwitters in Britain

Tate Britain explores the master of collage, Kurt Schwitters, a refugee arriving in the UK from Nazi Germany in 1940.

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‘Intertwangleism’- Butch Anthony

The artist who once made a burning vagina as a homage to Burning Man festival brings his unique brand of art to London.

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‘Bodies. 6 Women, 1 Man’ – Nadav Kander

The photographer explores the theme of the body, inviting us to view them as we would classical statues.

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Today’s top light artists exhibit at Scream

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.

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Miss Dior et Les Artistes, Paris

The house of Dior brings the work of 20 female artists to the Grand Palais, as inspired by the iconic perfume.

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‘The Uncanny’ – Adeline de Monseignat and Berndnaut Smilde

Freud's notion of what is strange, is 'strangely familiar' is actually explored in 'The Uncanny' at Ronchini Gallery.

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PULSE Art Fair Miami & Art | Basel Miami Beach

6th - 9th Dec 2012... PULSE art fair is back in its eighth year with a few key artists involved to seduce audiences, including Invader.

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Launderette becomes an art gallery

Public art is given a new playground as a London launderette is turned into an art gallery.

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‘Drag Queens, Rent Boys, Pick Pockets, Junkies, Rockstars and Punks’ – Leee Black Childers

One of rock n roll's key photographers of the 60s and 70s gets a full retrospective at Chelsea's Vinyl Factory.

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Get digital artworks at WIRED mag’s pop up

WIRED's first UK offline pop-up shop arrives in London's West End... the world is your digital oyster.

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‘David Bowie is’ at V&A

Of all the icons influencing music, fashion, make-up and even film, it's David Bowie that definitely deserves a V&A retrospective.

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Dalí – Pompidou Centre, Paris

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.

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Reviewed: ‘A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance’ – Tate Modern

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.

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Giant toilet (and your face) on Boris Johnson’s turf

World toilet day in the UK this year is plopping itself right on Boris Johnson's front lawn.

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‘Circus of Soho’ – Chris Bracey

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.

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‘Devoid’ – Vhils

30th Nov - 5th Jan 2013... New work by Vhils will be shown at this solo exhibition at Lazarides Rathbone Place.

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‘Hotel Kalifornia’ by Heidi Locher

9th – 27th Nov 2012... The Eagles' 'Hotel Kalifornia' forms the title of this soul-bearing installation and film exhibition by Heidi Locher.

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Zeng Fanzhi at Gagosian

20th Nov - 19th Jan 2013... A new body of work by contemporary artist, Zeng Fanzhi comes to the Gagosian.

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‘Broken Dreams’ by Michael Cook

1st Nov - 1st Dec 2012... Aboriginal artist and Australian rising art star Michael Cook, brings his next narrative to October Gallery.

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‘Lazarides Presents…’

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.

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Re-new digital arts festival, Copenhagen

19th - 22nd Nov 2012... Re-new brings digital culture,music and art to Copenhagen for it's annual festival.

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Frieze Masters? Try ‘Urban Masters’

33 of urban art's best including ROA, Blek le rat, Nick Walker and Shepard Fairey join forces for Opera Gallery's 'Urban Masters.'

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SONICA, Festival of Transitory Art, Slovenia

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.

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‘Richard Hamilton: The Late Works’

Richard Hamilton works grace the National Gallery walls... includes never-seen-before works.

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‘Just Be You Tiful’ – Rich Simmons

Dedicating his life to art, Rich Simmons brings his next body of work to Imitate Modern.

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Secret Cinema bring us Secret Gallery

The innovators behind Secret Cinema turn to art - no longer about viewing art, it's all about experiencing it.

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‘Still Life’ by Bruce French

The work of painter, Bruce French comes to Scream in London.

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Shepard Fairey’s first solo show in five years

Shepard Fairey's long awaited 'Sound and Vision' show comes to Stolen Space gallery, London.

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Bharti Kher

14th Sept - 11th Nov 2012... Bharti Kher's solo show addresses the self amidst global issues and politics in India.

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Anti-VJ, The Field and ByeTone at Alpha-ville LIVE

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.

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Southbank brings Outsider art back to its roots

Why art by offenders, detainees and secure patients in a show curated by Sarah Lucas, is something to shout about.

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Primrose Hill? Nope, Lazarides’ ‘Bedlam’ at the Old Vic Tunnels

The third and final show where Lazarides & co take over the Old Vic Tunnels. Has the world gone mad?

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‘Voice Array’ by Lozano-Hemmer, New York

6th Sept - 13th Oct 2012... Digital media show requests audience participation at the forward-thinking bitforms gallery in New York.

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London Design Festival – our top 5 must-see events

Beautiful Crime picks out its top 5 events at this year's London Design Festival

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Catch Graffitimundo at Londonewcastle Project Space, London

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.

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‘Digital Crystal: Swarovski at the Design Museum’

5th Sept - 13th Jan 2013... What will become of all things tanglible as the future of the digital age unfolds?

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‘Poptimism’ – Vinnie Nylon returns!

The graf veteran returns with candy colours and bright images at High Roller Society.

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‘Global Model Village’ Slinkachu, London & New York

27th Sept - 28th Oct 2012... Slinkachu brings his miniature world and all its miniature narratives to Andipa gallery in London and New York.

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‘In Absentia Lucis’ Paulina Surys

Fashion meets art with old school photography techniques used by Paulina Surys. Perfect timing for LFW.

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The Bloomberg Commission: Giuseppe Penone

4th Sept - 1st Sept 2013... The Bloomberg Commission offers the bronze and gold leaf tree of Giuseppe Penone at The Whitechapel Gallery.

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Rupert Newman

Blending the real with the virtual via paintings and video projections, Newman asks you to question what's real and what's not.

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‘The Dreamy Awards’ by Ed Fornieles

The Dreamy Awards brings an interesting take on awards ceremonies in our celeb-obsessed culture.

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Nuart Festival 2012, Norway

20th Sept 2012... One of the graffiti and street art scene's biggest festivals comes to Norway this Autumn.

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Undercurrent festival @ The Tanks

Tate brings all that is underground in audio, visual, digital and performance art to shining new venue, The Tanks. Artist, Leo Asemota pictured above.

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‘Walk the Light’ (whilst listening to ‘Walk the Line’?)

Cinimod Studios create an interactive LED lighting installation that responds to your movement for London Design Festival at V&A.

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Gustav Klimt’s 150th birthday – Lazarides events

21st + 23rd August - 3rd September 2012... Gustav Klimt works are celebrated by a handful of street artists

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‘Art of Change: New Directions in China’ Hayward Gallery

Running until 9th Dec 2012... Installation art was once banned in China: this show at the Hayward, Southbank celebrates Chinese installation art's uprising.

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Urban In Ibiza 4

Urban Ibiza is back in it's fourth year, once again with a huge variety of urban and street art talent.

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‘A Love Letter For You’ film screening

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

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Reviewed: ‘Gnosis’ by Raymond Harmon – top notch autonomous graffiti

Raymond Harmon delivers a treat by way of a warehouse installation.

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Holiday with Martin Parr anyone?

31 August - 2nd September 2012... Take off with artist, Martin Parr for a short break in Folkestone.

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Evisu’s Denimpics at Boxpark

19th July 2012... Evisu get creative with a mural and live art project at Boxpark, Shoreditch.

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Tanked up: the Tate launches new space for live art

Tate Modern updates itself with the opening of The Tanks, a new space specially created for performance art and live interactive installations.

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‘Structural Integrity’ Logan Hicks at The Outsiders

20th July - 25th August 2012... Logan Hicks painstakingly stencilled landscapes are pinned to the walls of The Outsiders for his solo show.

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‘Bowie x Sukita Speed of Life’ at Paul Smith, Tokyo

Paul Smith SPACE gallery in Tokyo brings Masayoshi Sukita's iconic photographs of David Bowie to its walls.

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‘Water’ Bill Viola, Sweden

Pioneering video and moving image artist, Bill Viola explores the theme of water in his latest show.

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‘Unnatural – Natural History’ various artists

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.

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The Mr Brainwash Summer Show

'The Mr Brainwash Summer Show' arrives at the Opera Gallery this month, which includes new sculptures.

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‘Fall From Grace’ Rone, Australia

29th June – 15th July 2012... Rone brings his trademark female muses back home for a show in Australia.

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See No Evil festival, Bristol. Vhils, Nick Walker, Anti-VJ + more.

A summer-long arts festival featuring urban artists such as Nick Walker and Vhils, and interactive artists such as Anti VJ.

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‘Letters From America’ Shepard Fairey, Saber, Ron English, TrustoCorp, RISK

30th June - 18th July 2012... Some of the US' biggest street art names come to London for an unmissable show.

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‘The Other Sun’ Jacob Hashimoto

29th June - 28th August 2012... Japanese artist, Jacob Hashimoto's paper kites flood his latest show in London.

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Anish Kapoor

10th October - 10th November 2012.... Anish Kapoor's next show will take over the Lisson Gallery.

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Julian Opie

11th July – 25th August 2012... Julian Opie's next show comes to the Lisson Gallery, including works on graphite, stone and even LCD screens.

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‘After the Laughter,’ Herakut

31st May - 10th June 2012... Herakut come back to London with new works and a book signing.

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‘–{}{}{} {}–{}{}{}{}–{}’ Haroon Mirza, Berlin

25th May – 21st July 2012... Haroon Mirza brings audiovisual installations and compositions to Berlin.

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Seize Art Fare

Friday 1st June 2012... The anti-art fair art fair isn't saying much yet.

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Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair

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.

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The Other Art Fair 2012

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.

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Queen-tessentially British: an ode to ‘The Queen: Art and Image’

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.'

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The Turner Prize 2012

3rd Oct - Dec 2012... Read about the artists who will be testing the limits of art yet again.

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Out of Focus: Photography

25th April - 22nd July 2012... Some of the best photography exhibited at te Saatchi Gallery, both in au natural and digitally enhanced forms.

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Mapping Festival 2012, Geneva

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.

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‘Moments of Clarity’ – Static

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.

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‘Pop-Up Nation’ – various artists, Bristol

4th April – 4th May 2012... Illustrators convene for this Pop-Up feast of drawing and illustration for five weeks in Bristol.

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Blek le rat solo show (and print giveaway)

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.

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‘Remote Control’ – various artists

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.

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‘The Four Pillars of Rock’ – various artists

Oct 2012 - Jan 2013... A show featuring artwork centered around 'the four pillars of rock,' - Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin.

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‘Vessel’ – Antony Gormley, Italy

28th April - 20th August 2012.... Antony Gormley brings 'Vessel,' a12-piece sculpture to Galleria Continua.

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Ron Mueck

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.

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‘Hypnagogia’ – ROA

20th April - 10th May 2012... ROA's solo show and book launch at Stolen Space gallery.

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‘Walk’ – Stik

19th April - 10th May 2012... The instantly recognised works of Stik in his next show include light boxes and sculptures.

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‘She Doesn’t Care’ – various artists

11th April - 11th May 2012... Cedar Lewisohn, Sweetoof and Jasper Joffe exhibit works in this group show at Eb and Flow gallery.

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Catlin Art Prize 2012

4th - 25th May 2012... Ten shortlisted artists present new works as they compete for the prestigious Catlin Art Prize 2012.

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‘International Women’ – various artists

29th March - 7th July 2012... Female artists at the helm of Urban Art and Pop Surrealism exhibit their works at The Warrington Museum, London.

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‘Stages of Love’ – Chris Bracey, Miami and LA

3rd May 2012... The King of neon explores hedonism and desire in his next shows at Guy Hepner, in Miami and LA.

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