selina said: Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916): The Poetry of Silence (RA 28 Jun—7 Sep 2008) screams of quality. This first UK retrospective of his work features over 60+ paintings (from Europe, the United States and Japan). His interiors, often punctuated with a solitary figure, are articulate, precise and introspective. Portraits, landscapes and evocative city views add to this visual feast.

selina said: Six international street artists (Sixeart, Os Gemeos, Faile, Nunca and Blu) have created work for the exterior the Tate Modern (the facade overlooking the Thames). Other artists are creating work for surrounding environment (23 May-25 August 2008).

selina said: Now in its 240th year, The Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition (9 Jun—17 Aug 2008) includes around 1,200 works (many of which are for sale). With the theme ‘Man-made’ this years show is coordinated by Ocean, Cragg and Benson, this years theme is man-made (including a memorial gallery to RB Kitaj).

creedable said: A tech art installation that travels the UK will be set up in Liverpool on 3rd May and will be accessible till 5th May.The installation is a large dome, surrounded with cameras, taking panoramic pictures of what's around the dome every minute. All the pictures get stored and can be accessed at any time either through the Internet, or from inside the dome, where they can be viewed on screens. The peculiar thing is how the screens show the photographs - they react on the viewer. The closer the viewer moves to the screen, the farther the capture memory recedes.Basically, you see what was on the other side of the screen, a few hours/days ago, depending on how close to the screen you stand.Here's a youtube vid that first caught my interest: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4WZdLGDtbA"]click{/url]

lolly_pop said: An exhibition of work by Tristram Hillier (1905-1983) can be seen at the RA (14/3-25/6: Admission free). Born in Beijing, he moved to France in the late 1920s. Friendly with Braque, Ernst and Masson, Hillier also had links with the English Surrealists (via Paul Nash’s Unit One Group). Early Italian and Flemish masters were to also influence his output.

selina said: The Hotelier André Balazs, in partnership with the Design Museum and Tate Modern, brings to Britain a house designed by the architect Jean Prouvé (1901-84). This prototype, erected outside Tate Modern, is part of the Design Museum’s exhibition ‘Jean Prouvé – The Poetics of the Technical Object’ (05/02-13/04). Found in Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo) in 2000, this ‘flat pack’ house was dismantled, returned to France, and restored. All its component parts were designed to be lightweight and neatly fitted into a cargo plane for shipment. Intended for mass production, it was no cheaper than the local product and their industrial aesthetic did not appeal. This house exists both as a celebration of modernism and as a defunct bygone of the colonial era.

selina said: Extended Landscape (Tate St Ives, 26/01–11/05/08) is the first solo show at Tate St Ives of Cornish-born painter Margo Maeckelberghe (b 1932). Her expressive seascapes and landscapes identify her as a native painter, having owned a cottage and studio in Zennor since the 1960's. Maeckelberghe's paintings are a social and geological history of her native landscape in visual form.