Marguerite Humeau FOXP2 and Oobong Mkango The Encounter that Took a Part of Me at Nottingham Contemporary

The Radical Eye, Robert Reuchenburg and Val Freddo at The Tate Modern

Nature Living at The Welcome Trust

Ensor at RA and South African Art at BM

Mysteries in a box Vestry House

Paul Nash and The Turner Prize at The Tate Britain

Tapestry and Rock and Revolution at The V&A

William Kentridge at The Whitechapel Gallery

Sun Ra Arkestra at Cafe OTO

A World to Win. Posters of Protest and Revolution at The William Morris Gallery

Bjork digital at Somerset House

Bedlum at The Welcome Trust

Forward Poetry Prize at The Royal Festival Hall

https://soundcloud.com/forward-prizes-for-poetry/melissa-lee-houghton-i-am-very-precious-fpp-2016

http://www.forwardartsfoundation.org/poetry/upstairs/

Hilma Af Klimt at The Serpentine and Das Institut at The Sackler

http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/sites/default/files/press-releases/hak_press_pack_final.pdf

http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/das-institut

The Thames Estuary Festival 2016

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/aug/04/walk-thames-estuary-southend-sheppey

Karen Albrecht
http://www.estuaryfestival.com/event/detail/katrinalbrecht.html

Webb-Ellis
http://www.crescentarts.co.uk/project/webb-ellis/


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Clare Twombey William Morris Gallery

http://www.claretwomey.com/

Pictorem Gallery E17

Alan Smith Curates

Ragnar Kjartans at The Barbican

http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=18747

Ancient Greece Episode at The Tate Liverpool

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/liverpool-biennial-2016

http://www.tate.org.uk/search?q=louise%20bourgeois&type=_all&page=1

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Ancient Greece Episode at The Tate Liverpool

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/liverpool-biennial-2016

http://www.tate.org.uk/search?q=louise%20bourgeois&type=_all&page=1

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Nottingham Contemporary Michael Beutler and Yelena Popova

http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/art/michael-beutler

http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/art/yelena-popova

Alex Katz at The Serpentine and Etel Adnan at The Sackler Gallery

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Archaeological Museum of Epidaurus

Georgia O'Keefe and Mona Hatoum at The Tate Modern

Sir John Soames, Georgina Houghton at The Courtauld Gallery, George Shaw and Dutch Flowers at The National Gallery

Georgiana Houghton (1814-1884) was a Spiritualist medium who, in the 1860s and 70s, produced an astonishing series of abstract watercolours. Detailed explanations on the back of the works declare that her hand was guided by various spirits, including several Renaissance artists, as well as higher angelic beings. In this exhibition The Courtauld Galley explores this astounding series of largely abstract Victorian watercolours and offers visitors a unique opportunity to view remarkable works which have not been shown in the UK for nearly 150 years.
Houghton was a prominent figure of the early spiritualist movement in Victorian England, which played a significant role in various spheres of nineteenth-century culture and was later championed by such influential figures as Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Spiritualism emerged as the belief that contact with a spirit realm was possible and that such communication could bring one closer to God. Houghton, a trained artist as well as a medium, pioneered the use of drawing as a method of channelling and expressing communications with spirit entities. During the 1860s and 1870s, she produced a series of unprecedented abstract watercolours as part of her practice as a spirit medium. Houghton called these works ‘spirit drawings’.
Houghton’s spirit drawings are remarkably complex and layered watercolours. Technically highly accomplished, their bold colours and fluid forms have a mesmerising and deeply absorbing effect. Detailed inscriptions on the back of the works declare that her hand was guided by various spirits, including family members, several Renaissance artists, such as Titian and Correggio and higher angelic beings. These inscriptions, which are a form of automatic writing, also make clear that Houghton’s richly patterned compositions are intended to be faithful visualisations of aspects of the spirit realm and designed to inspire and strengthen the spiritual life of their viewers. Although produced in a very different context, Houghton’s abstract works have close connections to the ways in which twentieth- century artists developed abstract languages of art to transcend the everyday realm of representation and consciousness.
In 1871 Houghton rented a prestigious gallery space in Bond Street and presented 155 of her spirit drawings to a perplexed London audience. The Critic from The Era newspaper pronounced it to be “The most astonishing exhibition in London at the present moment.” The Daily News likened the works to “tangled threads of coloured wool” and concluded that “They deserve to be seen as the most extraordinary and instructive example of artistic aberration.” The exhibition proved to be a commercial failure and nearly bankrupted Houghton. Although she continued to make spirit drawings after the exhibition, her ambition of popularising the practice was not realised. Today, less than fifty of her works are known.

The Foundling Museum

use photos of 'found' exhibition
then to Thenga for indian lunch

Whistable Biennale

Giorgione at The Royal Academy

Delacroix at The National Gallery

Performing for The Camera and Rebbeca Horn at The Tate Modern

Guest speaker Hayden Chisholm

Chicks on Speed at Cafe Oto

Hilma Af Klint at The Serpentine, Das Institue at The Sackler and renaissance Drawing at Leighton House

The Voice at The Welcome Collection

Franciszka & Stefan Themerson - Books, Camera, Ubu at The Camden Arts Centre

and concrete poetry by...

Simon Starling at Backlit and Nottingham Contemporary

Bonnie Prince Billie at Cafe Oto

Anolisa at Walthamstow Empire

V&A permanent collection

Couthaul Gallery

http://www.artres.com/C.aspx?VP3=ViewBox&VBID=2UN365NT4ZM75&VBIDL=&SMLS=1&RW=1663&RH=917&PN=2&IT=ThumbImageTemplate03_VForm&CT=Search&SH=1&SF=1&PPM=0&CTID=KRHEC0AOQE3R

http://www.florenceinferno.com/dante-paradise/

Grants Zoological Museum

Concrete Poetry: Poor Old Tired Horse

https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/seasons/poor-old-tired-horse

btw I didnt go to see this!!

States of Mind and Tibets Secret Temple at The Welcome Trust

Poetry and Sound at The ICA

https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/poetry-and-sound

Holly Pester

and Betty Woodman - ceramics

other interesting vids...

early computer graphics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAneQGhILBg&index=37&list=PLDC0D6C1A61E299F3

jeff keen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3zeHdcC2uU

Electronic Superhighway at The Whitechapel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6be2IobJ-QQ&index=4&list=PLOE-RXR5Nc9iFnsAMHdSZBxQYuDLguZeh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UXwhIQsYXY&list=PLE9EhDid4V0Fx9k_KSKjo_02WfKyKvimW

Kibbo Kift at The Whitechapel Gallery

http://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/search/#!/results?pageSize=30&page=1&terms=kibbo%20kift&search=OR%3Btype%3Bobject

Danai Anesiadou - Safino Mappola at Wilkinsons & Sung Hwan Kim - Drawing From a Play

The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities

http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/museum-curiosities/viktor-wynd-museum/viktor-wynd-museum-curiosities-fine-art-natural-history-now-open/#.Vqp0eU_OtaU

Star Wars The Force Awakens at The Empire

Pop Art and Alexander Calder at The Tate Modern

Artists of interest:
Yokoo Tananori: Kiss kiss kiss
Marta Minujui: La Menesunda
Joe Tilson: He She It
Eulia Grau: Chicks and Cops
Evelyn Axel: Licensed Both Ways
Kelichi Tanaam: Crayon Angel
Nicola L: Little TV Woman, Red Coat