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EVILSON, Lewin Street, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7926.,  13 Sep 2012

The exhibition Bootleg brings together shameless bootlegs of works by artists including Steve McQueen, Bruce Nauman, Braco Dimitrijevic and Fischli & Weiss with cleverly disguised original pieces by various South African artists. Bootleg is about acts of citation and appropriation in contemporary art practice, as well as the decentralising of production in the global economy.

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Matt's Gallery, 42–44 Copperfield Road, London E3 4RR,  12 Sep 2012

Revolver presents works by ten artists made between 1983 and 2012 in discrete spaces in the gallery in a three-part series of short exhibitions of up to four artists.

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London,  12 Sep 2012

Lindsay Seers' current film and installation project for Artangel weaves a very particular set of mysteries, our writer Beverley Knowles went to meet her.

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Johannesburg Art Gallery, Joubert Park, South East Johannesburg 2000, South Africa,  11 Sep 2012

A series of independent yet intersecting exhibitions will be brought together under one roof to form a complete piece that explores the nature of belief and the dynamics of communication. The complete exhibition, entitled MMXII, is a solo display by James Webb. Review by Anthea Buys

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Frankfurter Kunstverein, Steinernes Haus am Römerberg, Markt 44, 60311 Frankfurt am Main,  10 Sep 2012

Nine years after the exhibition deutschemalereizweitausenddrei (2003), the Frankfurter Kunstverein is once again presenting an exhibition solely dedicated to painting. Painting of Uncertain Places includes the work of Tilo Baumgärtel (Leipzig), Susanne Kühn (Freiburg), Antje Majewski (Berlin), and Hannes Michanek (Frankfurt), who explore the imaginative potential of figurative painting. Review by Tim Walsh.

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Kunsthaus Bregenz Karl-Tizian-Platz Postbox 45 6900 Bregenz Austria ,  9 Sep 2012

The work of Ed Ruscha (born 1937), one of the best-known artists of his generation, eludes established categories. Assigned to pop art at the start of his career and later on to conceptual art, today it is clear that one of the qualities of Ed Ruscha’s work is its never confining itself to one style or medium. Artist books, drawings, prints, photography, and painting are used in parallel, for instance, together with materials as unconventional as gunpowder, fruit juice, coffee, and syrup in producing his drawings and prints.

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Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt Romerberg 60311 Frankfurt,  6 Sep 2012

In the summer of 2012, the SCHIRN and the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung turn their attention to the work of American artist Jeff Koons (born in 1955), an artist who has been setting trends in the art world since the 1980s. The two simultaneous exhibitions dedicated to Koons’s oeuvre deliberately separate his sculpture and painting, presenting each in its own context.

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Henry Moore Institute, The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AH,  6 Sep 2012

Ordinary Things takes Sarah Lucas’ (b. 1962) recent series of sculptures 'NUDS' (2009-) as a starting point, looking forward and backward across an artistic practice that has engaged with the possibilities of sculpture for over two decades. Text by Catherine Spencer.

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Museum Leuven, Vanderkelenstraat 28, 3000 Leuven,  4 Sep 2012

The unique exhibition gathers twenty-four wall drawings in color by the American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007). LeWitt’s wall drawings marked, from the late 1960s on, a revolutionary development in the history of contemporary art.

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Schirn Kunsthalle, Römerberg 6 60311 Frankfurt, Germany,  3 Sep 2012

Recording – labeling – playback. Frankfurt-based artist Michael Riedel has been investigating the issue of reproduction and repetition since his first actions for the legendary “Oskar-von-Miller-Strasse 16”, an art project he initiated at this Frankfurt address in 2000

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