Ludwig Museum, PALACE OF ARTS - Komor Marcell u. 1, Budapest, H-1095,  31 Jul 2012

A renowned figure of contemporary photography, Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989) was in his element in a domain defined by conventions and revolt, classicism and non-conformist cultures, where each picture serves as a document of hard-fought identities, as well as inciting and recording social and artistic debates.

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Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG,  31 Jul 2012

Bruce Lacey (born 1927) is one of Britain's great visionary artists. His lifetime pursuit of eccentric ‘making and doing’ has been a cathartic working-through of his experiences. This survey of a rich and diverse artistic production is a celebration of both his vibrant life (which includes working with Spike Milligan, The Beatles and Ken Russell) and his art which reveals telling links with the visual culture of the last 60 years.

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Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol BS1 6UX,  31 Jul 2012

Pull Everything Out brings together over 70 prints by the celebrated American artist and educator Corita Kent with contemporary work by Glasgow-based, Irish-Canadian artist Ciara Phillips. The exhibition draws out both artists’ commitment to collaboration, learning and experimentation and highlights graphic concerns shared between artists of different generations.

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ARTER, Istiklal Caddesi, No. 221 Beyoglu 34433 Istanbul,  31 Jul 2012

Berlinde De Bruyckere creates sculptures and drawings that refer to suffering and desire, by revealing the fragility of the body and the vulnerability of existence. From her conceptual and abstract sculptures to her figurative works, the diversity of her forms build a continuity through the frequent use of materials such as wax, wood, fabric, horse skin and hair. "The Wound" presents, alongside sculptures and drawings the artist realised since the 1990s, a number of new pieces, which she has produced especially for the exhibition in Istanbul.

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Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, Bankside, London, SE1 0LN,,  30 Jul 2012

Jerwood Makers Open is an exhibition of new commissions by five emerging makers working at the forefront of applied art will open at Jerwood Space in London. Jerwood Makers Open will bring together new works created by Nao Matsunaga, James Rigler, William Shannon, Louis Thompson and Silvia Weidenbach.

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museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien Museumsplatz,  29 Jul 2012

The winner of the Henkel Art.Award. 2011, David Ter-Oganyan (b. 1981 in Rostovon- Don, Russia) makes references to the tradition of modernism and its forms of abstraction in his paintings, objects, photographs and multimedia works. He at the same time combines these considerations with subversive, political and socio-critical content.

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Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA,  27 Jul 2012

This year's Pavilion will take visitors beneath the Serpentine's lawn to explore the hidden history of its previous Pavilions. Eleven columns characterising each past Pavilion and a twelfth column representing the current structure will support a floating platform roof 1.5 metres above ground.

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Five Years, Unit 66 6th Floor, Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London, E8 4QN,  26 Jul 2012

The photographic images of empty lecture theatres, hallways and seminar rooms in Mary MacLean’s Left of Place engage with new spatial representations and allude to the interface between knowledge and power using titles drawn from Foucault’s essays. Each incomplete image suggests that the world is not an unalterable state which crushes us, but a contradictory mixture of permanence and change.

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Stephen Friedman Gallery, 25-28 Old Burlington Street, London W1S 3AN,  25 Jul 2012

Stephen Friedman Gallery is delighted to announce its summer exhibition, Shapeshift, a group presentation in two gallery spaces. The exhibition brings together the work of four contemporary artists: Sarah Braman, Iran do Espirito Santo, Jim Hodges and Erin Shirreff. Although diverse in their formal undertakings, these four artists are united in the subtle, powerful and poetic ways in which they handle their chosen materials.

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Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX,  23 Jul 2012

Invisible Art brings together works from the past half century that explore ideas related to the invisible and the hidden.

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David Byrne: Get It Away from Artangel on Vimeo.

David Byrne stayed in A Room for London, a one-bedroom installation above the River Thames, from 17 - 19 February 2012. During this residency, he created Get It Away...

London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.

I brought along some field recording gear to use while I was staying in the lovely pod/room/boat. I went out during the day and recorded sounds that I thought might be useful and evocative. It turned out that most of the sounds - even the church organ in Southwark Cathedral - seemed to converge around a common rhythm. It's a bit too good to be true - that every large city should have its own rhythm, but here it is. I let the sounds dictate the groove, the tempo, and then I simply played along.

Here are where the sounds come from: Strawberry seller: Borough Market, Train: Southwark, Woman Evangelist: Spitalfields Market, Organ: Southwark Cathedral, Jackhammer: near Waterloo, Footsteps: mine, embankment, Thames waves: near Surrey water.

The videos are from all over. I took lots of photos around town while walking about, but I felt that moving images complemented London's groove a little better. DB

Peer, 97 & 99 Hoxton Street London, N1 6QL UK,  20 Jul 2012

On the three walls of PEER’s first gallery space Robert Holyhead displayed dozens of small watercolour drawings, all produced over the past few years. Unframed and carefully arranged on long narrow ledges to form a grid pattern, these works are presented as a visual abundance, a cornucopia of ideas, and a plethora of possibilities.

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Office Baroque Gallery, Lange Kievitstraat 48, 2018 Antwerpen, Belgium,  19 Jul 2012

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Jan Mot, rue Antoine Dansaertstraat 190 1000 Brussels, Belgium ,  18 Jul 2012

Entering Jan Mot gallery in the centre of Brussels today is like accepting to follow the laws of entropy rigorously produced in the works of Pierre Bismuth...

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